PITTSBURGH, PA – Telophase is skilled in providing high quality information assurance services. Our expertise has been effectively employed at multiple NASA centers for the past ten years and leveraged by the Agency for continuous and on demand high profile security assessments for mission systems such as Hubble Space Telescope, James Webb Space Telescope and Near Space Network. Various aspects of our information assurance services and tools continue to be employed at multiple NASA centers and commercial programs. The combination of skilled experienced, knowledgeable SMEs fluent in NIST Special Publications, Federal policies and handbooks, and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) information security guidelines along with deep technical acumen provide a complete evaluation of information system risk posture for our clients.
Over the last year, Telophase personnel have provided information security expertise support for a commercial Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania based company, Astrobotic Technology. We have a deep history in supporting space missions in multiple core areas including information security for NASA which was a natural fit for Astrobotic Technology. Our team assisted the Astrobotic technical team Mission Operations Center (MOC) security systems achieve a NASA Authorization To Operate (ATO). This ATO milestone success required full due diligence, close collaboration, multiple assessments, adherence and compliance with NASA security standards and policies in alignment with continuous security standard implementations by the Astrobotic technical team. The granting of an ATO by NASA is an important and required milestone in the Astrobotic MOC mission life cycle in support of the spacecraft being developed by Astrobotic known as the Griffin lander. The NASA Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) mission payload will be delivered to the moon by the Griffin lunar lander in late 2024. Telophase personnel continue to support the Astrobotic technical team with the MOC and NASA security standards and policies.
Astrobotic Technology is an American private company that is developing space robotics technology for lunar and planetary missions. Astrobotic received a contract for the NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program to take VIPER to the Moon, aiming for a landing in late 2024. CLPS is part of NASA’s Artemis, its human spaceflight program that plans to achieve a first landing on the lunar south pole by 2025. The Astrobotic Griffin lander is targeted to land in the south polar region of the Moon in 2024. NASA’s VIPER is the primary payload on the Astrobotic Griffin lander. VIPER will investigate regions of craters located in the moon’s south pole, particularly for deposits of water ice that could be used as resources for future human spaceflight missions. VIPER will search the moon for the location and concentration of ice that could help deliver the first global water resource maps of the Moon. It will also discover future landing sites for astronaut Artemis missions and help find locations and how water can be harvested.
