Astrotech Corp. (ASTC) Space Operations-California Awarded Task Order Contract by NASA for OCO-2 Spacecraft Processing
Astrotech, a leading provider of commercial space services, announced that Astrotech Space Operations (ASO), a subsidiary of Astrotech Corporation, has been awarded a NASA task order contract to provide payload processing services for the Orbiting Carbon Observatory – 2 (OCO-2) satellite at ASO’s Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, facility. OCO-2 marks the first mission awarded by NASA since the implementation of the current Not-to-Exceed $16 million Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) task order contract that runs through December, 2017. The first dedicated Earth remote sensing satellite to study atmospheric carbon dioxide from space, The Jet Propulsion Lab satellite is scheduled for launch in…