Hamilton Sundstrand wins NASA contract
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WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. -- NASA has selected Hamilton Sundstrand to be the prime contractor for a space program that could be worth more than $800 million over 10 years.
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The US space agency gives the contract to build its new spacecraft Orion to Lockheed Martin.
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NASA has given the go-ahead to a Canadian firm to work on a possible robot-salvage mission to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The contract is valued at &#36;154 million and builds on the space robotics work of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) Ltd through its MD Robotics group in Brampton, Ontario.
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A privately built rocket plane has won a 10 million US dollar prize for the first commercially viable manned spacecraft. Space Ship One has touched down in a US desert after
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A British multimillionaire, Richard Branson, has just signed a substantial contract with the makers of SpaceShipOne for the development and construction of passenger-carrying space vehicles.
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MOJAVE, CALIF. - A privately built and operated spacecraft roared out of the atmosphere on Wednesday with a historic flight that brings the team one step closer to winning a $10-million US prize.
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The designer of the SpaceShipOne vessel, which cracked the barrier to manned commercial space flight earlier this year, signs a deal with Virgin Airways' Richard Branson to build more spacecraft based on that design.
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By awarding the contract for the next generation, Orion space exploration vehicle to Lockheed Martin, NASA finally got something right. But will Washington have the political will to complete the trip
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By Seth Borenstein  NASA on Thursday gave a multibillion-dollar contract to build a manned lunar spaceship to Lockheed Martin Corp., the aerospace leader that usually builds unmanned rockets.
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By Marla Matzer Rose, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Feb. 3--A Chicago space-tourism company that might locate operations in Columbus has signed a deal with NASA to help the agency develop space shuttle-type aircraft.   PlanetSpace Inc.
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Sir Richard Branson announces that he has signed an agreement to develop the world&#39;s first privately funded space travel. Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA.
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Northrop Grumman Corp. NOC.N's   Space & Mission Systems business unit is being awarded a U.S.   Navy technical services contract worth up to $686.1 million to   support the U.S. Joint Forces Command's warfighting center, the   Defense Department said on Friday.
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MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. said on Wednesday it has signed a &#36;154 million deal to help NASA's controversial repair mission to fix the aging Hubble Space Telescope.
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By TOMMY GRANDELL    STOCKHOLM, Sweden  -- NASA has agreed to launch its largest scientific balloons from a site in northern Sweden, a spokesman said Tuesday.    To launch them, the Swedish Space Corp., which owns Esrange, has signed a $1.32 million contract with the Swedish construction company NCC to double the size of the present launch pad...
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WASHINGTON -- NASA yesterday gave a multibillion dollar contract to build a manned lunar spaceship to Lockheed Martin Corp. , the aerospace leader that usually builds unmanned rockets.
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Arianespace, the European commercial satellite launch company, announced it had won three contracts to launch US communications satellites.
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Lockheed Martin Corp. has won a   five-year, $3.9 billion contract to design and build a   capsule-like U.S. spacecraft called Orion to take humans back   to the Moon and beyond, the National Aeronautics and Space   Administration said on Thursday.