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The design and development phase for Orbital Reef is currently underway.
Orbital Reef will provide an ecosystem for commerce, research, and tourism by the end of the decade.
Sierra Space is partnering with Blue Origin and other companies to develop the Orbital Reef commercial space station.
The Reef Starter Innovation Challenge will select several early-stage companies to receive awards of up to $100,000 and customized workshops with the Orbital Reef team.
Shahir Gerges, Director of Business Strategy for Orbital Reef, supports creating a vibrant community of innovators on Orbital Reef to commercialize low Earth orbit.
The Reef Starter Innovation Challenge will select several early-stage companies to receive awards of up to $100,000 and customized workshops with the Orbital Reef team.
Orbital Reef is designed to provide infrastructure to scale economic activity and open new markets in space, including tourism, entertainment, research, and manufacturing.
Blue Origin’s efforts include flying astronauts on New Shepard, producing reusable liquid rocket engines, developing the New Glenn orbital launch vehicle, building next-generation Orbital Reef space habitats, and returning to the surface of the Moon.
Orbital Reef received $130,000,000 in funded Space Act Agreement support from NASA as part of the CLD program.
Sierra Space’s current plans for Orbital Reef call for launching the first modules in 2027.
The SDR establishes the functional baseline for Orbital Reef, a commercially developed, owned, and operated space station to be built in low Earth orbit (LEO).
Sierra Space describes Orbital Reef’s planned capabilities to include microgravity factories and services intended to support economic growth.
Orbital Reef is a mixed-use business park in low Earth orbit being developed by principal partners Sierra Space and Blue Origin and is expected to be operational by 2027.
Sierra Space aims to start flying astronauts by 2026 to support the start of Orbital Reef construction.
Orbital Reef is a mixed-use business park in low Earth orbit being developed by Sierra Space and Blue Origin that is expected to be operational by 2027.
Boeing is participating in the Orbital Reef commercial space station project being developed with Blue Origin and Sierra Space and is offering Starliner for crew transportation to that station.
Orbital Reef is a commercial space station project with lead partners Blue Origin and Sierra Space that won NASA funding in December 2021 for initial design studies.
NASA awarded a $130,000,000 Space Act Agreement to the companies developing Orbital Reef as part of the Commercial Low Earth Orbit Destinations (CLD) program.
Blue Origin and Sierra Space completed a system requirements review for Orbital Reef on 2022-04-05.
Blue Origin will develop Orbital Reef’s core modules and provide launch services on its New Glenn rocket.