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Ozmens’ SNC Supports NASA on SNC’s 14th Mission to Mars
July 28, 2020
Sierra Nevada Corporation has contributed eight unique components being used on NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, including parts that enable the rover’s safe and stable descent onto the Martian surface. This is the 14th Mars mission that SNC has supported through its critical parts and components.
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Years of Perseverance: SNC Contributes to Mars 2020 Rover
July 28, 2020
NASA is soon expected to launch the Perseverance rover on its Mars 2020 mission. While the rover is currently being prepped for launch, its build wasn’t an overnight event. It took…
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SNC Descent Brake Helps Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Land
July 27, 2020
While SNC contributed eight mechanisms for the rover itself, we also created a mechanism for the sky crane called the descent brake. Without the descent brake, the rover could not safely land on the surface of Mars.
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SNC Components Play Crucial Role in Getting Mars 2020 Helicopter Airborne
July 24, 2020
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) is playing a crucial part in getting Ingenuity airborne. SNC developed a device that will be used to assist in the deployment of the helicopter once the rover arrives on Mars.
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Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover: SNC’s Role in the next NASA Mars Mission
July 21, 2020
This summer, NASA’s newest Mars rover, Perseverance, is expected to take off for the red planet. SNC provided eight unique components that have been used in 17 applications on the rover.
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How Sierra Nevada Corporation was selected to build components for Perseverance
July 20, 2020
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) proudly designed, developed and built eight mechanisms to be included throughout NASA's Perseverance rover.
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Ozmens’ SNC Selected by the Department of Defense to Design, Develop Unmanned Orbital Outpost Prototype
July 14, 2020
Sierra Nevada Corporation was awarded a contract to repurpose SNC’s Shooting Star transport vehicle as a proposed commercial solution for an Unmanned Orbital Outpost – essentially a scalable, autonomous space station for experiments and logistics demonstrations – by the Defense Innovation Unit.
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Taking out the (Space) Trash with SNC Mechanical Engineer, Joe K.
July 08, 2020
We caught up with mechanical engineer, Joe K., to learn how he and his team are taking a product some of us use every day on Earth, a trash compactor, and turning into technology astronauts can use on-orbit to help with all that space waste.
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Ozmens' SNC Selected as AC/MC-130J RFCM Integrator by U.S. Special Operations Command
July 02, 2020
Sierra Nevada Corporation was selected by the U.S. Special Operations Command as the supplier for the AC-130J and MC-130J Radio Frequency Countermeasure (RFCM) program.
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In the News: Sierra Nevada Wins Advanced Airborne Countermeasure Program
July 01, 2020
Sierra Nevada on July 1 captured a $700 million program to develop and install an advanced suite of radio frequency countermeasures (RFCM) bolstered by machine learning algorithms for the U.S. Special Operations Command's (SOCOM) fleets of Lockheed Martin AC-130J and MC-130J aircraft.
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In the News: EMARSS-V Prototype scheduled for Delivery
June 26, 2020
The Army is scheduled to take delivery of the Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance System – Vehicle and Dismount Exploitation Radar prototype on June 30 at the Sierra Nevada Corporation Hagerstown, Maryland facility.
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TPS Tiles Bonded to Dream Chaser® Spaceplane
June 24, 2020
The Thermal Protection System (TPS) tiles that cover the outside of Dream Chaser have arrived at our Louisville, Colorado production center and our engineers and technicians have started bonding them to the vehicle.
