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Sierra Space

US
commercialFounded 2021
Louisville, Colorado, United States
sierraspace.com
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The Space Development Agency selected L3Harris, Lockheed Martin, and Sierra Space on 2024-01-16 to build and operate 54 satellites equipped with infrared sensors capable of tracking hypersonic missiles in all phases of flight.

Mentioned as: Sierra SpaceOrg RelationshipJan 16, 2024Space Development Agency awards contracts worth $2.5 billion for missile-tracking satellites

The contract awarded to Sierra Space for 18 Tranche 2 satellites is worth $740,000,000.

Mentioned as: sierra spaceTechnical ProductJan 16, 2024Space Development Agency awards contracts worth $2.5 billion for missile-tracking satellites

Geost was selected by Sierra Space to provide 18 infrared payloads for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 2 satellites, consisting of 16 Mercury missile warning and missile tracking payloads and two Phoenix fire control payloads.

Mentioned as: Sierra SpaceOrg RelationshipJan 16, 2024Space Development Agency awards contracts worth $2.5 billion for missile-tracking satellites

Sierra Space will build the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 2 satellites at the company’s facilities in Colorado.

Mentioned as: sierra spaceTechnical ProductJan 16, 2024Space Development Agency awards contracts worth $2.5 billion for missile-tracking satellites

Sierra Space offers a complete turn-key solution providing Space-as-a-Service.

Mentioned as: Sierra SpaceNarrative GeneralDec 18, 2023Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser® enters final test campaign + transitioning to orbital operations

Sierra Space has delivered the first Dream Chaser spaceplane, Tenacity, to NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio.

Mentioned as: Sierra SpaceOrg RelationshipDec 18, 2023Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser® enters final test campaign + transitioning to orbital operations

Sierra Space is developing the first business-ready commercial space station leveraging advanced expandable structural architecture.

Mentioned as: Sierra SpaceTechnical ProductDec 18, 2023Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser® enters final test campaign + transitioning to orbital operations

Sierra Space's cargo module, Shooting Star™, arrived at the NASA test facility in November.

Mentioned as: Sierra SpaceTechnical ProductDec 18, 2023Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser® enters final test campaign + transitioning to orbital operations

Sierra Space is committed to ensuring the utmost reliability of its technologies.

Mentioned as: Sierra SpaceNarrative GeneralDec 18, 2023Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser® enters final test campaign + transitioning to orbital operations

The 14 companies selected for LunA-10 are Blue Origin, CisLunar Industries, Crescent Space Services LLC, Fibertek, Inc., Firefly Aerospace, GITAI, Helios, Honeybee Robotics, ICON, Nokia of America, Northrop Grumman, Redwire Corporation, Sierra Space, and SpaceX.

Mentioned as: Sierra SpaceOrg RelationshipDec 11, 202314 Companies Selected to Build the Future of the Moon

NASA used a high-powered laser to replicate the heat generated by a solar energy concentrator to melt lunar soil simulant within a carbothermal reactor developed by Sierra Space.

Mentioned as: Sierra SpaceTechnical ProductDec 7, 2023Sierra Space secures DARPA contract for lunar oxygen extraction framework

The LunA-10 capability study will be a research and development initiative led by Sierra Space under the DARPA contract.

Mentioned as: Sierra SpaceOrg RelationshipDec 6, 2023Sierra Space Awarded DARPA Contract for Lunar Architecture Capability Study

The 14 companies selected for LunA-10 are Blue Origin, CisLunar Industries, Crescent Space Services LLC, Fibertek, Inc., Firefly Aerospace, GITAI, Helios, Honeybee Robotics, ICON, Nokia of America, Northrop Grumman, Redwire Corporation, Sierra Space, and SpaceX.

Mentioned as: Sierra SpaceTechnical ProductDec 6, 2023DARPA picks 14 companies for lunar architecture study

NASA’s April test used a high-powered laser to replicate the heat generated by a solar energy concentrator and melted lunar soil simulant within a carbothermal reactor developed in-house by Sierra Space.

Mentioned as: Sierra SpaceTechnical ProductDec 6, 2023Sierra Space Awarded DARPA Contract for Lunar Architecture Capability Study

Sierra Space is bringing on 150 people from Sierra Nevada Corporation with security clearances to work on classified projects as it builds up a national security business unit.

Mentioned as: Sierra SpaceOrg RelationshipNov 20, 2023Sierra Space lays off 165 in workforce realignment

Sierra Space raised $290,000,000 in a Series B round in September that valued the company at $5,300,000,000.

Mentioned as: Sierra SpaceTechnical ProductNov 20, 2023Sierra Space lays off 165 in workforce realignment

Sierra Space was spun off from Sierra Nevada Corporation in 2021.

Mentioned as: Sierra SpaceNarrative GeneralNov 20, 2023Sierra Space lays off 165 in workforce realignment

Sierra Space completed the first Dream Chaser vehicle, Tenacity, on 2023-11-02 and is ready to ship it to NASA’s Armstrong Test Facility in Ohio for environmental tests.

Mentioned as: Sierra SpaceOrg RelationshipNov 20, 2023Sierra Space lays off 165 in workforce realignment

Sierra Space established a National Security Advisory Group in 2022.

Mentioned as: Sierra SpaceNarrative GeneralNov 20, 2023Sierra Space lays off 165 in workforce realignment

Sierra Space laid off 165 employees who had been working to assemble the first Dream Chaser vehicle, Tenacity, on 2023-11-17.

Mentioned as: Sierra SpaceOrg RelationshipNov 20, 2023Sierra Space lays off 165 in workforce realignment
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