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Aeyon Joint Venture Awarded $516.9 Million Financial Support IDIQ Contract from NASA

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목요일, 12월 15, 2022
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Aeyon today announced its joint venture, MM Technologies LLC (MMT) was awarded the NASA Financial Support Services (NFSS) contract.

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  • Aeyon today announced its joint venture, MM Technologies LLC (MMT) was awarded the NASA Financial Support Services (NFSS) contract.
  • This performance-based, single-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract with firm-fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed-fee task orders has a maximum potential IDIQ value of $516.9 million.
  • Operating as an Aeyon subsidiary, MMT is an SBA-approved Mentor-Protg Joint Venture between MDW Associates (MDW) and Manufacturing Technical Solutions (an Aeyon company) focused on sound financial stewardship, financial management analysis, and data analytics and report automation.
  • Under the NFSS contract, Aeyon will provide financial management consulting services in support of NASAs missions, programs and projects.

NASA's Retired SOFIA Aircraft Finds New Home at Arizona Museum

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월요일, 12월 12, 2022
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA's now-retired Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) aircraft will find a permanent home in the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona.

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  • WASHINGTON, Dec. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA's now-retired Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) aircraft will find a permanent home in the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona.
  • It will land in Tucson at the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base before ultimately arriving at the Air & Space Museum.
  • "We are excited SOFIA will continue to engage a diverse new generation of scientists, engineers, and explorers."
  • The SOFIA aircraft is a Boeing 747SP jetliner modified to carry a reflecting telescope.

NASA to Utilize Commercially Available TerraPoiNT Network in SF Bay Area to Further Urban Air Mobility Development

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화요일, 12월 6, 2022
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NextNav (Nasdaq: NN), a leader in next generation GPS, today announced that it has been selected by NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley to deliver PNT services for its urban drone program. Utilizing NextNav's commercially deployed TerraPoiNT network in the San Francisco Bay area, NASA Ames will capture in-flight horizontal and vertical location data to validate drone flight safety at its Mountain View, California, facility.

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  • Utilizing NextNav's commercially deployed TerraPoiNT network in the San Francisco Bay area,NASA Ames will capture in-flight horizontal and vertical location data to validate drone flight safety at its Mountain View, California, facility.
  • The agreement builds on an existing collaboration between NextNav and NASA, in which NASA leverages the TerraPoiNT network to support its CERTAIN facilities at its Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.
  • NextNav's commercial grade TerraPoiNT network in the San Francisco Bay Area will be leveraged by NASA Ames to conduct tests on drone flights within their Urban Air Mobility program.
  • "We are excited to see NASA expand its footprint from the initial use of our TerraPoiNT network in Virginia to its Ames facility in Mountain View, California, leveraging our Bay Area deployment.

No Phosphine on Venus-According to SOFIA Observations

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화요일, 11월 29, 2022
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Its observations did not find phosphine in Venus's atmosphere which is a potential biomarker and could be an indicator of organic matter, or life.

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  • Its observations did not find phosphine in Venus's atmosphere which is a potential biomarker and could be an indicator of organic matter, or life.
  • Venus is considered Earth's twin in many ways, but, thanks to SOFIA, the one difference now seems clearer: Unlike Earth, Venus does not have any obvious phosphine.
  • Phosphine is a gas found in Earth's atmosphere, but the announcement of phosphine discovered above Venus's clouds made headlines in 2020.
  • Despite the fact the group did not find phosphine after the stressful observations, the study was a success.

Space Force's Wide Field of View achieves First Light

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화요일, 11월 29, 2022
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EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The United States Space Force Space Systems Command's Wide Field of View Testbed transmitted its "First Light" mission data-product. Performing the satellite's mission operations, Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing (NYSE: BA) company, secured the data beginning October 25.

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  • EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The United States Space Force Space Systems Command's Wide Field of View Testbed transmitted its "First Light" mission data-product.
  • Performing the satellite's mission operations, Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing (NYSE: BA) company, secured the data beginning October 25.
  • First Light is the focal plane's first exposure in space and is a critical step toward demonstrating WFOV's next generation large-format focal plane technology.
  • Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing Company, delivers high-performing prototype and constellation solutions across advanced national security and environmental observation missions.

Advanced Space Leads First Ever Commercial Mission to Operate at the Moon

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월요일, 11월 21, 2022
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Consistent with the company vision to enable the sustainable exploration, development, and settlement of space, Advanced Space has worked to support the Nations focus on returning to the Moon.

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  • Consistent with the company vision to enable the sustainable exploration, development, and settlement of space, Advanced Space has worked to support the Nations focus on returning to the Moon.
  • In partnership with NASA and others, Advanced Space is developing state-of-the-art tools and infrastructure that will support safe operations at the Moon for future missions.
  • Advanced Space will be demonstrating the autonomous spacecraft-to-spacecraft navigation software it has been developing in anticipation of increasingly congested operations at the Moon.
  • Providing telemetry, tracking and control services for NASA and commercial space missions and toengage university students in deep space mission operations.

CAPSTONE is at the Moon! Advanced Space Leads Pathfinding Efforts for NASA

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월요일, 11월 14, 2022
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CAPSTONE is demonstrating how to get into this orbit; in the weeks to come, CAPSTONE will demonstrate and verify orbital operations in the NRHO for NASA.

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  • CAPSTONE is demonstrating how to get into this orbit; in the weeks to come, CAPSTONE will demonstrate and verify orbital operations in the NRHO for NASA.
  • The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment or CAPSTONE, is owned and operated by Advanced Space and was built by Terran Orbital.
  • Providing telemetry, tracking and control services for NASA and commercial space missions and toengage university students in deep space mission operations.
  • Advanced Space ( https://advancedspace.com/ ) supports the sustainable exploration, development, and settlement of space through software and services that leverage unique subject matter expertise to improve the fundamentals of spaceflight.

CAPSTONE Forges New Path for NASA's Future Artemis Moon Missions

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월요일, 11월 21, 2022
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The spacecraft now is in the operational phase of its pathfinding mission, during which it will test an orbit key to future Artemis missions and demonstrate new technologies for spacecraft operating near the Moon.

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  • The spacecraft now is in the operational phase of its pathfinding mission, during which it will test an orbit key to future Artemis missions and demonstrate new technologies for spacecraft operating near the Moon.
  • "CAPSTONE is part of our new era of human exploration at the Moon, testing the unique orbit planned for the Gateway lunar space station."
  • CAPSTONE is the first spacecraft to fly in a near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) and the first CubeSat to operate at the Moon.
  • This orbit is the same planned for Gateway, an upcoming Moon-orbiting space station that will support NASA's Artemis missions.

NASA to Share First Results of Inflatable Heat Shield Technology Test

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화요일, 11월 15, 2022
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA will host a media briefing on Thursday, Nov. 17, at 2 p.m. EST to share early results from the Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) technology demonstration.

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  • WASHINGTON, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA will host a media briefing on Thursday, Nov. 17, at 2 p.m. EST to share early results from the Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) technology demonstration.
  • About one hour after launch aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket, the LOFTID inflatable heat shield deployed and began its demonstration.
  • The inflatable heat shield technology tested by LOFTID could improve landing capability on worlds with atmospheres, allowing the landing of heavier payloads and safe touchdown at higher altitudes than are currently accessible.
  • The LOFTID project is managed and funded through NASA's Technology Demonstration Missions program, part of the agency's Space Technology Mission Directorate.

IPTA Wins $404M Aviation and Missile Center (AvMC) Enterprise Information Technology Support Services (EITSS) Contract

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금요일, 11월 11, 2022
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IPTA was awarded the $404M US Army Futures Command (AFC) Combat Capability Development Command (DEVCOM) Aviation and Missile Center (AvMC) Enterprise Information Technology Support Services (EITSS) contract to support IT services under the VETS 2 GWAC.

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  • IPTA was awarded the $404M US Army Futures Command (AFC) Combat Capability Development Command (DEVCOM) Aviation and Missile Center (AvMC) Enterprise Information Technology Support Services (EITSS) contract to support IT services under the VETS 2 GWAC.
  • IPTA will provide the personnel, services, and materials necessary to enable the full lifecycle of IT support requirements across AvMC.
  • IPTAs services to support the AvMC mission will include Network Support, Information Management Services, Cybersecurity Management, Portfolio Management, IT Asset Management, Application Management, IT Governance, and Tiered Service Response.
  • AvMC is a subordinate Research, Development, Test, & Evaluation (RDT&E) Center under the Army Futures Command (AFC) and DEVCOM.