Lt. Gen. Philip Garrant, commander of the Space Systems Command, highlighted the importance of industry partnerships in achieving the command’s goals in a speech at an event hosted by the Los Angeles chapter of the Air & Space Forces Association. Garrant stressed the need to combine industry expertise with a skilled workforce to deliver robust […]
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems will support the Space Systems Command in developing a mesh laser communication network for spacecraft in beyond low Earth orbit. In a press statement released Sunday, GA-EMS announced that it had secured a contract for Phase 1 of the Enterprise Space Terminal program. Under the deal, the vendor will work on […]
NASA has integrated eight cubesats from the CubeSat Launch Initiative into a Firefly Aerospace deployment hardware ahead of its launch in early summer 2024. Among the cubesats to form part of the mission are the University of Arizona’s CatSat, the MESAT1 from the University of Maine and the NASA Ames Research Center’s TechEdSat-11. After their […]
NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of State Office of Space Affairs recently held the fifth biennial Planetary Defense Interagency Tabletop Exercise to enhance preparedness for potential asteroid threats, NASA said. Held at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, the exercise simulated a hypothetical scenario where an asteroid […]
GE Aerospace has secured a NASA contract for Phase 2 of the Hybrid Thermally Efficient Core project, allowing it to continue its progress on developing an aircraft engine core demonstrator. The aircraft engine supplier will support the U.S. space agency’s development of a hybrid electric demonstrator engine that will integrate electric motors and generators in […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Redwire a contract to lead the development of a satellite equipped with novel electric propulsion systems for a demonstration in very low Earth orbit under the Otter program. The spacecraft will be based on the SabreSat VLEO satellite design, a highly flexible orbital drone that can support […]
Mississippi-based Vertex Aerospace has secured a multiyear contract to oversee operations at NASA’s Sonny Carter Training Facility, a critical component of astronaut training at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Vertex Aerospace will provide technical, managerial and administrative support to ensure the ongoing functionality and reliability of the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory’s integrated hardware and software […]
Four companies will support the Space Systems Command as it develops laser communication terminal prototypes under the initial phase of the Enterprise Space Terminal project. Under the $100 program, the U.S. Space Force selected Blue Origin, CACI International, General Atomics and Viasat as eligible vendors to compete for task orders related to designing and delivering […]
Blue Origin, SpaceX and United Launch Alliance will be participating in the U.S. Space Force’s effort to develop the National Security Space Launch initiative. From 2025 to 2029, the three contractors will be competing for task orders valued at up to $5.6 billion under NSSL Phase 3, handling the government’s national security launches, which will […]
Plus3 IT Systems has announced its role as Parson’s subcontractor on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Traffic Coordination System for Space program. The contract entails providing system integration and cloud management services as well as implementing a secure and scalable cloud-based system for TraCSS, Plus3 IT said. The system will be responsible for ingesting, […]
