Astrotech Space Operations
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NASA
NASA’s PUNCH Mission Tests Solar Arrays Before Launch
Technicians supporting NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission deployed and tested the spacecraft’s solar arrays at the Astrotech Space Operations processing facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California ahead of its launch next month. The arrays, essential for powering instruments and systems, mark another milestone in preparing PUNCH for its mission to study the Sun’s outer atmosphere…
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Press Releases
Sidus Space’s Cutting-Edge 3D Hybrid Satellite ‘LizzieSat’ Ready for Launch
Sidus Space (NASDAQ: SIDU) (the “Company” or “Sidus”), a multi-faceted Space and Data-as-a-Service company, announces the successful completion of launch processing of LizzieSat™ at the Astrotech Space Operations facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The Sidus team executed final steps in launch processing of LizzieSat™, including mating the satellite to the separation system and the launch vehicle adapter,…
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NASA
NASA Awards Spacecraft Processing Operations Contract
NASA has selected Astrotech Space Operations, LLC of Titusville, Florida, and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide commercial payload processing services for agency missions launching from multiple locations. Under the Spacecraft Processing Operations Contract, NASA will issue a fixed-price, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract that has a potential 10-year ordering period. The maximum total contract value is $100…
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Press Releases
First Lockheed Martin-Built GPS III Satellite Encapsulated for Dec. 18 Launch
TITUSVILLE, Fla., Dec. 11, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — The U.S. Air Force’s first Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT)-built GPS III satellite is now encapsulated for its planned December 18 launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. GPS III Space Vehicle 01 (GPS III SV01) underwent pre-launch processing, fueling and encapsulation at Astrotech Space Operations, in Titusville, Florida. During encapsulation, GPS III SV01 was sealed in…
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