WASHINGTON, 15 May 2013. J.P. Donovan Construction Inc. of Rockledge, Fla., won a NASA contract to modify the mobile launcher designed to enable the agency's Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket to send humans to an asteroid, Mars and other new destinations in the solar system.

HOLLYWOOD, Fla., 7 May 2013. Executives of HEICO Corp. in Hollywood, Fla., are boosting their company's expertise in missile defense and commercial aviation with their acquisition of Reinhold Industries Inc. in Santa Fe Springs, Calif.

WASHINGTON, 27 April 2013. NASA, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. State Department, and Nike have issued a challenge to identify 10 game-changing innovations related to fabric systems.

BAIKONUR COSMODROME, Kazakhstan, 18 April 2013. International Launch Services (ILS), a provider of mission integration and launch services to the global commercial satellite industry, delivered Telesat’s Anik G1 satellite into orbit on an ILS Proton.

PETERSON AFB, Colo., 17 April 2013. Lockheed Martin-developed GPS satellites already in orbit will participate in testing a new modernized civilian navigation message (CNAV) capability designed to enhance GPS navigation service.

HOUSTON, 11 April 2013. The Coalition for Space Exploration, which supports the President’s request of $17.7 billion for NASA in 2014, is concerned it is contingent upon Congressional approval of an alternative sequestration proposed by the President, which if not adopted would reduce the proposed budget by nearly one billion dollars.

WASHINGTON, 10 April 2013. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden unveiled President Obama's Fiscal Year 2014 budget request for NASA, calling it “a $17.7 billion investment in our nation's future.”

HOUSTON, 9 April 2013. Aerospace organizations brought humans another step closer to a return to space with the preliminary design review of the structure designed, by United Launch Alliance (ULA), to join the Boeing (NYSE:BA) Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft to an Atlas V rocket, also from ULA.

WASHINGTON, 3 April 2013. NASA officials seek small spacecraft technology project proposals from U.S. colleges and universities open to collaborating with agency researchers.

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla., 26 March 2013. The U.S. Air Force’s second Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO-2) spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT), was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla., 14 March 2013. Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO-2) spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) engineers, has been encapsulated into its payload fairing  in preparation for a 19 March 2013 liftoff aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.

RICHMOND, BC, 14 March 2013. MacDonald, Dettwiler, and Associates Ltd. (MDA; TSX:MDA), a global communications and information company, won a contract from DigitalGlobe Inc. to deliver a ground station solution that will enable access to information from WorldView satellites.

KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M., 5 March 2013. U.S. Air Force and NASA radiation-hardened microprocessor experts are kicking off a program to define a next-generation rad-hard microprocessor for space applications based on anticipated space computer needs from 2020 to 2030.

LAS CRUCES, N.M., 1 March 2013. General Dynamics C4 Systems engineers have upgraded the ground control system supporting NASA's three, next-generation Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS). 

DENVER, 26 Feb. 2013.  Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) won two U.S. Air Force fixed-price contracts totaling $120 million to procure long lead parts for the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth next-generation Global Positioning System satellites, known as GPS III.

GREENBELT, Md., 13 Feb. 2013. Spacecraft designers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., needed a radiation-hardened space digital processor to demonstrate laser communications relay technology to establish optical communications between geosynchronous satellites and Earth. They found their solution from SEAKR Engineering Inc. in Centennial, Colo.

LONGMONT, Colo., 7 Feb. 2013. DigitalGlobe, having combined with GeoEye last month, intends to complete the construction of GeoEye-2 in 2013 and to preserve it as a ground spare to meet customer demand or as a replacement for other on-orbit satellites. GeoEye management previously had expected to launch GeoEye-2 in 2013.

LONGMONT, Colo., 7 Feb. 2013. DigitalGlobe, having combined with GeoEye last month, also intends to complete the construction of GeoEye-2 in 2013 and to preserve it as a ground spare to meet customer demand or as a replacement for other on-orbit satellites. GeoEye management previously had expected to launch GeoEye-2 in 2013.

WorldView-3, scheduled to launch in mid-2014, is expected to be the first super-spectral, high-resolution commercial satellite.