Teledyne Brown Engineering’s newest contract set to expand International Space Station

Huntsville based Teledyne Brown Engineering revealed late last week that the company has been awarded the Marshall Operations, Systems, Services and Integration II (MOSSI II) contract from NASA. The contract is a performance-based, cost-plus-award-fee contract with a potential mission services value of $596.5 over eight years. As the prime contractor for MOSSI II, Teledyne Brown is […]

2022 SMD Symposium Showcases Latest Missile, Aerospace Technologies

There’s one less helicopter hovering above a mountain range, courtesy of BlueHalo’s Virtual Stinger Trainer and the author of this story with some help from Haden Downey (pictured below). It only took one shot from the company’s man-held missile system from inside the Von Braun Center’s South Hall. BlueHalo had one of seemingly countless booths […]

Huntsville Company’s Solar Sail Propulsion Extending Deep Space Exploration

A CubeSat developed by the Huntsville company NeXolve and NASA will soon take space exploration even further. Known as the Near Earth Asteroid Scout, the small craft was developed under NASA’s Advanced Exploration Systems Program at Marshall Space Flight Center and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. CubeSats show immense promise for space-based science […]

Artemis Update: Launch Window Now Open For End of August

On Wednesday morning, NASA administrators Jim Free, Cliff Lanham, and Mike Sarafin marked the 53rd anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing with a teleconference announcing the latest updates on the upcoming Artemis mission.  Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate associate administrator Jim Free began by announcing the scheduled launch windows for the first SLS mission, stating […]

Huntsville’s NeXolve celebrates James Webb Space Telescope’s major science milestone

HUNTSVILLE, AL – With celebrations ongoing for the achievements set forth by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, one Huntsville-based company is celebrating its very own technology that helped the Telescope capture the stunning images. Webb is equipped with the most advanced tools ever assembled, including Huntsville-based NeXolve Holding Company’s sunshield layers. After its historic launch in […]

Competition Heats Up For Lunar Terrain Vehicle

As the Artemis I mission draws closer, NASA is looking ahead to future manned missions. By 2024 NASA plans to land humans on the moon, where they will explore the surface for about a week before returning to Orion for the trip home to Earth.  At the lunar South Pole, NASA and its global partners […]

Strategic deal adds to Yulista’s capabilities in Missile and Aerospace Engineering Services.

HUNTSVILLE, AL – Yulista, a global leader in rapid response aerospace and defense solutions, today announced the acquisition of Troy7, Inc. a Woman-Owned Small Business specializing in missile and  aerospace engineering solutions. Troy7 brings a legacy of support to more than 350 missile defense and  space flight missions for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), Space […]

South Alabama company awarded NASA contract to assist Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA recently announced the awarding of a facilities engineering design and inspection services contract to Vanguard Pacific of Foley. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract is to provide architecture and engineering design services at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville. The contract will go into effect on August 1, 2022, and is valued at $25.6 million with […]

Artemis Update: Wet Dress Complete, Launch Date Likely Late August

Following the analysis of data gathered from the wet dress rehearsal on Monday, June 20, NASA officials from Kennedy Space Center, Marshall Space Flight Center, and NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. announced in a media teleconference held on Friday that the testing campaign is complete.  “During the wet dress rehearsal activities, we have incrementally added […]

Artemis Update: Despite minor test errors, wet dress rehearsal fires off smoothly

After a very long day of work, the Artemis team has earned a well-deserved chance to appreciate a job well done following the completion of its fourth wet dress rehearsal. NASA administrators announced during the post-wet dress teleconference that although the latest exercise wasn’t without a few hiccups, all of the critical targets had been […]