Exploration Architecture Corporation (XArc), founded in 2007, is a space architecture and engineering company providing consulting services for the design of spaceports, space stations, planetary surface systems, and related terrestrial facilities. XArc focuses on technology development programs for Earth, Moon, and Mars habitation, serving civil, defense, and commercial space exploration markets. CEO Sam Ximenes also founded Astroport Space Technologies, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of XArc, to develop lunar construction technologies, and the non-profit WEX Foundation, advancing space-STEM education.
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Exploration Architecture Corporation (XArc) is a space architecture consulting design and engineering firm established in 2007.
Astroport Space Technologies and Exploration Architecture Corporation (XArc) received a combined $1,300,000 in NASA SBIR/STTR awards.
Exploration Architecture Corporation (XArc) received a Phase 1 STTR contract to develop an autonomous pathfinder surveying robot called Surveyorbot to determine geotechnical characteristics of potential landing sites.
U.S. Transportation Command signed cooperative research and development agreements with SpaceX and Exploration Architecture Corporation in 2020 to study concepts for rapid transportation through space.
U.S. Transportation Command signed a CRADA with Exploration Architecture Corporation (XArc) in April 2020 to advise the command on conditions needed to utilize commercial spaceports.