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 of Sioux Falls, South Dakota
- Angstrom Designs of Santa Barbara, California
- Astrobotic Technology of Pittsburgh
- Astro Digital US of Santa Clara, California
- Blue Origin Texas of Van Horn, Texas
- Galactic Enterprises of Las Cruces, New Mexico
- Loft Orbital Federal of Golden, Colorado
- Momentus Space of San Jose, California
- Near Space Corp., of Tillamook, Oregon
- Rocket Lab USA of Long Beach, California
- Space Exploration Technologies Corp., of Hawthorne, California
- Spire Global Subsidiary of Vienna, Virginia
- Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems of Irvine, California
- Varda Space Industries of El Segundo, California
- World View Enterprises of Tucson, Arizona
The contracts are in support of NASA's Flight Opportunities and Small Spacecraft Technology programs, both part of 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.
Click here to learn more about Flight Platforms through NASA's Flight Opportunities Program.
