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The Defense Innovation Unit awarded Astra a contract with a ceiling of up to $44,000,000 to support development of Astra’s tactically responsive launch system.
The DIU contract supports advancing and scaling production capabilities of Astra’s tactical launch system to achieve the prototype objective of launching Rocket 4 to orbit or suborbit from the United States, Australia, or other locations.
The Spaceport Company’s offshore launch vessel was funded by a $2,500,000 contract from the Defense Innovation Unit.
Sidus Space, Inc. has completed a Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) contract deliverable and achieved flight heritage status for Arkisys Applique aboard LizzieSat-1.
The DIU is an organization within the U.S. Department of Defense established to accelerate the adoption of commercial technology solutions into the U.S. military.
The Spaceport Company received $1,500,000 last year from the Defense Innovation Unit program National Security Innovation Capital in support of a Liftboat concept for converting offshore oil rigs into floating launch sites.
The Defense Innovation Unit contract announced on 2024-05-28 will fund development of a prototype ocean-going launch complex built on a repurposed U.S. Navy torpedo recovery vessel.
The Spaceport Company landed a $2,500,000 contract from the Defense Innovation Unit.
iDirect Government won a contract from the Defense Innovation Unit to build an operational 0.005 kg co-channel interference mitigation solution prototype.
Blue Origin and the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) announced the DarkSky-1 mission to demonstrate flight systems including space-based processing capabilities, telemetry, tracking and command hardware, and ground-based radiometric tracking.
The Helix Mesh Rider Radio is developed for defense use cases with sponsorship from the Defense Innovation Unit.
SSC Space Safari partnered with DIU to leverage DIU’s commercial market expertise and Commercial Solutions Opening and Other Transaction authority to rapidly award contracts.
DIU awarded a contract to Rocket Lab National Security valued at $32,000,000 for VICTUS HAZE.
The United States Space Force’s Space Systems Command Space Safari Program Office partnered with the Defense Innovation Unit and SpaceWERX to execute the VICTUS HAZE on-orbit space domain awareness demonstration.
A second Muon Space satellite launched 2024-03-04 on the SpaceX Transporter-10 rideshare flight as a prototype weather satellite for the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Weather Systems Branch and the Defense Innovation Unit.
In 2022, Santa Clara-based SpaceBilt flew a prototype Microchip PolarFire RISC-V Linux operating system-based avionics package and data server to the ISS to support flight qualification of robotic connectors, sponsored by CASIS and funded by the Defense Innovation Unit.
The 100-terabyte LiSS server is a risk-reduction prototype for Spacebilt’s planned 1.2-petabyte server being developed under a multi-orbit logistics vehicle Other Transaction Authority agreement with commercial customers and the Defense Innovation Unit.
The Defense Innovation Unit received $945,000,000 in the defense spending bill passed 2024-03-21, four times its prior-year appropriation.
The Pentagon’s Test Resource Management Center co-funded the sensor upgrade project with the Defense Innovation Unit.
DIU expanded its agreement in January 2024 to include Katalyst Space in the Modularity for Space Systems program.