Mission Space Acquisition, a blank check company based in Cape Canaveral, Florida, intends to raise $100 million through an initial public offering, MarketWatch reported Thursday. The special purpose acquisition company disclosed its IPO plans in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Wednesday. The newly incorporated SPAC in the Cayman Islands...
Tyto Athene, a portfolio company of Washington, D.C.-based private investment firm Arlington Capital Partners, has closed its purchase of software development firm Microtel for an undisclosed sum as part of a push to broaden its customer relationships and space system capabilities. Microtel is a systems engineering firm that develops mission-critica...
NASA has awarded Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost and Venturi Astrolab positions on a potential $4.6 billion contract to develop a lunar terrain vehicle for the space agency’s Artemis moon exploration program. The agency said Wednesday it plans to procure the LTV as a service from industry through the Lunar Terrain Vehicle Services program, a mil...
Aerostar International, a part of TCOM’s portfolio of aerospace and defense companies, has purchased Near Space for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to broaden its set of products and services, advance innovation and expand its presence in the aerospace and defense sector. Near Space performs high-altitude flight testing, runs the Johnson Nea...
NASA has begun seeking proposals for a potential $75 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covering aerospace research, technology and simulation support services. The ARTS contract has an ordering period of five years and provides technical services to operate, maintain and upgrade the simulation and persistent software facilitie...
Bastion Technologies has secured a five-year, $125.4 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide environmental, safety, health and mission assurance services to NASA’s Glenn Research Center and its remote campus in Sandusky, Ohio. The company will work with subcontractors Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and Herndon Solutions Group ...
The United States is in the midst of a global race to dominate the space domain, and to stay ahead, the federal government must accelerate its efforts to expand and deepen its space capabilities. U.S. officials have heavily emphasized the importance of collaboration in building and maintaining a competitive advantage in space, and contracts are...
NASA has started soliciting proposals as part of the on-ramp process for a potential five-year, $476 million contract to acquire Earth observation data derived from constellations of small satellites operated by commercial entities. The space agency will conduct the on-ramping process for the Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition indefinite-delivery/...
Sierra Lobo won the $282.1 million Space Flight Systems Development and Operations Contract III to support NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. NASA said Thursday that the company will deliver services ranging from space flight hardware design to software development and technology testing and demonstration. The cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefini...
The Potomac Officers Club’s symposium on all things space domain is fast-approaching: the 5th Annual Space Summit will be held on March 5 at the Hilton-McLean in Virginia. At the event, the U.S. government’s most formidable space agency leaders will give the audience exclusive insight into where their priorities lie for the year ahead, which tr...
