QinetiQ North America has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Analex Corporation, was awarded a three-year option to continue providing launch support services to the National Aeronautical and Space Administration's (NASA) Launch Services Program.

The option is valued at approximately $90 million.

Under this contract, Analex Corporation provides engineering, telemetry, communications, safety and mission assurance and other technical services for NASA's Atlas, Delta, Pegasus, Taurus and Falcon rockets.

The work is performed at NASA's Kennedy Space Center and the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, and other launch sites and NASA resident offices.

Commenting on the contract extension, Michael G. Stolarik, President, QinetiQ North America's Mission Solutions Group and Analex, said: "This extension continues our long partnership with NASA. We continue to support NASA's complex, mission-related engineering requirements with the high level of performance the space agency has come to expect from QinetiQ North America."

The QinetiQ North America Mission Solutions Group provides mission-critical engineering, IT and security support services to customers in the intelligence, space, defense and homeland security communities.