ATK Helps NASA Develop, Test Green Propulsion Tech; Cary Ralston Comments
ATK has developed a thruster technology for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center that is intended to help store and handle materials, as well as process the launch site. The company completed the first U.S.-based tests of the high performance green propulsion technology after previously evaluating the system’s fidelity and operability in space at its facility [...]
ITT Exelis Tests NOAA Weather Imager in Space-Like Conditions; Eric Webster Comments
May 17, 2013 No Comment
ITT Exelis has completed tests on an advanced baseline imager to be used for the new series of geostationary operational environmental satellites for NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. During the test, the ABI was exposed to extreme cold and hot temperatures, mimicking space-like conditions, according to an Exelis statement. Exelis weather systems [...]
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NASA, Google and the Universities Space Research Association have acquired a quantum computer from science company D-Wave with the goal of advancing machine learning and solving computer science problems. USRA intends for D-Wave Two to be available to the wider U.S. academic community, D-Wave said Thursday. Lockheed Martin acquired an earlier version of a D-Wave quantum [...]
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Northrop Grumman has chosen Park Electrochemical’s patented composite strut to use for the James Webb Space Telescope, intended to support missions for three space agencies including NASA. JWST is an infrared space telescope developed for NASA, European Space Agency and Canadian Space Agency to collaborate for projects, Park Electrochemical said Wednesday. Northrop is the prime [...]
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Exelis to Build Antennas for NASA Atmosphere Study Program; Paul Eyring Comments
May 2, 2013 No CommentITT Exelis has won a contract to develop antennas for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to use for multinational atmospheric studies. Exelis will provide 25 multiband global navigation satellite systems for studies on meteorology, ionospheric research, climatology and space weather, Exelis said Thursday. Paul Eyring, Exelis senior director of programs for antennas, sensors and microelectronics, said the [...]
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Raytheon, RIT Partner to Build NASA Infrared Detectors; Donald Figer Comments
April 29, 2013 No Comment
Raytheon and Rochester Institute of Technology are partnering to make a new class of infrared detectors for NASA, Laser World Focus reported Friday. John Wallace writes RIT’s center for detectors won a $1.1 million contract to design, produce and test detectors that are grown on silicon wafer substrates, a process developed by Raytheon. Raytheon’s vision systems [...]
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Orbital Antares Rocket Carries Phone Satellites for NASA; Michael Gazarik Comments
April 25, 2013 No Comment
Orbital Science Corp.’s Antares rocket carried three smartphone satellites into space Sunday during its maiden flight from NASA’s Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia. All three PhoneSats have already sent signals to several ground stations on Earth and the Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. will track the satellites over the next two weeks, [...]
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A NASA spacecraft carrying a Lockheed Martin-made sun-observing instrument has arrived at its launch site at the Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. and will go into space at a date not before May 28. The interface region imaging spectrograph program aims to study energy and plasma movement near the sun’s surface and help scientists predict [...]
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Boeing and its U.S. government partners have completed an eight-month evaluation phase for a new unmanned demonstration research aircraft the company has designed. The X-38C started flight testing in August 2012 and has flown 30 tests at NASA‘s Dryden Flight Research Center for the Blended Wing Body project, Boeing said Friday. NASA and the U.S. [...]
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ITT Exelis and NASA have completed flight tests on a laser system intended to collect atmospheric carbon dioxide data for developing climate models. A team from the NASA Langley Research Center mounted the Exelis Multifunctional Fiber Laser LIDAR on a DC-8 aircraft and then measured carbon dioxide concentrations over different surfaces and conditions during the tests, [...]
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