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NASA Glenn Research Center

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NASA Glenn Research Center, located in Cleveland, Ohio, is a key NASA center focused on developing innovative technologies for both aeronautics and space exploration. As a research and development institution, it specializes in areas like space propulsion and cryogenic fluids management, power and energy storage, and communications technology. Glenn Research Center contributes to major NASA missions by designing and testing advanced systems and components for spaceflight. Associated keywords: space technology, space propulsion, power systems, communications, aeronautics.

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Early operations and telemetry from the Xantus system will validate thrust across several power levels and other key capabilities that built on third-party testing at NASA’s Glenn Research Center and Benchmark’s Research and Development facility in Pleasanton, California.

CapabilityValue 4.0Mar 21, 2024Benchmark Space Systems Deploys its Xantus Electric Propulsion System on Orion's Satellite

NASA selected Sierra Lobo Inc. of Fremont, Ohio to support spaceflight hardware design, development, testing, and operations at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.

RelationshipsCapabilityValue 4.5Feb 25, 2024NASA awards Sierra Lobo the spaceflight development, operations contract maximum potential of $282.1 million

Glenn Research Center opened the Aerospace Communications Facility in 2023, which hosts 25 research laboratories and advanced facilities for radio frequency and optical communications research and development.

CapabilityPlanGeneralValue 4.0Dec 26, 2023NASA's Aeronautics Achievements in 2023

NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility is part of NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland and is located on 6,400 acres in Sandusky, Ohio.

CapabilityGeneralValue 3.0Dec 18, 2023Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser Spaceplane Enters Final Test Campaign

NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility is part of NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland and is located on 6,400 acres in Sandusky, Ohio.

CapabilityGeneralValue 3.0Dec 1, 2023Sierra Space's Shooting Star Module Commences Testing at NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility

Jim Free spent several years in the private sector after an earlier NASA career that included serving as director of the Glenn Research Center.

GovernanceValue 2.0Nov 16, 2023NASA exploration head Free to become associate administrator

Lindsay Kaldon is the Fission Surface Power program manager at NASA’s Glenn Research Center and participated in a panel at the American Astronautical Society’s Glenn Memorial Symposium on 2023-07-18.

GovernanceValue 2.2Jul 20, 2023NASA plans for lunar fission power systems face fiscal challenges

Venturi Astrolab in Hawthorne, California received a 2022 ACO selection to demonstrate lunar tire technology with NASA Glenn and NASA Johnson.

RelationshipsCapabilityPlanValue 4.2Apr 26, 2023NASA Selects 12 Companies to Collaborate on Key Technology Developments for Moon to Mars Objectives

Lockheed Martin Corporation in Bethesda, Maryland received three 2022 ACO selections involving NASA Langley, NASA Glenn, NASA Goddard, NASA Marshall, and NASA Ames.

RelationshipsLegalValue 3.2Apr 26, 2023NASA Selects 12 Companies to Collaborate on Key Technology Developments for Moon to Mars Objectives

Theresa Benyo of NASA’s Glenn Research Center received a 2023 NIAC Phase I grant for 'Accessing Icy World Oceans Using Lattice Confinement Fusion Fast Fission'.

GovernanceFinancialValue 4.0Jan 19, 2023NASA Selects Experimental Space Technology Concepts from NIAC Program for Initial Study

Egress testing with VIPER and Griffin took place at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio.

CapabilityPlanValue 3.0Jun 30, 2022Astrobotic’s Griffin Lander and NASA’s VIPER Moon Rover Complete Complex Test Drives

The testing that proved the wireless charging system can function through the 14-Earth-day lunar night was carried out by Astrobotic and co-authored with NASA Glenn Research Center on 2022-06-16.

CapabilityGeneralValue 4.0Jun 20, 2022Astrobotic’s Wireless Charging System for the Moon Can Survive Lunar Night

The Communications Services Project (CSP) is managed by NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland under the direction of the Space Communications and Navigation Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

GovernanceValue 2.5Apr 21, 2022Six American Companies Selected By NASA To Collaborate on Space Communications By 2025

The Hall thruster engine for the MEP electric propulsion system is being tested at NASA’s Glenn Research Center.

CapabilityGeneralValue 4.0Mar 24, 2022Northrop Grumman says customers are ‘lined up’ for on-orbit satellite servicing

After the environmental test campaign, the Griffin STM will be shipped to NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland to perform egress test sequences with a prototype of VIPER.

PlanCapabilityValue 4.0Feb 17, 2022Griffin Lunar Test Model Complete

The egress tests at NASA Glenn will verify that VIPER can deploy to the lunar surface from Griffin’s ramps.

PlanCapabilityValue 4.0Feb 17, 2022Griffin Lunar Test Model Complete

NASA Ames Research Center's Starling program and NASA Glenn Research Center's SKOUT program have adopted CesiumAstro's technology.

RelationshipsCapabilityValue 4.0Dec 16, 2021CesiumAstro Accelerates Active Phased Array Payload Development for Lunar Exploration, Connectivity, and Sensing

DART received support from NASA centers including the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Goddard Space Flight Center, Johnson Space Center, Glenn Research Center, and Langley Research Center.

RelationshipsValue 3.5Oct 22, 2021NASA’s DART Journeys To Vandenberg Space Force Base For Launch

Elias Naffah, CSP Formulation Manager at NASA Glenn Research Center, provided the keynote for the MSUA Satellite Mobile Innovation Awards 2021 ceremony.

GeneralGovernanceValue 1.2Sep 12, 2021Mobile Satellite Users Association (MUSA) Announces Satellite Mobile Innovation Awards for 2021

CesiumAstro delivered a space communication system to NASA’s Glenn Research Center in support of the SmallSat Ka-band Operations User Terminal (SKOUT) project to provide direct-to-earth communication between NASA mission spacecraft and GEO relay satellite constellations as well as direct-to-ground networks.

RelationshipsCapabilityGeneralValue 4.4May 26, 2021Airborne and in-orbit communications Leader CesiumAstro, Inc. readies for first mission to launch
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