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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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CesiumAstro manufactured and shipped a communications system to NASA’s Glenn Research Center for use in cognitive communications research supporting autonomy for swarm missions and future lunar architecture deployment.

RelationshipsCapabilityPlanValue 4.0May 26, 2021Airborne and in-orbit communications Leader CesiumAstro, Inc. readies for first mission to launch

CesiumAstro manufactured and shipped a communications system to NASA’s Glenn Research Center for use in cognitive communications research supporting autonomy for swarm missions and future lunar architecture deployment.

RelationshipsCapabilityValue 4.0May 24, 2021Airborne and In-Orbit Communications Leader CesiumAstro, Inc. Readies for First Mission to Launch; Company Wins Swath of Commercial Milestones

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

RelationshipsCapabilityValue 4.6May 24, 2021Airborne and In-Orbit Communications Leader CesiumAstro, Inc. Readies for First Mission to Launch; Company Wins Swath of Commercial Milestones

Phase Four is working with NASA to perform lifetime testing of Maxwell and future thrusters using a test chamber at the Glenn Research Center.

RelationshipsCapabilityPlanValue 4.0Jan 25, 2021Phase Four launches first plasma propulsion systems

Plum Brook Station is operated by NASA’s Glenn Research Center and is known for thermal vacuum chambers and other facilities used to test spacecraft and launch vehicles such as the Orion spacecraft.

CapabilityGeneralValue 4.0Dec 17, 2020House passes two space bills

NASA Glenn Research Center will provide lunar advisory support and access to its VF-13 vacuum facility for dirty thermal vacuum testing to qualify the wireless charging system.

CapabilityGeneralValue 4.0Nov 12, 2020Astrobotic Wins $5.7 million NASA Tipping Point Contract for Wireless Charging on the Moon

Astrobotic won a $5,700,000 NASA Tipping Point contract to lead Bosch, WiBotic, the University of Washington, and the NASA Glenn Research Center in developing a product line of lightweight proximity chargers.

RelationshipsFinancialCapabilityValue 4.6Nov 12, 2020Astrobotic Wins $5.7 million NASA Tipping Point Contract for Wireless Charging on the Moon

Glenn Research Center and Emergency Products and Research developed a new version of AMBUStat that can disinfect surfaces as well as kill pathogens in the air, with NASA providing aerosol physics expertise and aiming to keep costs low for underserved communities.

CapabilityRelationshipsValue 3.0Apr 23, 2020NASA shows off coronavirus pandemic projects

NASA’s Glenn Research Center is working with Emergency Products and Research on AMBUStat, a decontamination system originally developed five years ago to finely distribute droplets of a sterilizing fluid for rapid decontamination of ambulances and other vehicles.

GeneralCapabilityRelationshipsValue 4.0Apr 23, 2020NASA shows off coronavirus pandemic projects

Vice President Mike Pence will chair the next National Space Council meeting on 2020-03-24 at NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio.

GovernancePlanValue 3.2Mar 9, 2020White House might consider space policies on cybersecurity, supply chain, nuclear power

Marla Pérez-Davis had been acting director of the Glenn Research Center since 2019-10-01.

GovernanceValue 3.0Jan 24, 2020NASA appoints two new center directors

NASA selected Marla Pérez-Davis to serve as director of the Glenn Research Center effective immediately and announced the selection on 2020-01-24.

GovernanceValue 4.0Jan 24, 2020NASA appoints two new center directors

Janet Kavandi has been director of NASA’s Cleveland-based Glenn Research Center since March 2016.

GovernanceValue 4.0Sep 12, 2019NASA Glenn center director to retire

Janet Kavandi will step down as director of NASA’s Glenn Research Center and retire at the end of the month after nearly a quarter-century at the agency.

GovernanceValue 2.8Sep 12, 2019NASA Glenn center director to retire

Janet Kavandi became deputy director of NASA’s Glenn Research Center in February 2015.

GovernanceValue 4.0Sep 12, 2019NASA Glenn center director to retire

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.

RelationshipsGeneralValue 4.0Aug 21, 2019NASA awards Aerospace Corp. contract worth up to $621 million

The lunar lander program will be led out of Marshall Space Flight Center, with Glenn Research Center in a supporting role.

PlanCapabilityGeneralValue 3.0Aug 21, 2019Search continues for new NASA human spaceflight leader

Janet Kavandi is the director of NASA’s Glenn Research Center and has held that position since March 2016.

GovernanceValue 4.0Jul 10, 2018Kavandi still waiting on potential NASA deputy administrator nomination

The first SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft completed thermal vacuum and acoustics tests at NASA Glenn Research Center’s Plum Brook Station.

CapabilityPlanValue 4.0Jul 9, 2018Crew Dragon completes thermal vacuum tests ahead of first test flight

Janet Kavandi has been director of NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland since March 2016.

GovernanceValue 3.5Jun 12, 2018Bridenstine endorses Kavandi for NASA deputy administrator
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