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Providing spacesuits to NASA as a service under the Exploration Extravehicular Activity Services contracts allows Collins Aerospace and Axiom Space to offer the suits to other customers such as companies developing commercial space stations.
NASA awarded contracts in June to Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace to provide spacesuits to NASA for both International Space Station and Artemis lunar missions.
Collins Aerospace opened an 11,000-square-meter facility in Houston on 2022-08-31 for spacesuit development.
NASA has partnered with Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace to develop next-generation spacesuits with improved life support, communications, and extra mobility.
Slingshot Aerospace was launched in 2017 and maintains offices in Austin, Texas; El Segundo, California; Colorado Springs, Colorado; and Fort Collins, Colorado.
NASA awarded contracts to teams led by Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace on 2022-06-01 to develop new spacesuits for International Space Station spacewalks and Artemis lunar landing missions through the Exploration Extravehicular Activity Services (xEVAS) program.
Collins Aerospace received a mission suitability score of 829 out of 1,000 in the xEVAS evaluation.
Vanessa Wyche, director of Johnson Space Center and the source selection authority, made the 2022-05-03 decision to select Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace for the xEVAS awards.
Collins Aerospace’s offered price for xEVAS was 2% below NASA’s independent government cost estimate.
Collins Aerospace’s international variant of the ARC-210 architecture, the AR-1500, is deployed with customers in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.
Collins Aerospace, a Raytheon Technologies business, along with teammates ILC Dover and Oceaneering, have been selected to produce NASA’s next-generation spacesuit.
Collins Aerospace designed the spacesuit that NASA astronauts currently use for extravehicular activity outside the International Space Station.
Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace will own the suits they develop under the xEVAS contracts and may rent those suits to NASA and offer them to other customers.
NASA selected Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace on 2022-06-01 for Exploration Extravehicular Activity Services (xEVAS) contracts to support development of new spacesuits and to purchase spacesuit services.
Collins Aerospace’s Iridium SATCOM solution will provide business aviation and air transport customers with faster speeds, lower weight, and a smaller antenna footprint than legacy SATCOM systems, enabling minimum drag and lower power usage.
Collins Aerospace completed multiple tests in 2020 and 2021 in which its ALGA and HGA successfully connected to and transmitted data to an orbiting Iridium satellite.
Collins Aerospace’s Iridium Connected aviation terminals will enable commercial, business, and government aircraft to receive graphical weather updates, transmit aircraft telematics, and provide future cockpit safety services at the higher speeds of Iridium Certus.
The Collins Aerospace HF Cellular system provides the Brazilian Army with a way to obtain real-time position reporting through HF.
The Collins Aerospace HF Cellular system provides transmission distances of more than 2,400 km.
Networking Collins Aerospace’s URG-IV HF fixed site radio stations with a Collins Aerospace HF Cellular server and integrating with existing infrastructure will enable mobile HF users to achieve a first-time point-to-point call connection rate estimated to be above 95 percent in the Amazon region.