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NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center awarded Sierra Space Corp a $27.3 million firm fixed-price definitive contract on August 29, 2017, under the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnership-2 (NEXTSTEP-2) Broad Agency Announcement. The prime contractor is tasked with developing deep space habitation systems to support lunar and cislunar exploration missions, including refining mission architectures, evaluating system interfaces, and designing subsystem components aligned with NASA's three...

NASA awarded a $124,995.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. (ACT), a manufacturer of thermal management solutions located in Neffsville, Pennsylvania. ACT is developing a novel vapor-pressure-driven variable view factor radiator as a thermal control system component for spacecraft. This technology is intended to maintain a constant environment temperature for crewed vehicles across a wide range of external thermal environments,...

This federal contract award is for the Atmosphere Observing System Polar (AOS-P) Spacecraft Accommodation Study, a $1.8 million firm-fixed price delivery order issued under the Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition IV (RAPID IV) Indefinite Delivery Contract. The prime contractor is Thales Alenia Space Italia S.P.A., a global technology provider for aerospace, space, defense, security, and transportation markets. The contract, which has no set-aside, was awarded on May 5, 2023 by the Goddard Space...

This is a firm fixed-price contract awarded by NASA to Hamilton Sundstrand Space Systems International, Inc., a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies Corporation. The contract is for a one-year base effort with potential follow-on phases, with a ceiling value of $14,275,780.00. The contract supports NASA's Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NEXTSTEP) program and seeks concepts and technology investigations for an initial habitation capability in cislunar space, with potential...

This federal contract award is for the LANDSAT 9 SPACECRAFT ACCOMMODATION STUDY, which includes design, build and test, payload integration and test, launch vehicle integration and support, and on-orbit checkout and acceptance. The contract, valued at $500,000.00, was awarded to Thales Alenia Space Italia S.P.A. by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center. It is a delivery order under the RAPID III Spacecraft Acquisition (RAPID III) Indefinite Delivery...

This is a $200,000.00 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Illinois to develop the Cooling, Pointing and Annealing Satellite (CAPSAT), a 3U CubeSat technology demonstrator. The project will demonstrate an active liquid cooling system, jitter control using piezoelectric actuators, and a single photon annealing technique to extend the lifetime of sensors for quantum entanglement experiments in space. This is a...

NASA's Johnson Space Center awarded a $159,129 firm fixed-price delivery order to Alpha Space Test and Research Alliance, LLC on December 3, 2025, to provide mission integration and operation services for the manifest and launch of a payload to the International Space Station. The work supports an investigation entitled "On-Orbit Characterization and Evaluation of ASTRID: An E-Ink Based Thermal Control," with a completion deadline of December 31, 2027. Alpha Space, a woman-owned and...

Alpha Space Test And Research Alliance, LLC has been awarded a $492,647 firm fixed price delivery order for MISSE-2 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Johnson Space Center. MISSE-2 will provide testing and data collection for passive and active material samples and other experiments, science, and research and development in the extreme environment of low Earth orbit, and their return to Earth for post-mission processing. The delivery order has a completion date of July...

Spaceworks Enterprises Inc., a for-profit subchapter S corporation, was awarded a $249,293 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop an advanced habitat system for transporting crews between Earth and Mars. The contract, which is not set aside, will allow Spaceworks to expand its medical team, examine key habitat engineering aspects, initiate prolonged hypothermia animal testing, and consider the technology's impact on alternate exploration missions....

This contract award to Utah State University (USU) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center is for the development of a thermal management system known as the Active Thermal Architecture for Cryogenic Optical Instruments (ATACOI). The ATACOI system is intended to enable new CubeSat-based Earth science and heliophysics missions by advancing technologies for deployable solar tracking radiators, rotational fluid unions, and vibration/thermal isolation of...