QNA awarded $190m

Qinetiq North America’s(QNA) Missions Solutions Group (MSG) has been awarded $190m to provide environmental test and integration services to support projects at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

Under the five-year contract, QNA will provide services including cable fabrication, optical services and thermal blanket fabrication for projects that may involve the Hubble Space Telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, the Solar Dynamics Observatory and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

QNA’s Mission Solutions Group will also work with Goddard to ensure that all future spacecraft can endure the environmental hardships of space travel. It will provide thermal and vacuum chamber testing, mechanical and optical integration, equipment recertification, facility operations and maintenance, information technology services, and general integration and testing support to NASA.