Orbital Assembly Corporation (OAC), now known as Above: Space Development Corporation, is an aerospace company focused on developing large, habitable structures in space. OAC aims to construct the first commercially viable, gravity-capable space stations, such as the Voyager and Pioneer stations, intended for tourism, research, and industrial activities. They plan to offer services including leasable space, manufacturing, data storage, and facilities for space tourism and astronaut training, partnering with organizations like the 100 Year Starship initiative. OAC also explores construction equipment with engineering firms all over the world producing machines and tools designed for Space: Fabrication, Assembly and Construction (FAC).
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The Mantis Space orbital power infrastructure model would add an energy utility layer to on-orbit refueling, satellite servicing, and orbital assembly.
The collaboration seeks to demonstrate orbital assembly's capacity to address contemporary mass and cooling challenges.
The Smart Truss system is a modular structural element designed for orbital assembly and maintenance of space infrastructure.
NASA rejected CCSC-2 proposals from Gravitics, Orbital Assembly (now Above: Orbital), and Space Villages (now Orbital Outpost) due to weaknesses in their technical and business approaches.
Above Space (formerly Orbital Assembly) aims to develop large rotating space stations and secured a $1,700,000 U.S. Space Force contract in March 2023 to work on technologies for deployable structures.
Orbital Assembly has been awarded a $1,700,000 contract by the United States Space Force to develop rapidly deployable on-orbit structural technologies to support electronic equipment.
Phase 3 in 2035 and Phase 4 in 2050 aim for energy generation of 10 megawatts and 2 gigawatts respectively and will require advances in power transmission, orbital assembly capabilities, beam steering accuracy, and transmission architecture.
Rhonda Stevenson is the CEO of Orbital Assembly.
'Our Future in Space' is hosted by Dr. Jeff Greenblatt, a co-founder and vice president of science and research at Orbital Assembly.
Eric Ward is the co-host of the podcast and serves as vice president of engineering design at Orbital Assembly.
Maverick Space Systems, Orbital Assembly Company, and ThinkOrbital received red scores from NASA for both technical approach and business plans in the CLD evaluation.
Orbital Assembly Corporation attributes participation in the CLD program to advancing its timeline for an operable Pioneer Space Station by several years and improving its competitive advantage using artificial gravity.
Orbital Assembly Corporation completed a detailed CLD proposal within the six-week window provided by NASA for proposal submission.
Orbital Assembly Corporation was the first company 2021 to announce a low Earth orbit space station with artificial gravity.
Orbital Assembly is developing large gravity-equipped platforms on orbit between the Earth and the Moon beginning in 2023.
Orbital Assembly will offer hosted payloads on its Gravity Ring uncrewed platform and on its Pioneer Station crewed spacecraft.
LEOcloud and Orbital Assembly have established a partnership to enable public cloud edge computing services hosted on Orbital Assembly’s Gravity Ring and Pioneer Stations.
LEOcloud will enable researchers and commercial entities on board Orbital Assembly’s facilities to run services or application workloads locally in a hybrid cloud environment such as Red Hat OpenShift while collaborating with colleagues on Earth.
Orbital Assembly is designing, constructing, and operating large-scale habitable structures with gravity on-orbit, in cislunar space, and throughout the solar system.
Rogue Space signed Orbital Assembly Corporation as its first customer in June 2021.