Tag: Systima Technologies
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Milestone moon mission is getting a push from Pacific Northwest tech
Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and Brent Urke, program manager for L3Harris’ facility in Redmond, Wash., check out a model of the Orion spaceship that’s due to take four astronauts around the moon as early as this week. Cantwell is pointing to the model’s set of eight R-4D thrusters. An actual R-4D thruster, manufactured in Redmond,…
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Karman Systems acquires Systima to target hypersonic and space technology
Systima Technologies moved into its current headquarters in Mukilteo, Wash., last year. (Systima Photo) Mukilteo, Wash.-based Systima Technologies has been acquired by Karman Missile & Space Systems as part of Karman’s push into the markets for space and hypersonic system infrastructure. Karman, headquartered in Los Angeles, was created just in the past year with backing…
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Systima expands facilities and workforce for hypersonic and weapon systems development
Systima Technologies was a subcontractor on the Hypersonic International Flight Research Experimentation Program, or HIFiRE, in 2012. (AFRL Photo) Kirkland, Wash.-based Systima Technologies is taking on more employees and real estate to work on Defense Department contracts related to hypersonic and long-range weapon systems. The 18-year-old company specializes in high-performance composite structures, shrouds and payload…
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Systima wins a contract to supply hatch mechanisms for NASA’s Orion spaceship
Astronauts rehearse crew egress procedures using an Orion test model in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Texas in July 2017. (NASA Photo) Systima Technologies says it’s been awarded a contract from Lockheed Martin Space Systems to provide pyrotechnically actuated hatch mechanisms for NASA’s Orion deep-space crew capsule. The mechanisms will be part…