Frontier Aerospace Corporation is a developer of rocket propulsion technologies, specializing in liquid rockets for lunar landers, on-orbit servicing, hypersonics, and satellite applications. As a manufacturer, Frontier Aerospace provides booster rocket engine components, reaction control thrusters, and deep space exploration thrusters. Their engines are used in missile defense, space transportation, and earth observation satellites. The company's TALOS thrusters are designed to reduce costs for NASA and commercial spacecraft destined for the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
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Frontier Aerospace completed the design of attitude control thrusters developed with NASA and Astrobotic Technologies for deep space missions.
Since its establishment in 2014, Frontier Aerospace has been developing bipropellant thrusters for spacecraft and lunar landers.
Frontier Aerospace has been developing and testing rocket engines fueled by nitrogen oxides mixed with monomethyl hydrazine through NASA’s TALOS program.
Frontier Aerospace’s 700-lbf engines will be used to brake Griffin into lunar orbit and to perform a safe descent to a soft touchdown on the lunar surface.
Frontier Aerospace will deliver five 700-lbf engines for the Griffin lander that build on the legacy of its F500E engine design.
Frontier Aerospace Corporation was selected by NASA’s Space Technology and Mission Directorate for a Tipping Point award to provide flight qualification of Frontier’s Deep Space Engine that uses MON-25/MMH propellant.
Frontier Aerospace won a $1,900,000 contract to demonstrate its main engine on Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander first flight in 2020.
The Peregrine main engines are supplied by subcontractor Frontier Aerospace, a California company that developed the engines under a NASA contract.