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NASA Team Award for Space Flight Awareness
On Thursday, April 15th 2021, members of the GSFC FDF Flight Operations team were presented the Team Award for Space Flight Awareness. The award was given as recognition for all of the recent work, analysis, and development of launch abort scenarios that have helped enable the recent and future crewed missions to ensure safe operations…
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Omitron Appraised at ML2 of the CMMI V2.0 for Development
Omitron’s Civil Space Programs division is proud to announce that we have been successfully appraised at Maturity Level 2 (ML2) of the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) V2.0 for Development (DEV). Congratulations to the team for another successful appraisal and demonstrating compliance with the upgraded V2.0 standard.
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Omitron Awarded SBIR Grant from USAF
The Omitron Military Division was recently awarded a Phase-II Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant from the United States Air Force (USAF). Continuation of this effort into Phase-II will push this critical technology closer to implementation and deployment. Omitron is pleased to be able to support the USAF mission through this SBIR and our other…
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Swift Celebrates 15 Years
Omitron congratulates the Swift team for achieving 15 years of groundbreaking science in astrophysics. Omitron developed the Mission Operations Center (MOC) at Penn State, and our Flight Operations Team continues to perform mission operations today. We also provide sustaining engineering support from our Headquarters office in Maryland. Just as the science goals of the mission…
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Raptor Goes Operational for TESS Mission at NASA
On October 31st, 2019, Omitron supported the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Flight Dynamics Facility (FDF) Navigation Operations team in executing NASA’s Transition Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) operations through the Raptor system. This marks the first time that the Raptor scripting services capability was used operationally to generate and deliver mission products. Raptor is a…
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NASA Awards Contract for Flight Dynamics Support Services
NASA has awarded the Flight Dynamics Support Services (FDSS) III contract to OPR, LLC, a joint venture between Omitron, Inc. and Pearl River Technologies. The contract is a small business set-aside that provides flight dynamics support to, and related services for, the Engineering and Technology Directorate’s Mission Engineering and Systems Analysis Division at NASA’s Goddard…
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Omitron Civil Space Programs appraised at CMMI Maturity Level 2
Omitron, Inc. has been appraised at Maturity Level 2 of the CMMI Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)® for Development. The appraisal was performed by MOSAIC Technologies Group, Inc. CMMI® is a capability improvement approach that provides organizations with the essential elements of effective processes that ultimately improve their performance. An appraisal at Maturity Level 2…
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Omitron Wins the NASA Agency-Level 2017 Small Business Prime Contractor of the Year Award
Omitron was selected as the NASA Agency-Level 2017 Small Business Prime Contractor of the Year for our support of the Flight Dynamics Support Services-II (FDSS-II) contract. The award was presented at the NASA Office of Small Business Programs Spring 2018 NASA Industry Forum meeting and presented by Krista Paquin, Acting Deputy Administrator, and Glenn Delgado,…
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Finding an IceCube in space…
A tiny NASA payload, known as IceCube or Earth-1, will demonstrate and validate a new 874-gigahertz submillimeter-wave receiver that could help advance scientists’ understanding of ice clouds and their role in climate change. The remote sensing instrument is capable of providing an accurate assessment of the distribution of atmospheric ice. The IceCube mission – a…
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Omitron delivers new release of TMT software to JPSS
Omitron delivered a new release of the JPSS Integrated Mission Timeline (IMT) software for integration as part of the JPSS ground system, in preparation for the JPSS-1 mission scheduled for launch in 2017. The JPSS IMT is based on Omitron’s TMT (Timeline Management Tool) software product, an innovative web-based tool for the management and planning…