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.
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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.
The Aerospace Corp. established remotely operated optical communications ground stations in Maui, Hawaii and at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico.
The Aerospace Corp.’s operational missions Rogue Alpha and Rogue Beta are delivering imagery to the remotely operated optical ground stations.
The Rogue cubesats were built and are operated by The Aerospace Corp. for the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command.
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.
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.
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.
NASA approved a demonstration flight for DiskSat, the thin round satellite designed by The Aerospace Corporation.
The Aerospace Corporation is building four DiskSats and a DiskSat dispenser to send to low-Earth orbit in 2024 to validate the technology.
The Aerospace Corporation is a national nonprofit corporation that operates a federally funded research and development center.
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.
STP-28A will carry seven experimental satellites from multiple government agencies and Aerospace Corporation’s Slingshot 1 modular satellite bus.
Rebecca Bishop at The Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, California is a GDC Interdisciplinary Scientist selected in November 2021.
The Aerospace Corp.’s Slingshot satellite will host 19 different payloads on a 12-unit Blue Canyon cubesat bus.
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.
Aerospace Corp. funded most of the 19 payloads on Slingshot 1 and a few payloads are from customers.
Aerospace Corp is a federally funded corporation based in Los Angeles that provides technical support to the Space Force and other agencies.
Slingshot 1 is a small satellite built by Aerospace Corp. on a bus from Blue Canyon Technologies.
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.
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.