NASA has launched a full and open competition for interested vendors to design and build a next-generation lunar terrain vehicle capable of supporting crewed and uncrewed activities on the moon’s South Pole. The LTV Services contracting program covers the development, delivery and operations of the lunar surface rover for crewed missions begin...
NASA granted $98 million in Small Business Innovation Research funds to 92 companies with projects focused on mission areas such as climate science and space exploration. The awards were distributed among 112 proposals moving on to Phase II of the SBIR program, the agency said Wednesday. Among the SBIR Phase II grantees, 31 percent were...
Blue Origin has received a potential $3.4 billion contract from NASA to develop a human landing system for the Artemis V lunar mission. The company said Friday it will work with Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Boeing (NYSE: BA), Astrobotic, Draper and Honeybee Robotics to design, develop, test and demonstrate its Blue Moon lander under the...
Kathy Lueders, former associate administrator of NASA’s space operations mission directorate, has joined SpaceX as general manager with oversight of the Starship rocket program, CNBC reported Monday. She will directly report to Gwynne Shotwell, president and chief operating officer of SpaceX and a four-time Wash100 awardee, and work through th...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has received a five-year, $275.2 million contract to help the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration update and maintain ground infrastructure for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R Series constellation. The company will provide sustainment support to a system that receives data from G...
SpaceX Founder and CEO Elon Musk said the company expects to spend approximately $2 billion on the Starship rocket program in 2023 and might not need to seek outside funding to support the initiative, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. “To the best of my knowledge, we do not need to raise incremental funding for...
NASA has formed a consortium to equip the standard space mission life cycle with in-space servicing, assembly and manufacturing innovations. The Aerospace Corp. was tasked with operating the Consortium for Space Mobility and ISAM Capabilities to facilitate collaborative work among government agencies, companies, academic institutions and nonprofit e...
NASA has released a draft request for proposals for the second iteration of a potential eight-year contract to provide logistics support for the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. The planned MSFC Logistics Support Services II contract will be a total 8(a) small business set-aside program covering support across the areas of managem...
A joint venture between KBR (NYSE: KBR) and Intuitive Machines has booked a five-year, $719 million contract to engineer systems for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. Space & Technology Solutions will develop and test new space and scientific technologies under the third iteration of the Omnibus Multidiscipline Engineering Se...
A joint venture between Rothe Development and Ares Technical Services Corp. has secured a potential $814 million contract to help two NASA offices manage information technology and multimedia operations. The Rothe-Ares JV will provide support to the agency’s chief information officer and communications departments under the Enterprise Mu...
