Six companies have received seven contracts from NASA to build inflatable aerodynamic decelerator systems for spacecraft entry, descent and landing operations and aerocapture missions. The vendors will compete for task orders to design, produce and test materials, subassemblies, components, flight articles, engineering development units and concept ...
NASA is inviting potential offerors to review and give feedback on a planned acquisition program for Earth observation data from commercial small satellites. The space agency wants to procure smallsat data products and services through a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract worth potentially $476 million over five years. ...
Engineering consulting company ERC has secured a potential five-year, $145 million contract that covers laboratory support services and operations at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Under the LASSO II award, ERC will operate and maintain developmental shops, laboratories and test facilities that support the KSC Center Engineering, Safety and Oper...
Space technology developer Intuitive Machines has agreed to go public as part of a planned merger with New York-based blank check company Inflection Point Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: IPAX). The combined entity will list securities on the Nasdaq upon completion of the deal and estimates it will exceed $1 billion in pro forma equity value, Intuitive...
NASA has started soliciting proposals for a program to build and demonstrate astronaut moon landers for future Artemis lunar missions. The space agency said Saturday it expects the Human Landing System Sustaining Lunar Development program to create the way for companies to offer recurring lunar landing services beyond the Artemis III mission. “Wor...
The satellite communications industry — a once-sleepy sector — is indisputably booming right now. With the ubiquity of launch, the skyrocketing growth of commercial infrastructure in space, the exponentially increasing importance of resilient communications and the creeping volatility of the space domain, satellite networks are in the spotlight ...
A Teledyne Technologies (NYSE: TDY) subsidiary has been awarded a potential $681.5 million contract from NASA to provide ground systems and operations services to Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Teledyne Brown Engineering will support a variety of payload and mission operations, including NASA’s Space Launch System rocket,...
Axiom Space has won a $228.5 million task order from NASA to produce next generation spacesuits for astronauts taking part in the space agency’s Artemis III human lunar spaceflight mission. In addition to Axiom developing Artemis spacesuit and supporting systems, NASA said Thursday the company is tasked to hold a demonstration of the technolog...
NASA has asked industry stakeholders to comment on a draft request for proposals for a potential eight-year, $190 million contract to provide enterprise IT services for the office of chief information technology. The NASA’s Consolidated Applications and Platform Services program is a hybrid performance-based indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quan...
SpaceX has secured a potential eight-year, $1.4 billion contract modification to perform five more missions for NASA to transport crews to the International Space Station. The modification to the Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contract brings the total contact value with SpaceX to approximately $4.93 billion and covers ground, launch, in-...
