Government/Military

Aerojet Rocketdyne entered into a Space Act Agreement with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center to design and manufacture a lightweight rocket engine thrust chamber assembly using additive manufacturing processes and materials....

Raytheon will develop new space systems and flight software, and provide engineering, training, and operations support for NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, managed by Caltech, under a five-year, $150 million contract. The...

The Jason-2/Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM), the third in a U.S.-European series of satellite missions designed to measure sea surface height, successfully ended its science mission on Oct. 1. NASA...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is on track to announce a new commercial partner for its robotic servicing payload by the end of the year, with plans to have...

Aerojet Rocketdyne was awarded a contract worth up to nearly $19 million by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to mature Axial Upper Stage (AUS) component technologies and analytical tools...

In July this year, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) put out a report looking at how to create a safer aviation environment. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) looked at...

Iridium Communications was awarded a five year, Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency on behalf of the U.S. Air Force Space Command (AFSpC) with potential...

Ball Aerospace delivered the Operational Land Imager 2 (OLI-2) for Landsat 9, completing development of the instrument on schedule and under budget. Ball will continue to support instrument integration and...

Southwest Research Institute-led The Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission entered Phase B, which marks the transition from concept study to preliminary flight design. The mission is...

KBR was awarded two contract modifications totaling almost $40 million to upgrade remote tracking stations in the Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN). The U.S. Air Force Space Command (AFSC)...