Boeing (NYSE: BA) and NASA have closed on a $3.2 billion contract for the production of core and upper stages to power Space Launch System rockets that will support future lunar exploration missions. The aerospace and defense company will use the funds to manufacture up to 10 SLS core stages for Artemis III and IV,...
A Chenega subsidiary has booked a potential $198 million contract to provide protective services at NASA facilities located in the eastern region. Chenega Global Protection will work to secure information, communication and physical assets, operations and personnel at NASA’s Washington headquarters as part of the indefinite-delivery/indefinite...
BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT) has commenced the production of a new nuclear fuel product that will power the Department of Defense’s deployable microreactor and support NASA’s space exploration initiatives. The company said Wednesday it will manufacture a core for the Project Pele microreactor, produce TRISO fuel for additional reactors ...
Jacobs (NYSE: J) has secured a potential five-year, $92.5 million contract to perform architecture and engineering work for NASA’s environmental cleanup efforts at a former rocket engine and nuclear reactor test site in Ventura County, California. The company will support the Santa Susana Field Laboratory across environmental due diligence and...
NASA has awarded Austin-based technology company ICON a $57.2 million contract to fund the development of systems intended to build lunar surface infrastructure. ICON will further develop its Olympus construction platform under phase three of NASA’s dual-use Small Business Innovation Research contract with the U.S. Air Force, the space agency ...
Phantom Space has received task orders under NASA’s Venture-class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare contract vehicle to send research nanosatellites into space with the use of a company-designed launch vehicle beginning in 2024. The company’s Daytona rocket will carry the payloads on four CubeSat Launch Initiative missions, the agen...
Rocket Lab (Nasdaq: RKLB) will help NASA send four small satellites to low-Earth orbit for a storm observation initiative via two Electron launch missions under the Venture-class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare contract vehicle. The Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation Structure and Storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats mis...
MM Technologies has won a $553.7 million contract from NASA to provide financial support and related services at several research centers of the space agency nationwide. The Huntsville, Alabama-located small business will support missions, programs, projects and organizational offices at Armstrong Flight Research Center, Ames Research Center, ...
Air Products and Chemicals will supply 33 million liters of liquid helium and lease six proprietary liquid helium pumps to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida under a potential $1.07 billion contract. NASA will use the commodity to support the International Space Station program, the Space Launch System and other projects at the Kennedy Spa...
NASA has started soliciting information on potential vendors that could meet the requirements of the third iteration of the Safety and Mission Assurance Engineering Contract. The agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston expects SMAEC III to be a single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to support the development of safety mis...
