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Mercury Systems

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Andover, Massachusetts, United States
www.mrcy.com
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Mercury Systems co-developed a space-qualified processing board for field-programmable gate arrays with Ball Aerospace.

Mentioned as: Mercury SystemsNarrative GeneralMar 11, 2024Space loves AI, AI doesn’t love Space

GEOST will provide Sierra Space with 16 Mercury missile warning and missile tracking payloads for Tracking Layer Tranche 2.

Mentioned as: Mercury SystemsOrg RelationshipFeb 8, 2024GEOST Selected to Supply Missile Warning Sensor for Sierra Space Satellites

GEOST will provide Sierra Space with 16 Mercury missile warning and missile tracking payloads for the SDA Tracking Layer Tranche 2 program.

Mentioned as: Mercury SystemsOrg RelationshipFeb 6, 2024GEOST to provide missile warning sensor for Sierra Space satellites in the SDA Tracking Layer

Scientific data from Discovery missions has expanded knowledge from Mercury to the main asteroid belt.

Mentioned as: mercuryNarrative GrowthFeb 5, 2024Review: NASA’s Discovery Program

Discovery missions, including Mars landers, a Mercury orbiter, and expeditions to asteroids and comets, have been predominantly successful.

Mentioned as: Mercury SystemsNarrative GeneralFeb 5, 2024Review: NASA’s Discovery Program

Geost was selected by Sierra Space to provide 18 infrared payloads for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 2 satellites, consisting of 16 Mercury missile warning and missile tracking payloads and two Phoenix fire control payloads.

Mentioned as: Mercury SystemsOrg RelationshipJan 16, 2024Space Development Agency awards contracts worth $2.5 billion for missile-tracking satellites

Mercury's permanently shadowed regions are significantly richer in ice compared to those on the Moon.

Mentioned as: Mercury SystemsNarrative GeneralNov 27, 2023Searching for the ice hidden on the Moon

In June 1960, Hycon Corporation proposed a reconnaissance system using a Mercury spacecraft with a Hycon camera system to the CIA.

Mentioned as: mercuryTechnical ProductOct 16, 2023Roads not taken in satellite photo-reconnaissance: Part 1, the 1960s

The proposed Mercury reconnaissance system could achieve approximately 1.5-meter ground resolution and operate for three days in orbit.

Mentioned as: Mercury SystemsNarrative GeneralOct 16, 2023Roads not taken in satellite photo-reconnaissance: Part 1, the 1960s

Maverick Space Systems offers a 3U CubeSat dispenser named Mercury-3 that is lightweight and designed to meet NASA GEVS qualification levels.

Mentioned as: Mercury SystemsNarrative GeneralJun 27, 2023Revolutionizing Space Exploration: Maverick at the Forefront of Innovation and Mission Enablement

Maverick Space Systems offers a 12U CubeSat dispenser named Mercury-12 that is lightweight and designed to meet NASA GEVS qualification levels.

Mentioned as: Mercury SystemsNarrative GeneralJun 27, 2023Revolutionizing Space Exploration: Maverick at the Forefront of Innovation and Mission Enablement

Maverick Space Systems offers a 6U CubeSat dispenser named Mercury-6 that is lightweight and designed to meet NASA GEVS qualification levels.

Mentioned as: Mercury SystemsNarrative GeneralJun 27, 2023Revolutionizing Space Exploration: Maverick at the Forefront of Innovation and Mission Enablement

At the moment of close approach, BepiColombo will have a velocity of 5.4 km/s with respect to Mercury and the flyby will reduce the spacecraft’s heliocentric velocity magnitude by 800 m/s.

Mentioned as: Mercury SystemsNarrative PlanJun 20, 2023BepiColombo Mission Gears Up for Third Mercury Flyby

Viasat debuted its Mercury Free Space Optical Communications terminal during the U.S. Special Operations Command Technical Experimentation event on 2023-03-21 in Avon Park, Florida.

Mentioned as: MercuryTechnical ProductApr 6, 2023Viasat Debuts Mercury Expeditionary Free Space Optical Communications Terminal

The Viasat Mercury solution was designed to support terrestrial expeditionary applications, including Special Operations Command use cases.

Mentioned as: Mercury SystemsNarrative GeneralApr 6, 2023Viasat Debuts Mercury Expeditionary Free Space Optical Communications Terminal

John Glenn launched from Launch Complex 14 on 1962-02-20 on the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission and became the first American to orbit Earth.

Mentioned as: Mercury SystemsNarrative GeneralMar 14, 2023Stoke Space Allocated Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

John Glenn launched on Mercury-Atlas 6 from SLC-14 in February 1962, becoming the first American to orbit the Earth.

Mentioned as: Mercury SystemsNarrative GeneralMar 10, 2023Space Force allocates three historic Cape Canaveral launch pads to four companies

John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth on 1962-02-20, launching from Launch Complex 14 on the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission.

Mentioned as: mercuryTechnical ProductMar 7, 2023Stoke Space allocated historic launch complex at Cape Canaveral SFS

A Northrop Grumman SSIRU was on board NASA’s MESSENGER mission that launched in 2004 to fly by and photograph Mercury and later fly around Venus in 2006.

Mentioned as: Mercury SystemsNarrative GeneralDec 22, 2022Northrop Grumman Space Navigation Systems achieves 65 million hours and keeps on going

Mercury Systems’ 8GB DDR4 components offer 75% space savings compared to alternative memory options.

Mentioned as: Mercury SystemsNarrative GeneralNov 16, 2022Mercury sets forth radiation-tolerant 8GB DDR4 memory for space missions
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