Jerry Petersen
NASA has awarded 15 companies spots on a five-year, $45 million firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract in support of the Flight Opportunities and Small Spacecraft Technology programs.
Winning contractors will be tasked to provide flight services and carry out the integration of payloads like science instruments and technology demonstrations onto a variety of platforms, including suborbital rockets, balloons and satellites, NASA said Monday.
Work under the contract will be carried out to support the testing of procedures and technologies for space operations.
The awardees are:
- Aerostar International
- Angstrom Designs
- Astrobotic Technology
- Astro Digital US
- Blue Origin Texas
- Galactic Enterprises
- Loft Orbital Federal
- Momentus Space
- Near Space Corp.
- Rocket Lab USA
- Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
- Spire Global
- Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems
- Varda Space Industries
- World View Enterprises
The services to be provided under this deal will benefit not only NASA but other government agencies as well.
