Sierra Space is a commercial space company focused on building an end-to-end business and technology platform in space. It is developing the Dream Chaser spaceplane for cargo transport to low Earth orbit and is also working with Blue Origin on the Orbital Reef commercial space station, contributing its LIFE (Large Integrated Flexible Environment) habitat modules. Sierra Space partners with organizations like NASA, the U.S. Air Force, and commercial entities for space transportation, destination, and application-related activities. Associated keywords include space transportation, commercial space stations, space technology, Dream Chaser, and LIFE habitat.
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Sierra Space established a specialized test lab in Florida to design, build, and test new space vehicle technologies for the defense market.
Sierra Space partnered with Blue Origin on the construction of a commercially developed space station.
Sierra Space has $1,300,000,000 worth of defense-related orders.
Sierra Space launched Sierra Space Axelerator, an innovation-at-speed incubator designed to fast-track the development of defense technologies and mission solutions.
Since standing up the Orbital Missions and Services group, Sierra Space has been awarded $1,300,000,000 in prime satellite constellation contracts.
In January 2024, the Space Development Agency awarded Sierra Space a $740,000,000 prime contract for 18 Tranche 2 satellites to accelerate capabilities for global persistent indications, detection, warning, and tracking of conventional and advanced missile threats, including hypersonic missiles.
Sierra Space's Dream Chaser is a lifting body spaceplane intended to launch inside the payload fairing of a ULA Vulcan Centaur rocket.
Sierra Space is developing a crewed version of Dream Chaser to ferry astronauts to commercial space stations.
GEOST will provide Sierra Space with 16 Mercury missile warning and missile tracking payloads for Tracking Layer Tranche 2.
GEOST will provide Sierra Space with two Phoenix fire control payloads for multi-domain missile defense on Tracking Layer Tranche 2.
GEOST has been awarded the opportunity to provide mission payloads as a subcontractor under prime awardee Sierra Space for the Space Development Agency’s Tracking Layer Tranche 2 program.
GEOST will provide Sierra Space with two Phoenix fire control payloads for multi-domain missile defense on the SDA Tracking Layer Tranche 2 program.
GEOST is a subcontractor under prime awardee Sierra Space for the Space Development Agency’s Tracking Layer Tranche 2 missile warning and tracking satellites.
GEOST will provide Sierra Space with 16 Mercury missile warning and missile tracking payloads for the SDA Tracking Layer Tranche 2 program.
The Space Development Agency awarded contracts on 2024-01-16 to L3Harris, Lockheed Martin, and Sierra Space for the Tracking Layer Tranche 2 constellation with a combined value of about $2,500,000,000.
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.
Sierra Space performed a burst test of a full-sized version of its Large Integrated Flexible Environment (LIFE) module on a test stand at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center on 2024-01-22.
Sierra Space plans additional tests of LIFE technology 2024, including work on the atmospheric barrier and micrometeoroid and orbital debris layers of the module.
Sierra Space has secured approximately $1,300,000,000 in next-generation space-based national security programs.