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On the AFRL/RV STRAIT Contract, ATA Aerospace Provided I&T, Launch, and On-Orbit Operations for TacSat-3
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ATA Aerospace brings a successful past performance history, established infrastructure, and has a reputation
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ATA Aerospace Personnel Prepare High Altitude Balloon and Capsule for Red Bull Stratos Mission
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Engineers Use a Special Crane to Install the Instrument Deck Onto NASA’s MMS Structure #2"
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ATA Aerospace engineer works on Tactical Satellite-3 at the Space Vehicles Directorate at AFRL, Kirtland AFB
DoD Space Services Division
Headquarters for the DoD Space Services Division (DSSD) is in
Albuquerque, New Mexico. In April 2007, ATA Aerospace’s DSSD won the
Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate’s (AFRL/RV)
Space Technology Research Analysis Integration and Test (STRAIT)
contract. In July 2012, the DSSD successfully won, and is currently
executing on the AFRL/RV Space Technology Research and Integrated
Vehicle Experiments (STRIVE) contract, which is the follow-on to the
STRAIT contract.
Through a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA)
with the AFRL/RV, ATA Aerospace’s DSSD performed the high-altitude
balloon engineering, integration, logistics, test, launch and
recovery services for the record-breaking
Red Bull Stratos Mission to
the Edge of Space
. For the 2012 mission, Austrian skydiver Felix
Baumgartner ascended to over 128,000 feet in a high-altitude balloon
and became the first man to break the speed of sound in freefall.
The mission was a success setting multiple world-records including,
fastest maximum vertical speed (without drogue), highest exit (jump)
altitude, longest distance of freefall (without drogue), largest
balloon ever flown with a human aboard, and highest manned balloon
ascent.