ARLINGTON, Va. The James Webb Space Telescope Flight Operations Subsystem Development Team at Raytheon Technologies was recently recognized with a NASA Group Achievement Award for its contributions in developing the Webb Flight Operations Subsystem (FOS).

CHATSWORTH, Calif.  Aitech’s NVIDIA-based, space-characterized S-A1760 Venus artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer became the first use of GPGPU [general-purpose graphics processing unit] technology in space when it went aloft with the successful launch and re-entry of NASA’s Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) mission, which occurred in November 2022, the company reported. 

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. Aircraft-safety firm Reliable Robotics teamed with NASA to run flight tests aimed at substantiating the use of existing Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) primary surveillance radar (PSR) data to improve the safety of the National Airspace System (NAS), which the testers needed to better understand how existing radar infrastructure can be used for detect-and-avoid (DAA) systems for uncrewed aircraft systems (UASs).

LAFAYETTE, Colo. Blue Canyon Technologies --a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies that manufactures small satellites and provides mission services -- has been tapped to design and manufacture three microsatellites to support NASA’s Investigation of Convective Updrafts (INCUS) mission.

WASHINGTON.  NASA has established a new office called the "Moon to Mars Program Office" to further its human exploration activities on the moon and to Mars. 

HAMPTON, Va. Uncrewed-systems maker Advanced Aircraft Company (AAC) has won a contract from NASA to design and build tilt-wing prototype uncrewed aerial systems (UASs) according to NASA specifications. 

WASHINGTON. NASA’s Orion spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean west of Baja California on Sunday, December 11, following an historic mission, during which it traveled more than 1.4 million miles on a path around the moon and carried out its Artemis I flight test.