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Sierra Space continues to develop its inflatable LIFE habitat technology while shifting focus toward orbital defense infrastructure over commercial space station bids like Orbital Reef.
Orbital Reef is not seen as a potential leader to replace the International Space Station.
Blue Origin and Sierra Space jointly developed the Orbital Reef commercial space station.
Orbital Reef involves nine partner companies.
Blue Origin and Sierra Space secured $172 million in NASA funding for Orbital Reef.
Blue Origin and Sierra Space demonstrated inflatable habitat module technology for Orbital Reef.
Starlab completed preliminary design milestones that Orbital Reef was still pursuing.
Blue Origin and Sierra Space completed the Orbital Reef System Definition Review with NASA in June 2025.
Blue Origin and Sierra Space set a 2027 operational target for Orbital Reef.
Orbital Reef is designed to support 10 astronauts and provide docking capability for Blue Origin’s New Glenn launcher and Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spaceplane.
Phase 1 of Commercial LEO Destinations funded three partnerships through Space Act Agreements: Blue Origin/Sierra Space for Orbital Reef, Axiom Space for a modular station approach, and Voyager Space partnered with Airbus for Starlab.
Blue Origin received a $42,000,000 increase to its original $130,000,000 CLD award for development of the Orbital Reef space station.
Reports indicate that Blue Origin may be having trouble with the Orbital Reef partnership and has shifted employees to other projects.
Sierra Space is developing the LIFE inflatable habitat as one of the components of the Orbital Reef commercial space station being developed with Blue Origin and other companies.
The NG-19 mission is directly supporting Orbital Reef by carrying samples of window material to the International Space Station on an external experiment platform called the Materials ISS Experiment (MISSE) Flight Facility.
Sierra Space has ongoing work with Blue Origin on the Orbital Reef commercial space station, which received NASA funding in late 2021 for initial development.
Orbital Reef is a mixed-use space station to be built in low Earth orbit (LEO).
Winners of the Reef Starter Innovation Challenge will receive awards of up to $100,000 and customized workshops with the Orbital Reef team to advance their award-winning products.
Orbital Reef will provide an ecosystem for commerce, research, and tourism by the end of the decade.
The Orbital Reef team is gathering innovative ideas to improve life in space.