Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
Boeing’s Spectrolab subsidiary will provide 3,360 NeXt Triple Junction solar cells for a NASA spacecraft that will be used for the agency’s Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission. NASA’s SWOT initiative is expected to launch this month to investigate the ocean’s surface topography and cycle in order to gain insights that could help communities prepare for […] More
Boeing’s Spectrolab subsidiary will produce, test and integrate approximately 4,000 NeXt Triple Junction Prime solar cells for a NASA space telescope named after the agency’s first chief astronomer, Nancy Grace Roman. NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is expected to launch no later than May 2027 to look for distant planets and investigate the expansion of the […] More
Lockheed Martin has completed development work on a modular solar array designed for integration with its LM 2100 satellite bus platform. The company’s Multi-mission Modular Solar Array works to generate 50 percent more energy and is designed to be 30 percent lighter than other rigid solar array designs, Lockheed said Tuesday. Wahid Azizpor, manufacturing director at Lockheed’s […] More
PARC, a Xerox company, will develop a prototype micro-photovoltaic cell printer for the Energy Department as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy‘s Micro-scale Optimized Solar-cell Arrays with Integrated Concentration program. Xerox said Wednesday the program aims to facilitate the high-volume, economical production of micro-PV cell arrays. The company added that PARC will utilize digital xerographic assembly to build a printer that […] More
Tony Mueller, formerly director of spacecraft design and bus products at Boeing, has been appointed as president of the company’s subsidiary Spectrolab. He succeeds Troy Dawson, who takes the vice president and program manager role at the C-17 Globemaster III integrated sustainment program within Boeing’s global services and support business unit, Boeing said Friday. “Tony […] More
Lockheed Martin has agreed to incorporate EMCORE’s multi-junction solar cell assemblies into a satellite program. EMCORE will supply its Coverglass interconnected cells that are based on the ZTJ triple-junction solar cells technology for the Lockheed-run program, EMCORE said Wednesday. “We are very pleased to enter into this next phase of our relationship and look forward […] More
