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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Bishop is a commercial airlock module developed by Nanoracks, installed on Node 3 of the ISS.
Nanoracks is providing the launch opportunity and managing on-orbit operations for the GITAI robot demonstration.
Nanoracks CEO Jeffrey Manber emphasized the purpose of the Bishop Airlock is to provide increased commercial access to the ISS and support complex, customizable projects.
GITAI is the world’s first private company to conduct a technical demonstration of a space robot in collaboration with Nanoracks.
GITAI's S1 robot will operate autonomously with some teleoperations from Nanoracks’ in-house mission control.
Nanoracks provides the launch opportunity to the ISS through their Space Act Agreement with NASA.
GITAI, a space robotics start-up, will conduct a technical demonstration of its S1 robot inside the Nanoracks Bishop airlock module on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2021.
DIU issued a second award to Nanoracks for $389,900 in late 2019 for the Orbital Outpost project.
The NG-12 Cygnus is carrying an oven developed by Nanoracks and Zero Gravity Kitchen to test baking foods in space, with the first use to bake cookies in partnership with hotel chain DoubleTree.
Nanoracks plans to conduct an on-orbit robotic cutting test of a material representative of an upper stage on 2019-10-22 using a self-contained hosted payload.
Nanoracks is working under a 2018 NASA contract to study the commercial case for repurposing in-space hardware.
Nanoracks announced the agreement with Maritime Launch Services on 2019-10-23 at the International Astronautical Congress.
NovaWurks developed HISats for the NASA SIMPL mission and NanoRacks deployed SIMPL from the International Space Station in 2017.
NanoRacks plans to send the Bishop airlock to the space station in 2020 on SpaceX Commercial Resupply Service mission 21.
NanoRacks is developing the Bishop Airlock Module to offer space access for larger satellites seeking to fly off the space station.
Momentus plans a 2020 test launch of Vigoride by sending a satellite into orbit through NanoRacks’ Kaber Microsat Deployer on the space station.
NanoRacks plans to send the Bishop Airlock Module to the International Space Station in 2020.
NanoRacks experienced disputes in 2009 over how a private company could operate on a taxpayer-funded platform, set its own prices, and retain revenue.
NanoRacks facilitated the sending of a science experiment from the Beijing Institute of Technology to the International Space Station on a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch in 2017.
NanoRacks estimates $40,000,000 could build a 'T' docking node that would provide three or more additional docking locations on the International Space Station.