Guardians of Honor has received a potential five-year, $290 million contract from NASA to offer STEM products and services aimed at improving STEM literacy and immersing underrepresented and underserved students in the space agency’s research work. The single-award NASA Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics contract includes awards and...
NASA expects the International Space Station to conclude operations in late 2030 and is seeking information from potential industry sources of spacecraft that will work to deorbit the government-funded laboratory. A request for information posted Friday on SAM.gov says the deorbit vehicle should attach to the Node 2 Forward port one year before the ...
Lunar lander maker Astrobotic Technology has agreed to make a stalking-horse offer for “substantially all” of the assets of Masten Space Systems, SpaceNews reported Tuesday. Astrobotic’s $4.2 million bid for Masten’s assets includes a SpaceX launch credit valued at approximately $14 million and the agreement does not preclude Masten from sol...
Elizabeth Robertson, formerly a program manager of Dynetics, has been elevated to a vice president role at the Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) subsidiary, she announced Sunday in a LinkedIn post. Robertson has managed Dynetics’ Enduring Shield program since December 2021. The Huntsville, Alabama-based business won a $237 million contract last year to buil...
NASA has issued a presolicitation notice on its plan to adopt a single services contracting approach for long-term hardware production and operations of the Space Launch System. The space agency said Wednesday it intends to award the single Exploration Production and Operations Contract to Deep Space Transport, a joint venture between Boeing (NYSE: ...
The space divisions of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) have received 10-month contracts to study spacecraft designs for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Extended Observations program with NASA. NASA awarded $5 million to each contractor to conduct concept development and technology...
SpaceX has been selected to deploy a NASA observatory in October 2026 to support infrared astrophysics research under a potential $255 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The NASA Launch Services II contract covers launch and other mission-related costs for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, the agency said Wednesday. The o...
KBR (NYSE: KBR) is part of an Axiom Space-led industry team that will produce an astronaut spacesuit and spacewalk systems for NASA under a potential $3.5 billion milestone-based contract awarded in June. Houston-based KBR said Wednesday it will support Axiom Space in manufacturing design, test and verification efforts through the agency&#...
NASA is looking to procure communications and navigation services from the private sector in support of crewed and robotic spacecraft operations that extend as far as 2 million kilometers from Earth’s surface. The agency released a draft solicitation notice Wednesday asking potential offerors for comment on its draft solicitation for Near Spac...
Jacobs (NYSE: J) has won a potential 10-year, $3.9 billion contract to provide engineering and scientific products and technical services to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Texas. The JETS II contract also includes support for the planetary mission, physical science research and astromaterial curation functions under the center’s Astromateria...
