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Sierra Nevada Corporation expects commercial successors to the International Space Station to be in place to handle current ISS research activities by around 2028 to 2030.
Sierra Nevada Corporation plans to use cargo and crew versions of Dream Chaser to support a commercial space station by the end of the decade.
The Denver-area talent pool includes engineers working at Deep Space Systems, Lockheed Martin, and Sierra Nevada Corporation, which are all part of the CLPS program.
Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Shooting Star cargo module was developed to provide additional cargo capacity for Dream Chaser missions to the International Space Station and to dispose of cargo after departing the station while the Dream Chaser glides back to Earth.
Procurement records on beta.SAM.gov show DIU awarded Sierra Nevada Corporation $439,100 for "Phase 1: Orbital Outpost Prototype Project" in February.
Sierra Nevada Corporation is using its manufacturing capabilities to provide relief to healthcare workers and first responders during the COVID-19 crisis.
Sierra Nevada Corporation is building its first Dream Chaser spacecraft, which the company plans to launch in the fall of 2021.
A second Commercial Resupply Services contract was awarded in 2016 to SpaceX, Orbital ATK (now Northrop Grumman), and Sierra Nevada Corporation.
SpaceX won one of three CRS-2 contracts in January 2016 alongside Orbital ATK (now Northrop Grumman) and Sierra Nevada Corporation to continue cargo deliveries to the International Space Station.
SNC retains an unfunded extension of a 2012 commercial crew award to support planning for a crewed version of Dream Chaser.
Sierra Nevada Corporation can leverage technologies developed for its Dream Chaser vehicle to take larger lunar payloads and could begin lunar lander missions in 2022.
SNC’s Dream Chaser primary structure, made entirely of carbon composite materials, was produced at a Lockheed Martin facility in Fort Worth, Texas that makes components for the F-35.
SNC planned to spend 18 months assembling Dream Chaser after arrival of the primary structure, targeting vehicle completion in April 2021.
SNC planned to fly Dream Chaser to Florida for final preparations for a first mission slated to launch no earlier than September 2021 on one of the first flights of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket.
NASA awarded CRS-2 contracts in January 2016 to Orbital ATK, Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC), and SpaceX.
SNC expects to fly all six CRS-2 missions with the same Dream Chaser vehicle, and Dream Chaser is designed to fly at least 15 missions.
Lockheed Martin built the primary structure of the first orbital Dream Chaser vehicle and shipped it from a Lockheed facility in Fort Worth, Texas to Sierra Nevada Corporation.
Extension of the International Space Station beyond 2024 could create opportunities to add new commercial crew providers similar to how Sierra Nevada Corporation was added to ISS cargo delivery contracts.
Sierra Nevada Corporation retains plans to eventually develop a crewed version of the Dream Chaser spacecraft.
Sierra Nevada Corporation intends to build additional Dream Chaser vehicles and is working with Lockheed Martin on a second structure.