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Read the latest news about Aerodyne Industries' contracts, projects, awards, leadership, team members, new initiatives and other accomplishments in the aerospace engineering and information technology industry.


Lori McDerby receives Innovation Award for support to the Ignition Overpressure Protection and Sound Suppression Team
Lori McDerby receives Innovation Award Lori McDerby, a Space Launch System (SLS) Imagery Integration Lead for ESSCA, was honored with an...


ISS Life Sciences Processing Quartet earn prestigious KSC and JSC Team Awards
Elizabeth Carter, Trisha Joseph, Kamber Scott & Vanessa Tompkins honored A talented foursome from COMET’s ISS Life Sciences Program...


JPL’s newest Deep Space Network Antenna to be Operational in 2025
Aerodyne’s first Construction Subcontract nears Completion April 13, 2021, was a major milestone in Aerodyne’s storied history, our first...


Trevor Aston, Nathan Hughart and Kyeong Na honored with Team Award for support to VIPER
Trevor Aston, Nathan Hughart and Kyeong Na , teammates on the JETS II contract, were honored with a Team Award for the successful...


ESSCA’s Tony Harrison supports Bama Relief and Recovery Efforts
According to the National Weather Service, on May 8- 9, 2024, north Alabama was hit by 14 tornadoes, including two EF-3s. Storms damaged...


Dhruvi Narielwala supports JSC Women of Engineering STEM Event
Dhruvi Narielwala and her fellow women engineers inspire students at STEM event Dhruvi Narielwala, a Structural Loads and Dynamics...


Three Aerodyne Employees Inducted into the National Space Club-Florida Committee’s Space Worker Hall of Fame Class of 2024
L to R: Neil Mizell, Lee Williams, Marianne Idzi, Jim Stephenson, Marianne Rigolini, David Floyd, Carl McManus and Ralph Rohloff....


COMET’s Dean Kendall makes splash as Titusville High School Swim Coach
For nearly two decades, Dean Kendall , an Electrical Engineer Professional Associate (Hazardous Gas Engineer) for the COMET contract at...


Mike West accepts JSC Group Achievement Award for execution of Fancier Gas Transfer
(L to R): Expedition 70 Crew: Satoshi Furukawa (JAXA), Loral O'Hara (NASA), Andreas Mogensen (ESA), and Jasmin Moghbeli (NASA); Mike...


Aerodyne Employees at Marshall Space Flight Center receive prestigious Space Flight Awareness Award
Brent Hartsfield and Troy Stanley received the prestigious SFA Team Award Brent Hartsfield and Troy Stanley, teammates on the ESSCA...


Peter Dohn earns Trio of Honors
Fuel Bleed Assessment Team (L to R): Peter Dohn, Tim Duquette, Brendan Graham, Hunter Davis, Alex Ifkovits, Austin Jackson, Phin Jones,...


Jim Stephenson leads “first” for COMET Team
Some of the WHC hardware serviced by COMET flew to the ISS aboard NG-21. Jim Stephenson, Flow Manager for COMET, along with a host of his...


James Govern receives Unsung Hero Award
James Govern with son Aiden and daughter Brynn. James Govern, a Systems Engineer for the MIST II contract at the Goddard Space Flight...


BOSS’ Warner Chang supports historic Barge Move
Warner Chang (lower left) and “talented, young engineer,” Hannah Freshcorn of Amentum (lower right), join a NASA bridge engineer to...


COMET Test Conductors support Core Stage offload
Randall Nash (left) and Chad Copeland support from FR 1. It’s not everyday you get to make history in your profession, especially when...


MIST II QA Engineers making History with AR
Eric Brune and Aaron Sanford Eric Brune and Aaron Sanford, a pair of experienced Quality Assurance (QA) Engineers supporting the MIST II...


JETS’ Ross Pettinger and Team 324 Chips conclude successful 2024 Campaign
Ross Pettinger, a Senior Soft-ware Engineering Analyst for JETS II, is a veteran of FIRST Robotics competitions, mentoring elementary,...


JETS’ Ravi Nanayakkara leads Rookie Team to Award-winning Season
Team 9512 receives the Rookie Inspiration Award at the state finals (mentor Ravi Nanayakkara is located on back row, far right). Ravi...


Janicce Harp receives Silver Achievement Medal
(L to R): Janet Petro, KSC Director, Janicce Harp, and Burt Summerfield, KSC Associate Director. Janicce Harp, a Project Integration...


COMET’s Ellen Brown supports STEM Event at KSC
Ellen Brown, a Transformation Principal on the COMET contract at KSC, has more than thirty years of leadership supporting critical NASA...
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