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Raytheon to Begin GPS OCX Monitor Station Receiver Installation in August; Dave Wajsgras Quoted
Raytheon will begin installing worldwide the GPS Next-Generation Operational Control System’s monitor station receivers in August. “The modernized receivers give GPS OCX the ability to receive and decrypt all GPS III military and civil signals, a critical capability the current system doesn't have," Dave Wajsgras, president of Raytheon’s intelligence, information and services segment, said in a statement published Monday.
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Aerojet Rocketdyne Tests Reaction Control Thruster for Orion Crew Capsule; Eileen Drake Quoted
Aerojet Rocketdyne has concluded a test of a thruster system for NASA’s Orion spacecraft that will launch aboard the Space Launch System rocket as part of Exploration Mission-1. The company said Monday it conducted the qualification test at its Redmond, Wash.-based facility to demonstrate the reaction control system’s capability to withstand shock and vibration as […] More
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Bill Sullivan: Raytheon Eyes 2019 Completion for GPS OCX Software Dev’t
Bill Sullivan, a vice president and OCX program manager at Raytheon, has said the company expects software development work on a ground-based operational control system for the U.S. Air Force’s GPS III satellites to conclude in 2019, SpaceNews reported Tuesday. Sullivan said the Raytheon-built OCX system, which is slated for completion in June 2021, adopts “layered security†[…] More
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Orbital ATK Conducts SLS Rocket Booster Avionics Qualification Test
Orbital ATK has finished a qualification test on the avionics system of solid rocket boosters that the company is producing for NASA‘s Space Launch System. The test series validated the avionics system’s performance in expected and abnormal conditions as well as the platform’s capacity to start booster ignition, control the booster during flight and terminate the flight, […] More
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Boeing Adds 6 Months to NASA Commercial Crew Test, Development Phase; John Mulholland Comments
Boeing has revised the schedule for its Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contract with NASAÂ and delayed the program for another six months as the company works to address production issues on the CST-100 spacecraft, Aviation Week reported Monday. Guy Norris writes the company expects to send the first batch of NASA astronauts to the International Space […] More
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NASA Performs Qualification Tests on SLS Rocket, Orion Spacecraft With Industry Team
NASA has conducted a series of tests with Orbital ATK, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Aerojet Rocketdyne to evaluate the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System rocket that the agency plans to launch in 2018 as part of an unmanned space exploration mission. Lockheed’s engineering teams have completed proof pressure tests on the Orion crew […] More
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Reports: Lockheed Delays 1st Air Force GPS III Satellite Delivery to December Due to Navigation Payload Issue
Lockheed Martin has delayed the delivery of the first satellite for the U.S. Air Force’s GPS III program from August to December after the company detected a problem with the satellite’s navigation payload, Space News reported Wednesday. “During our rigorous navigation payload testing, we discovered a capacitor type on the payload that had not been […] More
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Army Completes Qualification Tests on DRS-Built Target Detection Tool
The U.S. Army has concluded a series of qualification tests on a DRS Technologies-built target acquisition system. The service branch performed the tests on DRS’ Improved Bradley Acquisition Subsystem Block 2 platform at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama in January, DRS said Wednesday. DRS’ infrared sensors and systems business unit developed the IBAS Block 2 system. IBAS […] More
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Orbital ATK Delivers Webb Telescope Fuel, Oxidizer Tanks to Northrop
Orbital ATK has delivered the fuel and oxidizer tanks for NASA‘s James Webb Space Telescope to prime contractor Northrop Grumman after a series of qualification tests on the tanks’ survivability. The tanks are built to supply propulsion for the Webb telescope and be integrated into the observatory, Orbital ATK said Tuesday. The company designed and manufactured the tanks’ Propellant […] More
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Northrop Completes Qualification Tests on 1 Mbit Memory Device for Space Missions
Northrop Grumman has performed qualification tests on its radiation-hardened W28C0108 electrically erasable programmable read-only memory device that is used in space to store mission data. The company said Monday the EEPROM semiconductor device has 1-megabit memory, operates across the military temperature range and features latch-up immunity functions for space operations. Qualification tests included heavy ion latch-up tests and dynamic life […] More
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ATK, NASA Put Orion’s Launch Abort Motor Igniter Through Qualification Test; Charlie Precourt Comments
ATK and NASA have conducted a static test on the Orion crew transport spacecraft’s launch abort motor igniter at the company’s facility in Promontory, Utah as the company seeks to move toward production. The igniter is part of Orion’s Launch Abort System and designed to activate the abort motor for the crew module in case of any problems during […] More