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NanoRacks

US
commercialFounded 2009
Webster, Texas, United States
nanoracks.com/
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Nanoracks is planning for a transition to commercial space stations as the International Space Station begins to retire at the end of this decade.

Mentioned as: NanoracksTechnical ProductAug 5, 2021China’s space station emerges as competitor to commercial ventures

Nanoracks developed and installed the Bishop commercial airlock module on the International Space Station in December, enabling the company to launch more satellites and install external payloads.

Mentioned as: NanoracksTechnical ProductAug 5, 2021China’s space station emerges as competitor to commercial ventures

Marshall Smith will oversee Nanoracks’ plans to develop free-flyer commercial space stations.

Mentioned as: NanoracksTechnical ProductAug 2, 2021Former NASA official joins Nanoracks to lead commercial space station work

Nanoracks developed the Bishop commercial airlock that was installed on the International Space Station in December 2020.

Mentioned as: NanoRacksOrg RelationshipAug 2, 2021Former NASA official joins Nanoracks to lead commercial space station work

Nanoracks works with NASA to fly payloads to the International Space Station and to use the station as a platform for cubesat launches.

Mentioned as: NanoRacksOrg RelationshipAug 2, 2021Former NASA official joins Nanoracks to lead commercial space station work

The GITAI and Nanoracks team passed a series of four NASA safety reviews required for the demonstration.

Mentioned as: NanoRacksNarrative GeneralJun 25, 2021GITAI Passes All NASA Safety Reviews for ISS Onboard Demonstration, Ready for Launch

On May 20, 2021, GITAI and Nanoracks succeeded in passing the final safety review (Phase 3) and received official authorization by NASA to launch to the ISS.

Mentioned as: NanoRacksOrg RelationshipJun 25, 2021GITAI Passes All NASA Safety Reviews for ISS Onboard Demonstration, Ready for Launch

The GITAI robot will conduct a technical demonstration of executing various tasks inside the Nanoracks Bishop Airlock.

Mentioned as: NanoRacksNarrative GeneralJun 25, 2021GITAI Passes All NASA Safety Reviews for ISS Onboard Demonstration, Ready for Launch

GITAI, in collaboration with Nanoracks, will conduct a technical demonstration of a GITAI robot in 2021.

Mentioned as: NanoRacksNarrative GeneralJun 25, 2021GITAI Passes All NASA Safety Reviews for ISS Onboard Demonstration, Ready for Launch

All operations conducted by the S1 GITAI robotic arm will be autonomous, with some teleoperations from Nanoracks’ mission control center in Houston.

Mentioned as: NanoracksTechnical ProductJun 25, 2021GITAI Passes All NASA Safety Reviews for ISS Onboard Demonstration, Ready for Launch

Nanoracks is providing the launch opportunity, on-orbit operations, and data downlink for the mission.

Mentioned as: NanoRacksNarrative GeneralJun 25, 2021GITAI Passes All NASA Safety Reviews for ISS Onboard Demonstration, Ready for Launch

SpaceChain delivered the completed blockchain hardware to Nanoracks upon completion of the work for Nexus.

Mentioned as: NanoracksOrg RelationshipJun 6, 2021A Nexus, World’s First — Ethereum Blockchain Network Now Aloft @ ISS

Each project sent aboard the International Space Station requires extensive safety and security checks and about 1,000 pages of documentation as required by NASA, with Nanoracks acting as gatekeeper and caretaker.

Mentioned as: NanoracksTechnical ProductJun 6, 2021A Nexus, World’s First — Ethereum Blockchain Network Now Aloft @ ISS

Nexus’s blockchain wallet payload is installed as a hosted payload on Nanoracks’s commercial platform aboard the International Space Station and includes all data up- and downlinked onboard the ISS.

Mentioned as: NanoracksTechnical ProductJun 6, 2021A Nexus, World’s First — Ethereum Blockchain Network Now Aloft @ ISS

Nanoracks is a Houston-based satellite operator and space solutions company that hosted Nexus’s blockchain wallet payload on its commercial platform aboard the International Space Station.

Mentioned as: NanoracksTechnical ProductJun 4, 2021Nexus Inc. launches ethereum blockchain network in Space

Nanoracks is responsible as gatekeeper and caretaker for projects sent aboard the International Space Station and such projects require about 1,000 pages of documentation as required by NASA.

Mentioned as: nanoracksNarrative GeneralJun 4, 2021Nexus Inc. launches ethereum blockchain network in Space

SpaceChain Foundation developed Nexus’s ethereum multisignature blockchain node payload and delivered the hardware to Nanoracks upon completion.

Mentioned as: NanoRacksNarrative GeneralJun 4, 2021Nexus Inc. launches ethereum blockchain network in Space

Voyager Space Holdings closed a deal on 2021-05-10 to acquire a majority stake in XO Markets, the parent company of Nanoracks.

Mentioned as: nanoracksNarrative GeneralMay 10, 2021With a focus on the low-Earth orbit economy, Voyager eyes more acquisitions

Voyager bought a majority stake in Nanoracks in December 2020.

Mentioned as: NanoRacksNarrative GeneralApr 7, 2021Former NASA administrator advising acquisition-hungry Voyager Space Holdings

MySat-2 (DhabiSat) is the second CubeSat built by Khalifa University to be launched by Nanoracks.

Mentioned as: NanoRacksNarrative GeneralFeb 23, 2021Nanoracks launches two CubeSats on NG-15 Cygnus
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