Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) is an American aerospace and defense company that participates in space-related activities. Through its subsidiary Sierra Space, it is developing the Dream Chaser spaceplane for cargo resupply missions to the International Space Station (ISS) under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services 2 (CRS-2) contract. SNC also partners with organizations like Blue Origin to develop components for commercial space stations like Orbital Reef. SNC serves customers like NASA and the U.S. Department of Defense, providing solutions in areas such as aircraft modification, space technologies, and integration of space systems.
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United Launch Alliance and Sierra Nevada Corporation included an option to shift Dream Chaser launches to Atlas V if Vulcan experiences delays.
Sierra Nevada Corporation is developing the Dream Chaser vehicle and plans its first cargo mission to the ISS in 2021.
Other PPE bids ranged from $565,900,000 by Northrop Grumman to $768,800,000 by Sierra Nevada Corporation.
NASA awarded study contracts in November 2017 to Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Orbital ATK (now Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems), Sierra Nevada Space Systems, and Space Systems Loral (now Maxar).
Sierra Nevada Corp. is working with an unnamed partner to develop the habitat’s artificial intelligence system.
ILC Dover collaborated with Sierra Nevada Corp. to produce the habitat’s durable fabric for the inflatable structure.
Orbital Technologies Corp., a subsidiary of Sierra Nevada Corp., built the Veggie produce-growing system used on the International Space Station.
Sierra Nevada Corp. is one of six companies working under NASA NextSTEP contracts to produce habitat designs or prototypes.
In September, the Space Rapid Capabilities Office, working with NASA Ames Research Center’s small spacecraft prototyping office, awarded Sierra Nevada Corporation a $119,000,000 contract to develop a satellite to gather cloud and theater imagery until the service finds a long-term solution.
Sierra Nevada Corporation, SpaceX, and Orbital ATK (now Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems) received Commercial Resupply Services 2 contracts from NASA in January 2016.
Completion of Integrated Review 4 cleared Sierra Nevada Corporation to move into assembly of the Dream Chaser vehicle that will deliver cargo to the International Space Station.
Sierra Nevada Corporation completed the Integrated Review 4 milestone in its Commercial Resupply Services 2 contract on 2018-12-18.
The Space Rapid Capabilities Office awarded Sierra Nevada Corporation a $119,000,000 contract on 2018-09-18 to develop a weather satellite for the ORS-8 program.
Maxar Technologies’ SSL, Sierra Nevada Corp., and Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems were selected to compete for future small satellite development contracts that could be worth up to $750,000,000.
Sierra Nevada Corporation lacks experience building large numbers of geostationary-orbit (GEO) satellite buses and instead has experience building smaller LEO satellites including the second-generation Orbcomm constellation.
Stratolaunch and Sierra Nevada Corporation studied in 2014 launching a scaled-down version of Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser from Stratolaunch’s aircraft using an Orbital-developed launch vehicle.
Dream Chaser is a lifting-body vehicle developed by Sierra Nevada Corporation that is based on NASA’s HL-20 design.
Development work on Dream Chaser started at SpaceDev and Sierra Nevada Corporation won NASA funding through the agency’s commercial crew program to support its development.
NASA did not select Dream Chaser for crewed missions but awarded Sierra Nevada Corporation a contract in 2016 to use Dream Chaser for International Space Station cargo resupply services.
Mark Sirangelo had been with Sierra Nevada Corporation since the company’s acquisition of San Diego-based SpaceDev in 2008.