Boeing Receives Air Force Launch Services Contract

The U.S. Air Force awarded Boeing Co. a $674.1 million cost-plus-award fee contract to provide Delta 4 launch services under the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program.
The contract covers launch and range operations at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., as well as mission integration, mission unique development and integration, system engineering and program management, subcontractor support; factory support engineering, and special studies.
Work under the contract will run through September.

Eaglepicher To Furnish Lockheed Martin With Batteries

Battery producer Eaglepicher Technologies has landed a $1.8 million contract to provide nickel-hydrogen battery cells to Lockheed Martin for use on the U.S. Navy’s Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite constellation.
MUOS will form a new network of spacecraft for the U.S. Department of Defense to provide narrowband communication to a variety of handheld and fixed location terminals worldwide. The system will replace the current narrowband tactical satellite communications system known as the Ultra High Frequency Follow-On system.
Lockheed Martin Space Systems is the prime contractor and systems integrator for MUOS.

GMV Selected By Orbital To Support NASA JPL Mission

GMV announced that its low-Earth orbit (LEO) flight dynamics product, FocusLEO, has been selected by Orbital Sciences Corp. to support the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO), a mission to measure carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere. The mission is managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Orbital will provide the OCO project’s spacecraft and real-time mission operations.

MSC.Software Receives Contract From CNES

MSC.Software provide simulation software and services to the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), the French space agency.
CNES engineers will use MSC.Software’s product offerings, including solver applications and CAD-embedded system Simdesigner suite featuring enterprise collaboration and centralized data management.

TCS To Provide Satellite Communications Network To U.S. Government Agency

Telecommunication Systems Inc. (TCS) received a contract from an unnamed U.S. government agency to supply a secure satellite communications network, the company said.
TCS will provide its Swiftlink deployable communications suite that incorporates satellites terminals, space segment and a communications hub. The hub and remote equipment are provided by iDirect Technologies.

Topcon Awarded GNSS Technology Contract

Topcon Positioning Systems will design a system to harness signals from all current and planned positioning satellite systems. The Tennessee Department of Transportation will use the satellite reference network that will rely on signals from GPS, Russia’s Glonass and Europe’s planned Galileo system.
The total available satellite signals will exceed 80 when all the Galileo satellites are in service, and system upgrades and additions to the GPS and GLONASS systems are completed.