Pandemic Cannot Keep JPL Radar Hardware from Jupiter
October 2020
Another JPL team has proven the Lab can continue to dare mighty things, even amid coronavirus disruptions. Despite the unprecedented hurdles experienced during COVID-19, JPL engineers met a significant milestone by delivering key elements of an ice-penetrating radar instrument for an ESA mission that will explore Jupiter and its three large icy moons... Read more
Jayant Ramakrishnan, Bastion COO and Distinguished Alumni of the Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO was selected as Co-Chair of the AMAE Communications Committee in October 2020... Read more
Bastion Receives Marshall Space Flight Center FY2020 Small Business Prime Contractor of the Year Award
August 2020
NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) awarded Bastion Technologies the MSFC FY2020 Small Business Prime Contractor of the Year Award. This award is the highest small business award given at MSFC. Bastion is being recognized for their outstanding performance on the MSFC Safety and Mission Assurance Services Contract... Read more
Bastion provided vital SSE services toward the Certification of Flight Readiness (CoFR) and successful launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket used for the historic SpaceX Demo Mission 2 on May 31st, 2020... Read more
Sean Phillips, Bastion Quality Engineer, participated in a Virtual Outreach with Girl Scouts of North Central Alabama. He spoke to Girl Scouts ranging from 4th through 12th grades, and helped them earn their Space Science and Space Investigator badges... Read more
NASA Awards SMA Services Contract Modification to Bastion
December 2019
NASA has awarded a contract modification to Bastion Technologies for Safety and Mission Assurance (SMA) services, administered at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama... Read more
Bastion’s SMA Employees Support Thanksgiving Turkey Box Giveaway
December 2019
The Bastion Marshall SMA Team devoted time to the needs of local families in the Huntsville area by passing out “Turkey Boxes” at the Downtown Rescue Mission... Read more
Bastion Employees Award Recipients at the SSC 2019 Honor Awards Ceremony
September 2019
Bastion Employees Took Home 7 Silver Achievement Medals and 33 Honor Awards! Congratulations SSC Team!... Read more
Bastion Supports Recent NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge
June 2019
This year, NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge celebrated both the 50th anniversary of the first Apollo Moon landing and 25 years of competition among students in its engineering design challenge... Read more
Bastion Supports JPL National Small Business Week
May 2019
On May 7th, 2019, Bastion’s JPL MASS Subcontract Office, a member of JPL’s Subcontractor Business Council, participated in the celebration of National Small Business Week at JPL... Read more
Bastion’s Rudy Lopez Receives FOD Director’s Award
May 2019
Congratulations to Rudy Lopez, Neutral Buoyancy Lab (NBL) Test Director (TD), for receiving the FOD Director’s Award from Steve Koerner... Read more
Bastion Sponsors Student Launch Initiative 2019
May 2019
Bastion sponsored the safety award, presented by Dr. Israel Rose, at the 2019 NASA Student Launch Initiative... Read more
Bastion Employees Support AAMU’s 2019 STEM Day
May 2019
Bastion System Safety employees, Gary Eldridge and Pam Millin, eagerly offered their engineering expertise and unbiased judging support for the Alabama A&M University’s recent STEM Day event... Read more
JPL MASS Bastion Volunteers Support High School Engineering Students
February 2019
Bastion JPL MASS volunteers supported students during the 2019 Engineering Week at John Muir High School in Pasadena, California... Read more
Marshall Joins NASA to Pay Tribute to Fallen U.S. Astronauts
February 2019
Marshall Space Flight Center joined NASA field centers across the country on Feb. 7th to pay tribute to the fallen heroes. Former NASA astronaut Jan Davis said Remembrance Day is not just to remember their deaths, but also their extraordinary lives... Read more