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Aerospace Corporation

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The Aerospace Corporation is an American nonprofit corporation that operates a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC). It provides technical guidance and advice on all aspects of space missions to military, civil, and commercial customers, including the U.S. Space Force, NRO, NASA, and NOAA. Aerospace offers scientific and engineering support for launch, space, and related ground systems, as well as analysis and expertise to commercial space entities. Keywords associated with the Aerospace Corporation are: FFRDC, space missions, technical guidance, space systems, and space policy.

ngoFounded 1960
El Segundo, California, United States
www.aerospace.org/
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The Aerospace Corp. built an optical ground station prototype for OCSD space-to-ground communications that two people operated in El Segundo, California.

CapabilityGeneralValue 4.0Aug 9, 2022Aerospace develops low-cost optical ground network

The Aerospace Corp. established remotely operated optical communications ground stations in Maui, Hawaii and at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico.

CapabilityPlanValue 4.0Aug 9, 2022Aerospace develops low-cost optical ground network

The Aerospace Corp.’s operational missions Rogue Alpha and Rogue Beta are delivering imagery to the remotely operated optical ground stations.

CapabilityGeneralValue 4.0Aug 9, 2022Aerospace develops low-cost optical ground network

The Rogue cubesats were built and are operated by The Aerospace Corp. for the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command.

RelationshipsValue 4.2Aug 9, 2022Aerospace develops low-cost optical ground network

The Aerospace Corporation predicted a reentry of the Long March 5B stage centered on 11:07 UTC on 2022-07-31, with an uncertainty of plus or minus 24 hours.

PlanValue 4.0Jul 26, 2022Massive Long March 5B booster predicted to reenter on July 31

Slingshot 1 is a 12U cubesat built by The Aerospace Corporation using a bus from Blue Canyon Technologies and carries 19 technology demonstration payloads including a modular plug-and-play interface.

CapabilityRelationshipsValue 4.6Jul 2, 2022Virgin Orbit launches Space Force mission

The Aerospace Corporation plans to develop a DiskSat standard analogous to the CubeSat standard and to define the interface between the satellite and launch vehicle for rideshare operations.

PlanCapabilityValue 4.2Jun 20, 2022NASA approves demonstration flight for circular DiskSats

NASA approved a demonstration flight for DiskSat, the thin round satellite designed by The Aerospace Corporation.

PlanLegalCapabilityValue 4.0Jun 20, 2022NASA approves demonstration flight for circular DiskSats

The Aerospace Corporation is building four DiskSats and a DiskSat dispenser to send to low-Earth orbit in 2024 to validate the technology.

PlanCapabilityValue 4.0Jun 20, 2022NASA approves demonstration flight for circular DiskSats

The Aerospace Corporation is a national nonprofit corporation that operates a federally funded research and development center.

GeneralValue 1.2Jun 16, 2022The Aerospace Corporation elects a new member with deep experience in the defense + intelligence communities to the organization’s Board of Trustees

Lockheed Martin Space, Northrop Grumman Space Systems, The Aerospace Corporation, multiple support contractors, and government personnel formed a combined team supporting SBIRS GEO-6 production and delivery.

RelationshipsValue 3.8Jun 15, 2022USSF Space Systems Command delivers the 6th + final SBIRS satellite for launch from Cape Canaveral SFS

STP-28A will carry seven experimental satellites from multiple government agencies and Aerospace Corporation’s Slingshot 1 modular satellite bus.

CapabilityValue 4.0May 10, 2022National Reconnaissance Office partners with U.K. on space mission to fly on Virgin Orbit rocket

Rebecca Bishop at The Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, California is a GDC Interdisciplinary Scientist selected in November 2021.

GovernanceValue 3.0Apr 26, 2022NASA Selects The Investigation Teams That Will Join The Geospace Dynamics Mission

The Aerospace Corp.’s Slingshot satellite will host 19 different payloads on a 12-unit Blue Canyon cubesat bus.

CapabilityGeneralValue 4.0Apr 14, 2022Russian invasion of Ukraine exposes cybersecurity threat to commercial satellites

Aerospace Corp intends to act as an honest broker to avoid creating hurdles for commercial players that want to work with the Department of Defense.

LegalGeneralValue 1.5Apr 4, 2022Space Force looking to ease barriers to entry for commercial companies

Aerospace Corp. funded most of the 19 payloads on Slingshot 1 and a few payloads are from customers.

RelationshipsFinancialValue 4.0Apr 4, 2022Space experiment to push standardization in small satellites

Aerospace Corp is a federally funded corporation based in Los Angeles that provides technical support to the Space Force and other agencies.

CapabilityRelationshipsValue 3.4Apr 4, 2022Space Force looking to ease barriers to entry for commercial companies

Slingshot 1 is a small satellite built by Aerospace Corp. on a bus from Blue Canyon Technologies.

CapabilityGeneralValue 4.0Apr 4, 2022Space experiment to push standardization in small satellites

NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts awarded a $2,000,000 grant in 2020 to a team that includes NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, The Aerospace Corporation, and Xplore for work on technology to harness the sun’s gravitational field to gather imagery of planets orbiting distant stars.

RelationshipsFinancialCapabilityPlanValue 4.5Feb 26, 2022Xplore banks $16.2 million for space-as-a-service

NOAA worked with three federally funded research and development centers—Aerospace Corp., Mitre, and MIT Lincoln Laboratory—along with NASA and the University of Texas on OADR development.

RelationshipsValue 4.0Feb 12, 2022Office of Space Commerce rolls out prototype space catalog for traffic management
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