washingtonNASA announced that it will partner with seven US companies for its upcoming human space flight and commercial low earth orbit economy. These companies are Blue Origin, Northrup Grumman Systems Corporation, Sierra Space Corporation, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, Special Aerospace Services, ThinkOrbital and Vast Space.
Phil McAllister, director of commercial spaceflight at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., said in a statement, “It’s great to see companies investing their own capital towards innovative commercial space capabilities, and we’ve seen these types of partnerships How to benefit both the private sector and NASA.”
“Companies can take advantage of NASA’s vast knowledge and experience, and the agency may be a customer for capabilities included in future agreements. Ultimately, these agreements will spur more competition for services and more providers for innovative space capabilities.”
NASA selected these proposals based on an evaluation of their relevance to achieving agency goals and their ability to provide the requested resource, as well as the feasibility of the company’s business and technical approach. Each side bears the cost of its participation through agreements.
Blue Origin and SpaceX’s partnership with NASA aims to develop an integrated commercial space transportation capability, including Starship, Dragon. Northrup Grumman is collaborating with NASA to provide autonomous and robotic capabilities for commercial science research and manufacturing capabilities in low Earth orbit. Sierra Space is partnering with NASA to develop the company’s commercial low Earth orbit ecosystem, which includes the next generation of space transportation. Special Aerospace Services is collaborating with NASA on in-space servicing technology, propulsion and robotic technology. ThinkOrbital is collaborating with NASA on the development of ThinkPlatforms.
Vast Space is partnering with NASA on the technologies and operations needed for its microgravity and artificial gravity stations. The companies are also part of NASA’s second collaboration for the Commercial Space Capabilities-2 initiative (CCSC-2) – advancing commercial space-related efforts through NASA contributions of technical expertise, assessments, lessons learned, technologies and data designed for.
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