Above Space Development Corporation is an early-stage space technology company that aims to build space platform hardware by leveraging commercial off-the-shelf products. The company designs adaptable space-based platforms for commercial and U.S. Department of Defense customers, with the goal of enabling a thriving space-based economy. They offer hosted payload and data services, along with mission-ready consulting, and have secured contracts with NASA and the U.S. Air Force. Key activities include developing automated systems, free-flyer platforms, and habitable platforms, and they are planning future space stations with variable gravity.
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Space Development Corporation has achieved 'Awardable' status through the DARPA Expedited Research Implementation Series (ERIS) Marketplace.
Space Development Corporation, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Above: Orbital, will test the performance and durability of its proprietary materials in low Earth orbit aboard the International Space Station on the Materials International Space Station Experiment MISSE-19 mission in March flown on SpaceX Dragon resupply mission SPX-30.
Above: Space Development Corporation was awarded a Small Business Innovation Research Program Phase I Award from the United States Air Force to develop a solar heated crucible for the manufacturing of lightweight, thin-film solar photovoltaics on-orbit.