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A team headed by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] Space Systems Company (LMSSC) has received a $5.7 million contract from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to compete in the Phase 1 development of their System F6 space technology and demonstration program.
Read MoreAn unqualified success… a conclusion that now thrums with delight through the very soul of folk who work at Boeing, specifically Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, as the firm’s fourth-month demo of the Boeing Orbital Express system in the rigors of space reach their culmination.
Read MoreThe key technologies and work on reducing the technological risk to allow autonomous spacecraft rendezvous and docking to become a reliable reality are being worked on currently by the Naval Research Laboratory’s Naval Center for Space Technology NRL and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DRPA). As a matter of fact, the NRL achieved a key milestone toward this development of autonomous servicing of unaided spacecraft.
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