DELRAY BEACH, Va. IT service provider MicroTech announced that it won three separate contracts on the 10-year/$60 billion (ceiling) NASA SEWP VI Contract for federal IT solutions, one in each of the contract's three award categories.

BOSTON, Mass. Information technology solutions provider NOBLE garnered a spot on the 10-year/$60 billion (ceiling) NASA SEWP VI Contract for federal IT solutions in Category A, which includes IT communications, audiovisual products, and cloud-based integration services.

NASA WALLOPS FLIGHT FACILITY, Va. Four flat, disk-shaped satellites called DiskSats lifted off just after midnight on December 18 as part of a U.S. Space Force (USSF) and NASA experiment, intended to test a new small-satellite form factor designed for operations in very low Earth orbit (LEO).

NASA COLUMBIA SCIENTIFIC BALLOON FACILITY, New Mex. NASA recently launched a telescope designed and built by a team at University of Massachusetts Lowell (UMass Lowell) and the space agency that aims to identify planets beyond the solar system and find other objects in space that would otherwise go unnoticed because they are hidden by the glare of nearby stars.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. Katalyst Space Technologies has secured a contract from NASA to raise the orbit of the space agency's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory; the observatory's orbit is decaying faster than NASA had anticipated due to higher-than-expected atmopsheric drag.

CEDAR PARK, Tex. Space and defense technology provider Firefly Aerospace won a $176.7 million NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contract to deliver five NASA-sponsored payloads to the moon’s south pole in 2029.

HAMPTON, Virginia. NASA is testing a modular small satellite platform designed to accelerate deployment of spaceborne sensors and reduce mission costs, the agency announced in a statement.