Gravitics is a space infrastructure company that designs and manufactures large space structures, including orbital carriers, cargo logistics spacecraft, and space station modules. The company's primary product is the StarMax module, which comes in various sizes to accommodate different launch vehicles and mission requirements, utilizing shipyard-style fabrication methods. Gravitics has key customers and partners like Axiom Space and the U.S. Space Force, focusing on both commercial and national security applications. Associated keywords include commercial space stations, space station modules, in-space manufacturing, and tactically responsive space.
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Colin Doughan is the CEO of Gravitics and developing and manufacturing commercial space station modules is a core company mission.
Gravitics will continue to develop and manufacture commercial space station modules as the core of its company mission.
The SBIR contract to Gravitics is a direct to phase 2 award delivered in partnership with Space Systems Command’s Space Safari Program Office.
Rocket Lab USA, True Anomaly, Space Exploration Engineering, and Eta Space will assist Gravitics in refining mission architecture, developing use-case-specific outfitting, and developing flight hardware under the contract.
Under the SpaceWERX contract, Gravitics will leverage its commercial space station product architecture to develop orbital platforms that enable rapid and flexible response options for the United States Space Force.
Gravitics won a $1,700,000 Small Business Innovation Research contract from SpaceWERX on 2024-04-25.
Gravitics, Inc. was awarded a $1,700,000 Small Business Innovation Research Direct-to-Phase II contract from SpaceWERX.
NASA rejected CCSC-2 proposals from Gravitics, Orbital Assembly (now Above: Orbital), and Space Villages (now Orbital Outpost) due to weaknesses in their technical and business approaches.
Gravitics’ StarMax module design would offer 400 cubic meters of pressurized volume in a rigid 7.6-meter-diameter configuration, about 40% of the entire ISS volume.
Gravitics will work with mPower Technology to provide solar power for its StarMax modules.
Gravitics’ StarMax™ is a flexible-use space station module that provides up to 400 cubic meters of usable habitable volume.