General Dynamics Completes Updating NASA Satellite Ground Stations
General Dynamics‘ C4 Systems business unit has finished updating ground systems for three NASA tracking and data relay satellites that transmit signals from Earth-orbiting spacecraft to the ground. The TDRS satellites also connect White Sands ground station to the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station, the company says. Modifications and technology updates to [...]
Northrop Engineers Test Webb Telescope Sunshield Orientation; Jim Flynn Comments
June 28, 2012 No CommentNorthrop Grumman engineers recently subjected the James Webb Space Telescope’s sunshield to orientation measurement tests, the company announced Wednesday. The company holds a contract from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. to design and develop Webb’s sunshield, telescope and spacecraft. According to the company, the tennis court-sized sunshield is designed to cool the [...]
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