Parsons Corporation is a technology provider offering solutions for defense, intelligence, and critical infrastructure, including the space sector. They provide services such as launch logistics, satellite operations, assured PNT, and geospatial intelligence, and are involved in satellite integration, ground operations, and space domain awareness. Parsons' key customers include the US Space Force, US Air Force, NASA, and other government agencies. Keywords associated with Parsons include space architecture, launch integration, and small satellite development.
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Parsons Corporation was awarded a $28,000,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance command and control and space software baselines for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s GARDEM program.
Parsons Corporation acquired Echo Ridge in 2021 and integrates terrestrial and low Earth orbit satellite signals for PNT.
Parsons is delivering data from NOAA-15, NOAA-18, and NOAA-19 to NESDIS to support NOAA’s numerical weather prediction and climate models and environmental monitoring.
Operation of all three POES satellites transitioned from the NOAA Satellite Operations Facility in Suitland, Maryland to Parsons’ Operations Facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado on 2023-11-28 after approximately one year of transition activities.
NOAA awarded a contract to Parsons Corporation in September 2022 to implement POES Extended Life.
Parsons added a team of private-sector companies to transition operational control of NOAA-15, NOAA-18, and NOAA-19 and to develop a new commercial cloud-based ground system that will remain active until September 2025.
Ball Aerospace, Parsons, General Dynamics, and Omni Federal each won $9,700,000 contracts from the U.S. Space Force to develop competing designs of next-generation ground systems.
Parsons was selected earlier 2023 to develop a ground system for missile-warning satellites in medium Earth orbit.
Sidus Space offers more than a decade of expertise in manufacturing mission-critical hardware for customers including international and U.S. governments, NASA, and major space and defense prime contractors such as Parsons Corporation.
Parsons has integrated payloads for missions including the U.S. Space Force’s Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF)-5 communications satellite and the joint NASA/U.S. Geological Survey Landsat 9 Earth observation satellite.
Sidus Space, Inc. (NASDAQ: SIDU) was awarded a subcontract to produce hardware in support of Parsons Corporation’s Launch Manifest Systems Integration (LMSI) contract.
Parsons was awarded a $55,000,000 contract for the Epoch 1 ground system last month.
The U.S. Space Force awarded Parsons a $55,000,000 contract to develop a ground system for a network of missile-warning satellites in medium Earth orbit.
The NTS-3 ground control system was developed by Parsons Corporation and will be operated at the AFRL Space Vehicles Directorate headquarters at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico.
Parsons won the NTS-3 ground system contract in 2017 and L3Harris received the NTS-3 satellite contract in 2018.
Parsons Corporation operates a smallsat integration facility in Torrance, California.
Under its contract with the Space Force’s Mission Manifest Office, Parsons integrated payloads for several missions including NASA and U.S. Geological Survey’s Landsat 9, which carried four cubesats from other U.S. government agencies.
The planned procurement would follow the $94,000,000 Launch Manifest Systems Integration (LMSI) contract that Parsons Corporation won in 2019.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration selected a Parsons Corporation–led team to provide engineering services, information technology functionality, and flight operations support to assume on-orbit operations for the Polar Operational Environmental Satellites NOAA-15, NOAA-18, and NOAA-19.
The Parsons–SpaceLink technical approach aims to enable space-to-space optical communications terminals that can be dynamically modified on orbit to adapt and communicate across various optical standards used by different satellite systems.