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 is proposing to launch a standalone pathfinder version of LIFE as soon as the end of 2026.
Blinker uses surface mount technology solar cells from Sierra Space Corporation that are 0.019 m by 0.019 m in size.
The companies selected for CCSC-2 are Blue Origin of Kent, Washington; Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation of Dulles, Virginia; Sierra Space Corporation of Broomfield, Colorado; Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California; Special Aerospace Services of Boulder, Colorado; ThinkOrbital Inc. of Lafayette, Colorado; and Vast Space LLC of Long Beach, California.
Sierra Space Corporation of Broomfield, Colorado is collaborating with NASA to develop a commercial low Earth orbit ecosystem that includes next-generation space transportation, in-space infrastructure, and expandable, tailorable space facilities providing a human presence in LEO.
Sierra Space is collaborating with NASA to develop a commercial low Earth orbit ecosystem that includes next-generation space transportation, in-space infrastructure, and expandable and tailorable space facilities providing a human presence in low Earth orbit.
Sierra Space is building technology, a business platform, and an ecosystem to provide products and services to both government and commercial customers.
NASA awarded Sierra Space a Space Act Agreement under the second Collaborations for Commercial Space Capabilities (CCSC-2) initiative.
Sierra Space received a CCSC-2 agreement to work with NASA on a commercial low Earth orbit ecosystem that includes the Dream Chaser spacecraft and LIFE expandable modules.
CLD companies including Northrop Grumman, Voyager, Blue Origin, Sierra Space, and Axiom are depending on NASA seed funding to develop and build orbital facilities.
Sierra Space powered up Dream Chaser in its assembly facility for the first time on 2023-05-31.
Janet Kavandi, president of Sierra Space, specified a July timeframe for Dream Chaser to ship to the Neil Armstrong Test Facility.
Sierra Space did not disclose a schedule for shipping Tenacity to the test facility, completion of thermal vacuum tests, or final launch preparations in the 2023-05-31 statement.
Sierra Space is establishing a training facility in Florida to train its professional astronauts as well as researchers and private astronauts planning to go to Orbital Reef.
Sierra Space plans to select its own professional astronaut corps upon the first successful landing of Dream Chaser, with an initial group of 12 to 15 people.
Sierra Space will provide cargo resupply missions to the International Space Station under NASA's CRS-2 contract.
Sierra Space in Louisville, Colorado received a 2022 ACO selection to develop low-cost high temperature reusable thermal protection systems with NASA Ames and NASA Johnson.
Sierra Space cited $280,000,000,000 as the annual amount spent on pharmaceutical research and development when describing market demand for biotech-focused space stations.
The partnership discussion between Sierra Space and ILC Dover on supporting LIFE work expanded to include cooperation on spacesuit development.
Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser vehicles will support the company’s commercial space station development and will work with Blue Origin and others on the Orbital Reef station.
Sierra Space is working on two cargo Dream Chasers, with the first scheduled to ship in July to NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Ohio for thermal vacuum, acoustics, and vibration testing and then go to Kennedy Space Center in November for launch on a Vulcan Centaur.