WASHINGTON, March 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — NASA has selected 15 companies to provide flight and payload integration services to advance technologies and procedures for operating in space, including testing in high-altitude, reduced gravity, or other relevant environments. Examples of payloads include NASA science instruments or technology demonstrations.
The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity base contract awards are firm-fixed-price with a total combined value of $45 million and a performance period of five years. The flights and other services covered by these contracts are for use by NASA and other government agencies. The types of platforms that will be used for testing include suborbital rockets, high-altitude balloons, orbital spacecraft and satellites, and, in some instances, suborbital rockets that can accommodate carry people.
The following companies have been awarded contracts to provide services through demonstrated commercial capabilities:
Aerostar International, Inc., of Sioux Falls, South DakotaAngstrom Designs Inc., of Santa Barbara, CaliforniaAstrobotic Technology Inc., of PittsburghAstro Digital US Inc., of Santa Clara, CaliforniaBlue Origin Texas, LLC of Van Horn, TexasGalactic Enterprises, LLC of Las Cruces, New MexicoLoft Orbital Federal, LLC of Golden, ColoradoMomentus Space LLC of San Jose, CaliforniaNear Space Corp., of Tillamook, OregonRocket Lab USA Inc., of Long Beach, CaliforniaSpace Exploration Technologies Corp., of Hawthorne, CaliforniaSpire Global Subsidiary, Inc., of Vienna, VirginiaTyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Inc., of Irvine, CaliforniaVarda Space Industries, Inc., of El Segundo, CaliforniaWorld View Enterprises Inc., of Tucson, Arizona
The contracts are in support of NASA’s Flight Opportunities and Small Spacecraft Technology programs, both part of the NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate at the agency’s headquarters in Washington. These programs support technology development and missions to change the pace of space exploration, discovery, and space commerce.
For information about the flight platforms available through NASA’s Flight Opportunities program, visit:
https://go.nasa.gov/4bRVhtz
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