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NanoRacks

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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.

commercialFounded 2009
Webster, Texas, United States
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MySat-2 (DhabiSat) is the second CubeSat built by Khalifa University to be launched by Nanoracks.

RelationshipsPlanValue 3.5Feb 23, 2021Nanoracks launches two CubeSats on NG-15 Cygnus

Nanoracks conducted its ninth mission providing opportunities for CubeSat deployment from the Cygnus spacecraft on NG-15.

PlanGeneralValue 3.0Feb 23, 2021Nanoracks launches two CubeSats on NG-15 Cygnus

Nanoracks provided its ninth mission opportunity for CubeSat deployment from a Cygnus on the NG-15 flight.

RelationshipsPlanValue 4.0Feb 22, 2021Two Smallsats Launched By Nanoracks Via The NG-15 Cygnus Mission

MySat-2 (DhabiSat) is the second CubeSat built by Khalifa University to be launched by Nanoracks.

RelationshipsValue 4.0Feb 22, 2021Two Smallsats Launched By Nanoracks Via The NG-15 Cygnus Mission

After departing the International Space Station, the NG-15 Cygnus spacecraft will deploy several cubesats from two deployment systems provided by Nanoracks and Spaceflight.

PlanRelationshipsValue 4.0Feb 20, 2021Northrop Grumman launches Cygnus cargo spacecraft to space station

The CRS-21 cargo delivered to the station included the Bishop commercial airlock developed by Nanoracks.

RelationshipsCapabilityGeneralValue 4.0Jan 14, 2021Next-generation Dragon cargo spacecraft returns from space station

Nanoracks equipped the International Space Station with the Bishop Airlock in cooperation with NASA, the European Space Agency, and industry partners.

RelationshipsValue 4.0Dec 28, 2020Voyager Space Holdings Intends To Obtain Majority Stake In XO Markets + Nanoracks

Nanoracks launched the Bishop airlock on SpaceX CRS-21 aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket.

PlanCapabilityValue 4.0Dec 28, 2020Voyager Space Holdings Intends To Obtain Majority Stake In XO Markets + Nanoracks

Nanoracks is a commercial space services provider that has launched more than 1,000 projects to the International Space Station, including microgravity research, smallsats, and missions to low Earth orbit and deep space.

CapabilityGeneralValue 4.0Dec 28, 2020Voyager Space Holdings Intends To Obtain Majority Stake In XO Markets + Nanoracks

Nanoracks has launched over 1,000 projects to the International Space Station, including microgravity research, small satellites, and missions to low-Earth orbit and deep space.

CapabilityGeneralValue 3.2Dec 24, 2020Voyager Space Holdings and X.O. Markets announce strategic agreement

Nanoracks launched the Bishop commercial airlock on SpaceX CRS-21 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

RelationshipsValue 4.5Dec 24, 2020Voyager Space Holdings and X.O. Markets announce strategic agreement

Nanoracks began by flying experiments to the International Space Station and later expanded to satellite deployment services including arranging cubesat deployments from the ISS via a Japanese airlock.

GrowthCapabilityValue 3.8Dec 23, 2020Voyager Space Holdings to acquire majority stake in Nanoracks

Voyager Space Holdings is taking a majority stake in XO Markets, the parent company of Nanoracks, in a transaction announced 2020-12-23.

RelationshipsValue 4.4Dec 23, 2020Voyager Space Holdings to acquire majority stake in Nanoracks

The Voyager agreement to take a majority stake in Nanoracks is Voyager Space Holdings’ fourth acquisition since the company started in October 2019.

RelationshipsGrowthValue 4.0Dec 23, 2020Voyager Space Holdings to acquire majority stake in Nanoracks

The ISS demonstration will take place inside Nanoracks' Bishop airlock module, which was launched to the ISS on December 6, 2020.

CapabilityPlanValue 3.5Dec 15, 2020Space robotics start-up GITAI succeeds in ground demonstration of In-Space Assembly tasks with an autonomous robot

The largest payload on CRS-21 is the Bishop airlock built by Nanoracks as a commercial facility for deploying satellites and hosting external payloads.

CapabilityGeneralValue 4.0Dec 6, 2020SpaceX launches first next-generation cargo Dragon spacecraft to ISS

Nanoracks sought to raise $20,000,000 in the funding round, described as almost fully subscribed and expected to close early in the fourth quarter of 2020.

FinancialGrowthValue 4.0Sep 16, 2020Nanoracks finalizing space station airlock and new funding round

Jeffrey Manber tweeted on 2020-09-16 mentioning investment bank Cambridge Wilkinson working with Nanoracks to raise equity for the company’s commercial space efforts.

RelationshipsValue 2.0Sep 16, 2020Nanoracks finalizing space station airlock and new funding round

Nanoracks started development of the Bishop airlock several years prior to its planned 2020 ISS installation to meet growing demand for satellite deployments from the station.

PlanGrowthCapabilityValue 4.0Sep 16, 2020Nanoracks finalizing space station airlock and new funding round

GITAI will be the first commercial company in the world to conduct a technical demonstration of a robot performing versatile tasks within the Nanoracks Bishop airlock in collaboration with Nanoracks.

CapabilityPlanValue 3.5Sep 14, 2020GITAI & JAXA partner to co-create a business concept for the world’s first “Space Robot Business”
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