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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The arrangement includes plans to launch Yuri’s ScienceTaxi on board Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser beginning in 2024 on a mission to the International Space Station.
Sierra Space has delivered multiple SMT solar panels for GEO and LEO missions with significant flight heritage on a 250-watt spacecraft that has operated in LEO for over a year.
Sierra Space is building the LIFE™ (Large Flexible Integrated Environment) habitat at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a three-story commercial habitation and science platform designed for LEO.
Sierra Space’s current plans for Orbital Reef call for launching the first modules in 2027.
Dream Chaser and LIFE™ are central components to Orbital Reef, a mixed-use business park in LEO being developed by principal partners Sierra Space and Blue Origin.
Dream Chaser is under construction at Sierra Space’s Colorado headquarters and is expected to launch in 2023 on the first of a series of NASA missions to the International Space Station.
The Orbital Reef team led by Sierra Space and Blue Origin completed a System Definition Review with NASA.
Sierra Space describes Orbital Reef’s planned capabilities to include microgravity factories and services intended to support economic growth.
Sierra Space has delivered multiple SMT solar panels for GEO and LEO missions, including panels on a 250 W spacecraft that has operated in LEO for over a year.
Sierra Space has supplied high-end engineered subsystems and components for the space industry for 35 years, delivering thousands of devices on hundreds of missions with 100 percent on-orbit success.
The iSpace HAKUTO-R lander delivered more than 800 W on the first of several landers using Sierra Space technology.
Sierra Space is testing inflatable modules that it is developing for the Orbital Reef station.
Jeff Davis led the Flight Operations team that contributed to Cargo Resupply Services 2 program milestones and helped architect Sierra Space’s Mission Control Center and approach to plan, train, and fly Sierra Space missions.
Sierra Space developed the Dream Chaser vehicle that will initially deliver cargo to the International Space Station.
Sierra Space created an eight-person National Security Advisory Group and announced its creation on 2022-07-26.
Sierra Space signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Turkish Space Agency and ESEN Sistem Entegrasyon on 2022-06-29.
Orbital Reef is a mixed-use business park in low Earth orbit being developed by principal partners Sierra Space and Blue Origin and is expected to be operational by 2027.
Sierra Space secured $1,400,000,000 in Series A capital in November 2021, representing the largest Series A capital raise in 2021 and the industry’s second-largest private capital raise in history.
The Series A investment in Sierra Space was led by General Atlantic, Coatue, and Moore Strategic Ventures with participation from funds and accounts managed by BlackRock Private Equity Partners and AE Industrial Partners.
The MOU between Sierra Space and Spaceport America commits both parties to pursue a Part 433 reentry site operator’s license for Spaceport America from the FAA.