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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Gravitics is a Bellevue-based startup that is building scalable space station modules.
SpaceWERX awarded Gravitics a Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI) contract to accelerate development and demonstration of its Orbital Carrier architecture.
The Gravitics STRATFI contract represents up to $60 million in combined government and private funding.
Gravitics says its Orbital Carrier architecture can sequester satellites in orbit to help operators respond to time-sensitive opportunities and bypass typical launch constraints.
Gravitics' Orbital Carrier architecture is designed to pre-position vehicles in orbit for rapid deployment.
Gravitics will flight-demonstrate a Viper orbital transfer vehicle.
Gravitics will flight-demonstrate a pathfinder Orbital Carrier on a Low-Earth Orbit rideshare mission.
Gravitics’ craft could deploy a jammer or dazzler to prevent an attack on US military satellites without creating debris.
Gravitics was selected for a Space Force STRATFI contract worth up to $60 million to build technology for the Defense Department.
Gravitics' technology can house both assets to protect critical national security satellites and space-based interceptors for Golden Dome.
Gravitics unveiled Diamondback, a smaller orbital carrier designed to fulfill missions from protecting US national security satellites to deploying space-based missile interceptors.
Gravitics built Diamondback based on its commercial spacecraft designed to carry science experiments and other cargo to space stations.
Gravitics' smallest vehicle can hold multiple space-based interceptors depending on size.
Diamondback is the spacecraft that Gravitics will be building under the Space Force STRATFI contract.
Gravitics’ spacecraft can reach any cislunar orbit in 12 hours and some locations in LEO in under two hours.
True Anomaly is supporting Gravitics as a subcontractor on Gravitics’ $1,700,000 SBIR Direct-to-Phase II contract from SpaceWERX.
Gravitics was awarded a $1,700,000 Small Business Innovation Research Direct-to-Phase II contract from SpaceWERX.
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.
Lt Col Jason Altenhofen, Director of Operations for Space Safari, supports using the Gravitics space station module as an unconventional and potentially game-changing solution for TacRS.
Under the SpaceWERX contract, Gravitics will leverage its commercial space station product architecture to develop orbital platforms for rapid and flexible response options for the United States Space Force.