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In the News: New Tool Developed to Improve Pilot Visibility
August 01, 2020
Special Operations Command and the Army are adopting new technology to improve visibility during flight operations in degraded conditions. Sierra Nevada Corp. was selected for the third phase of the degraded visual environment pilotage system competition following a 2015 airborne test.
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In the News: How Disposable Trash Haulers May Become Orbital Outposts for the Pentagon
July 29, 2020
One contract, awarded by the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit and announced mid-July of this year, went to the Sierra Nevada Corporation (not the beer), whose existing technology is just a few steps away from the desired unmanned orbital outposts.
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In the News: Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover launching Thursday includes 8 components made in Durham
July 29, 2020
When NASA launches its 2020 Mars Rover Perserverance Thursday, July 30, it will include eight components used with 17 applications developed by the Sierra Nevada Corp’s (SNC) Durham office.
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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.
