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NASA sounding rocket mission tests new technologies, sensors - News
May 16, 2017
NASA WALLOPS FLIGHT FACILITY, Va. A sounding rocket launch from NASA?s Wallops Flight Facility during the early morning hours of May 16 is intended to provide the flight testing needed for 24 experiments and new technologies.
Unmanned
NASA chooses ASU ShadowCam to map moon's shadowed regions - News
May 10, 2017
TEMPE, Ariz. NASA has selected an instrument developed by a faculty member at Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration and Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS) to map the terrain and search for ice deposits in the moon's permanantly shadowed regions (PSRs).
Unmanned
Air Force X-37B space plane lands after record-breaking 718 days in orbit - News
May 08, 2017
NASA KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. The Air Force X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle mission 4 (OTV-4) unmanned, reusable space plane landed at NASA?s Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility on May 7, 2017, after an unprecedented 718 days on-mission.
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45th Space Wing supports SpaceX launch, retrieval of booster - News
May 02, 2017
CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla. The U.S. Air Force?s 45th Space Wing supported SpaceX?s successful May 1 launch of the NROL-76 spacecraft aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 39A at NASA?s Kennedy Space Center.
Cyber
Vencore gains prime position on $98 million NGA contract - News
April 26, 2017
CHANTILLY, Va. Systems engineering and integration company Vencore announced that it has won a prime position on the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Multi-Intelligence Analytical and Collection Support Services (MACSS) program. NGA serves as both a combat support agency and an intelligence agency of the U.S. government; it has as its primary mission collecting, analyzing, and distributing geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) in support of national security.
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Astrotech Space Operations wins NASA's commercial payload processing contract - News
April 14, 2017
TITUSVILLE, Fla. Officials at NASA selected Astrotech Space Operations, LLC, located at Titusville, Florida, to provide commercial payload processing services for agency missions launching from NASA?s Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Comms
NASA embarks upon laser-communications system for spacecraft - News
April 03, 2017
NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, Md. NASA has launched a program aimed at developing a laser communications system for its Orion spacecraft, the vehicle the agency intends to use for its future manned missions to deep space.
