Redwire Space

Redwire expects QinetiQ Space NV to provide enhanced scale, increased innovation capabilities across high-growth space areas, an expanded total addressable market, and greater exposure to European customers.

Redwire has acquired space manufacturing company Made In Space and Deployable Space Systems, which develops spacecraft structures and solar arrays.

Redwire Corporation signed a memorandum of understanding with Bradford Space and the Swedish Space Corporation to develop a commercial orbital debris removal service.

Redwire and its heritage companies did not previously build high-end star trackers at the level of Hydra, which led to 18 months of discussions with Sodern on a manufacturing partnership.

Redwire and Sodern signed a teaming agreement on 2022-09-12 to allow Redwire to manufacture in the United States a star tracker based on Sodern’s Hydra.

Redwire and Sodern signed the teaming agreement during World Satellite Business Week in Paris.

Redwire Corporation will develop the only commercially owned and operated spaceflight-qualified plant growth platform capable of growing plants from seed to maturity in space.

Redwire Greenhouse is scheduled to launch to space no earlier than spring 2023.

Redwire Greenhouse will leverage already flight-qualified Redwire plant growth technology, including Passive Orbital Nutrient Delivery System (PONDS) devices developed in partnership with Tupperware Brands and currently operated by Redwire on the ISS.

Dewey Scientific collaborated with Redwire and contributed technical details about the 60-day experiment intended to demonstrate the facility’s capabilities while advancing biomedical and biofuels research.

Redwire has managed plant investigations in the NASA-owned Advanced Plant Habitat since 2018.

Redwire sold its first space-optimized product, a space-grown optical crystal manufactured on the company’s Industrial Crystallization Facility that launched to the ISS in 2021.

Redwire delivered antennas earlier 2022 for the initial phase of the same satellite constellation.

This production lot of antennas will be manufactured in Redwire’s recently expanded Longmont, Colorado facility.

The January 2022 Redwire contract for three L-band Link-16 helical antennas was with one of two satellite manufacturers, York Space Systems or Lockheed Martin, that received contracts in August 2020 to build 10 Transport Layer satellites.

Redwire will manufacture the antennas at its Longmont, Colorado, facility.

Redwire and MDA won contracts on 2022-06-07 to each produce 42 tactical communications antennas for U.S. military satellites in low Earth orbit.

Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW) has been contracted to deliver 42 high-gain antennas for an undisclosed national security customer for a low Earth orbit satellite constellation with significant follow-on potential.

Redwire was under contract in January 2022 to deliver three L-band Link-16 helical antennas for the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer Tranche 0.

Redwire is under contract to deliver 42 high-gain Link 16 antennas over the next 18 months for an undisclosed customer.