50 SMT007 MAGAZINE I MARCH 2024
After Three Years on Mars, NASA's
Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Ends E
Aer its 72nd flight on Jan. 18, 2024, NASA's
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured this color
image showing the shadow of a rotor blade
damaged during a rough landing. NASA's his-
tory-making Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has
ended its mission at the Red Planet aer sur-
passing expectations and making dozens more
flights than planned. While the helicopter
remains upright and in communication with
ground controllers, imagery of its Jan. 18 flight
sent to Earth this week indicates one or more of
its rotor blades sustained damage during land-
ing and it is no longer capable of flight.
NOAA's Newest Weather Satellite From
Lockheed Martin Arrives in Florida to
Begin Launch Preparations E
e next-generation Geostationary Opera-
tional Environmental Satellite (GOES)-U has
successfully arrived at Kennedy Space Cen-
ter, Florida, to begin preparing for its spring
launch. It is the final of four satellites in the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis-
tration (NOAA)'s GOES-R weather satellite
series.
NASA Puts Next-Gen Exoplanet-Imaging
Technology to the Test E
e Coronagraph Instrument on NASA's Nancy
Grace Roman Space Telescope will dem-
onstrate new technologies that could vastly
increase the number of planets outside our solar
system (exoplanets) that scientists can directly
observe. Designed and built at the agency's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California,
it recently passed a series of critical tests ahead
of launch.
U.S. Army Selects CACI for $382 Million
Signals Intelligence and Electronic
Warfare Systems Task Order E
CACI will provide advanced soware and full
life cycle support for the Trojan family of sys-
tems across the Army military intelligence
enterprise at all echelons. CACI will deliver
and enable cutting-edge intelligence collec-
tion, processing, exploitation, and dissemi-
nation (CPED) capabilities through dynamic
data fusion and adaptable soware solutions
to ensure information advantage for multi-
domain operations.
Airbus Boosts 'Make in India,' Awards
Additional Manufacturing Contracts E
Demonstrating on its 'Make in India' com-
mitment, Airbus has signed contracts with
Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) and
Mahindra Aerospace Structures Private Lim-
ited (MASPL) to procure commercial aircra
components.
Honeywell to Invest $84 Million
in Expansion of Kansas Aerospace
Manufacturing Facility E
is expansion will create one of Honeywell's
most technologically advanced aerospace
manufacturing facilities. e 560,000-square-
foot facility currently manufactures compo-
nents for Honeywell's avionics, safety and
flight control systems and complex radio fre-
quency systems for traffic collision avoidance,
radar altimeters, and weather radar.
