ILC Dover is a special engineering development and manufacturing company that specializes in the use of high-performance flexible materials, serving the aerospace, personal protection, and pharmaceutical industries. Best known for making space suits for NASA, ILC Dover outfitted every United States astronaut in the Apollo program, including the twelve that walked on the Moon. It also designs and manufactures the Space Suit Assembly portion of the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), airbag landing devices, and inflatable habitats. Key partners and customers include NASA, Sierra Space, and Boeing.
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ILC Dover is part of a team led by Collins Aerospace that NASA selected in June 2022, along with Axiom Space, to develop spacesuits through the Exploration Extravehicular Activity Services program.
The purchase price for ILC Dover could increase by $75,000,000 based on ILC Dover’s 2024 results.
Ingersoll Rand will acquire ILC Dover for $2,325,000,000 in cash.
The Collins Aerospace-led team including ILC Dover and Axiom Space is developing a suit intended to replace the Extravehicular Mobility Unit spacesuits used for spacewalks outside the International Space Station.
Sierra Space designed, manufactured, assembled, and tested its first full-scale expandable space station structure in collaboration with exclusive softgoods technology partner ILC Dover.
Sierra Space and ILC Dover designed and tested Vectran straps at the component and sub-scale levels prior to the full-scale UBP test.
The partnership discussion between Sierra Space and ILC Dover on supporting LIFE work expanded to include cooperation on spacesuit development.
ILC Dover is a company that designs and produces space exploration technology including Launch, Entry, and Abort (LEA) suits, Extravehicular Activity (EVA) suits, and Planetary Exploration Suits.
ILC Dover has provided spacesuit and space systems technology since 1947.
Collins Aerospace, a Raytheon Technologies business, along with teammates ILC Dover and Oceaneering, have been selected to produce NASA’s next-generation spacesuit.
ILC Dover collaborated with Sierra Nevada Corp. to produce the habitat’s durable fabric for the inflatable structure.