Tag: Ground
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Northrop Grumman Completes Critical Design Review for Missile Warning Ground Station
Northrop Grumman Corporation successfully completed a Critical Design Review (CDR) for Relay Ground Station-Asia (RGS-A) for a contract with the U.S. Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific on behalf of the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command to support the operation of legacy and future missile-warning satellites. The CDR confirms Northrop Grumman’s ability to transform…
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Lockheed Martin Selects Terran Orbital to Build Satellite Buses for SDA’s T2TL Beta Constellation
Lockheed Martin has awarded Terran Orbital Corporation a contract to build 36 satellite buses for the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tranche 2 Transport Layer (T2TL) Beta constellation. Terran Orbital will deliver the buses to Lockheed Martin, which will conduct payload integration and jointly operate the satellites with SDA. SDA’s T2TL Beta constellation will advance the…
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Airbus and Northrop Grumman Sign MoU to Advance UK’s SKYNET Military SATCOM Program
Airbus and United States-headquartered Defense prime Northrop Grumman have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop and foster a strategic partnership in military satellite communications for the UK’s future wideband SKYNET military satellite communications program. The agreement between the two leading European and United States-based defense and space firms will bring…
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CACI Secures NASA Contract for Spaceflight Systems, Simulation and Software Technology
CACI International announced that it has been awarded a four-year single-award, indefinite delivery indefinite quantity expertise contract worth up to $150 million to continue its support of spaceflight systems, simulation, and software for NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC). The program provides advanced aerospace engineering for crewed spacecraft systems, development of simulation and Virtual Reality (VR)…
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NASA Awards NOAA’s QuickSounder Spacecraft Contract to Southwest Research Institute
NASA, on behalf of NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), has awarded a delivery order under the Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition IV (Rapid-IV) contract to Southwest Research Institute of San Antonio for the QuickSounder spacecraft. The firm-fixed-price delivery order covers all phases of QuickSounder’s operations including spacecraft development, integration of NOAA’s Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder Engineering…
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Riverside Research Awards Subcontract to Spire for the USSF Space Domain Awareness Program
Spire Global, a global provider of space-based data, analytics, and space services, announced it was awarded a subcontract by Riverside Research, an advanced research nonprofit, to provide star tracker imagery as part of the Data Exploitation and Enhanced Processing for Space Domain Awareness (DEEP-SDA) project on behalf of the United States Space Force (USSF). The…
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SES Space & Defense Awarded Low Earth Orbit IDIQ Contract from U.S. Department of Defense
SES Space & Defense, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SES, has been awarded a five-year, Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract for proliferated Low Earth Orbit (PLEO) satellite-based services (SBS). The IDIQ vehicle was awarded through the Defense Information Systems Agency’s (DISA) Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization (DITCO) by the U.S. Space Force. Under the multi-award…
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L3Harris Secures Contracts to Update DoD’s Space Domain Awareness Mission
L3Harris Technologies received two contracts worth up to $134 million to update portions of the Department of Defense’s (DoD) space domain awareness mission. The Ground Based Optical Sensor System (GBOSS) and Space Fence Sustainment (Option Year 4) contracts support the U.S. Space Force’s Maintenance of Space Situational Awareness Integrated Capabilities (MOSSAIC) program. Under the GBOSS…
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RFA, Yuri, and ATMOS Partner to Launch World’s First Microgravity Service for Biotech R&D
Three pioneering German NewSpace companies, Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA), Yuri, and ATMOS Space Cargo (ATMOS) announced their new partnership and launch of their joint end-to-end service for microgravity life science research and product development at this year’s edition of Weltraumkongress in Berlin, Germany. This holistic solution represents an unprecedented and flexible alternative to the ISS…
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NASA Successfully Conducts First Hot Fire of New RS-25 Certification Test Series for SLS Rocket
NASA conducted the first hot fire of a new RS-25 test series on Oct. 17, beginning the final round of certification testing ahead of production of an updated set of engines for the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket. The engines will help power future Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond. Operators fired the RS-25…