Nanoracks is a private American in-space services company that builds space hardware and repurposing tools. They are known for facilitating experiments and launching CubeSats to Low Earth Orbit and operate a commercial laboratory on the International Space Station (ISS). Nanoracks also built the Bishop Airlock for launching payloads from the ISS and counts NASA among its major partners/customers. The company's services support microgravity research and small satellite deployment.
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Nanoracks developed and installed the Bishop commercial airlock module on the International Space Station in December, enabling the company to launch more satellites and install external payloads.
Nanoracks operates several lines of business on the International Space Station, including hosting experiments, hosting external payloads, and using the station as a platform for launching small satellites.
Nanoracks is planning for a transition to commercial space stations as the International Space Station begins to retire at the end of this decade.
Nanoracks developed the Bishop commercial airlock that was installed on the International Space Station in December 2020.
Nanoracks works with NASA to fly payloads to the International Space Station and to use the station as a platform for cubesat launches.
Marshall Smith will oversee Nanoracks’ plans to develop free-flyer commercial space stations.
The GITAI and Nanoracks team passed a series of four NASA safety reviews required for the demonstration.
GITAI, in collaboration with Nanoracks, will conduct a technical demonstration of a GITAI robot in 2021.
All operations conducted by the S1 GITAI robotic arm will be autonomous, with some teleoperations from Nanoracks’ mission control center in Houston.
On May 20, 2021, GITAI and Nanoracks succeeded in passing the final safety review (Phase 3) and received official authorization by NASA to launch to the ISS.
Nanoracks is providing the launch opportunity, on-orbit operations, and data downlink for the mission.
The GITAI robot will conduct a technical demonstration of executing various tasks inside the Nanoracks Bishop Airlock.
Nexus’s blockchain wallet payload is installed as a hosted payload on Nanoracks’s commercial platform aboard the International Space Station and includes all data up- and downlinked onboard the ISS.
Each project sent aboard the International Space Station requires extensive safety and security checks and about 1,000 pages of documentation as required by NASA, with Nanoracks acting as gatekeeper and caretaker.
SpaceChain delivered the completed blockchain hardware to Nanoracks upon completion of the work for Nexus.
SpaceChain Foundation developed Nexus’s ethereum multisignature blockchain node payload and delivered the hardware to Nanoracks upon completion.
Nanoracks is a Houston-based satellite operator and space solutions company that hosted Nexus’s blockchain wallet payload on its commercial platform aboard the International Space Station.
Nanoracks is responsible as gatekeeper and caretaker for projects sent aboard the International Space Station and such projects require about 1,000 pages of documentation as required by NASA.
Voyager Space Holdings closed a deal on 2021-05-10 to acquire a majority stake in XO Markets, the parent company of Nanoracks.
Voyager bought a majority stake in Nanoracks in December 2020.