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 Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center awarded The Aerospace Corp. a $1,080,000,000 modification to a previously awarded contract for systems engineering and integration support for national security space programs.
The Aerospace Corp. launched the Optical Communications and Sensor Demonstration mission in 2017 with a mission objective to test water-fueled thrusters.
An updated version of the water-fueled cold gas thrusters first flown by the Aerospace Corp. in 2017 launched on AeroCube 10 in early August.
AeroCube 10, equipped with Aerospace Corp.’s steam propulsion, launched from a Cygnus space tug on 2019-08-07.
In 2011 The Aerospace Corp. won five NASA cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts for similar work with a combined maximum value of nearly $658,300,000.
The nine NASA centers that received independent assessments from The Aerospace Corp. under the 2011 contracts include NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Ames Research Center, NASA Johnson Space Center, Glenn Research Center, NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA Stennis Space Center, and NASA Langley Research Center.
The Aerospace Corp. won a sole source NASA-wide Specialized Engineering, Evaluation and Test Services (NSEETS) contract with a maximum potential value of $621,000,000 over nine years.
The NSEETS contract continues work that The Aerospace Corp. began performing in 2011.
The Aerospace Corp. is a nonprofit organization that operates a federally funded research and development center and has about 4,000 employees based in California, New Mexico, Colorado, and Washington, D.C.
Under the 2011 contracts The Aerospace Corp. provided independent assessments of NASA programs including evaluations of technical risk, cost assessments, schedules, and safety for NASA Headquarters and nine NASA centers.
Aerospace Corporation has conducted a series of experiments studying the impact of radiation on solar cells.
The Aerospace Corporation's two-satellite AeroCube 10 mission was released from the Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft on August 7, 2023.
The Aerospace Corporation is a federally funded research and development center that supports U.S. government space activities.
The Aerospace Corporation was founded in 1960 to help the U.S. Air Force develop the first missiles, rockets, and satellites.
SMC is working with Aerospace Corp. to develop a satellite procurement approach called continuous production agility that leverages commercial satellite production lines.
Aerospace Corp. is working with SMC’s Space Enterprise Consortium to design a standard interface for vendors to ensure payloads are compatible with buses.
The Aerospace Corp. plans to build a more sophisticated cubesat to demonstrate additional multispectral mission capability.
Barbara Barrett was originally elected to The Aerospace Corporation board in 2006 and served until her confirmation as U.S. ambassador to Finland in 2008.
The Aerospace Corporation is a nonprofit federally funded research and development center based in Los Angeles that advises the Department of Defense.
AeroCube 11 consists of two satellites developed by The Aerospace Corporation to test advanced imaging technologies.