Galactic Enterprises, LLC
Galactic Enterprises, LLC is a commercial spaceline company that provides flight and payload integration services to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Registered to receive federal awards since June 21, 2011, the company is structured as a for-profit limited liability corporation. Galactic Enterprises specializes in offering suborbital and hosted orbital flight services, as well as payload integration support for NASA's research and technology development initiatives.
The company has been awarded several prime federal contracts by NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center. These contracts involve a range of specialized services, including the evaluation of computed axial lithography for rapid, volumetric additive manufacturing under low-gravity conditions, SUBORBITAL CREW data review and analysis, and general flight and payload integration support. Galactic Enterprises has performed work in various locations, including Las Cruces, New Mexico, California, and Nevada. The contracts awarded to the company have been firm-fixed-price delivery orders, with values ranging from $25,000 to $262,922.20. Notably, none of these contracts have been set aside for specific business types.
Galactic Enterprises holds two significant Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracts with NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center. The first, awarded in December 2020 with ID 80AFRC21D0003, has a ceiling value of $45 million and runs through January 2024. This multiple-award IDIQ covers flight and payload integration services supporting NASA's spacecraft operations, flight testing, and advanced concepts research. The second IDIQ, awarded in March 2024 with ID 80AFRC24DA012, also has a ceiling value of $45 million and extends through February 2029. This contract is part of the Suborbital/Hosted Orbital Flight and Payload Integration Services 4 program and focuses on acquiring space on commercial flights for technology payloads and associated integration services. Both IDVs support NASA's Flight Opportunities program, allowing the agency to utilize commercial platforms for various research and technology demonstration purposes, including reduced gravity experiments, high-altitude testing, and suborbital flights.
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Not listed 166 Roadrunner Pkwy #1C, Las Cruces, NM 88011, USA
6/21/11 12/5/25 World View Enterprises Inc.
World View Enterprises Inc. is a company that specializes in stratospheric exploration using high altitude balloons. They offer remote sensing, C4ISR, and asset monitoring services through their stratospheric balloons. They also provide space tourism, research, and educational services.
Through prime federal contract awards, World View Enterprises Inc. has provided mission implementation and student challenge services, payload integration services, stratospheric balloons for persistent intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, and innovative defense-related dual-purpose technologies and solutions to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Armstrong Flight Research Center, Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory, and other agencies. Services were provided on firm-fixed price delivery orders, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contracts, other transaction agreements, and small business innovation research program phase I purchase orders. Some contracts were set aside for small businesses while others had no set-aside designation.
Through a subcontract with Raytheon Company, World View Enterprises Inc. provided unspecified nonproduct services. As a subrecipient on a grant to Arizona State University, World View Enterprises Inc. collaborated on a project involving flying a novel 3D weather imaging sensor on a high-altitude balloon.
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Not listed 1805 Aerospace Pkwy, Tucson, AZ 85756, USA
9/18/14 5/24/25 Up Aerospace Inc.
Up Aerospace Inc. is a corporate entity that provides suborbital rocket vehicles, payload integration services, and related products to the federal government, primarily NASA. According to its website, Sigma Apk 2.0 is a gaming application that offers an unparalleled and thrilling experience to players worldwide.
Through prime contract awards, Up Aerospace Inc. has provided payload integration and suborbital rocket launch services to NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, including delivery orders to integrate and fly payloads for specific SpaceLoft rocket missions. It also has a contract to integrate and fly educational student competition payloads. Additional prime awards were for engineering studies related to thermal protection systems and a contract to build and static test rocket motors for the SPYDER rocket system from NASA Shared Services Center. As a subcontractor, Up Aerospace Inc. has provided professional engineering services and guided missile and space vehicle parts and auxiliary equipment to prime contractor Triad National Security LLC. No set aside designations were indicated for the prime contract awards listed.
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Not listed 469 Mockingbird Ct, Littleton, CO 80129, USA
11/24/08 2/28/25 Masten Space Systems Inc.
Masten Space Systems Inc., doing business as Masten Space, is an aerospace research and development company that provides reusable rocket vehicles, components, and flight services to the federal government. According to its website, Masten specializes in rocket powered vertical takeoff and vertical landing vehicles and precision lunar landers, and has the most successful rocket powered landings in the industry.
Through past federal contract awards, Masten Space Systems has provided flight demonstration, testing, integration, analysis, research, and hardware services to support technology development programs across NASA and the Department of Defense. Specific services include flight tests of reusable suborbital vehicles, cryogenic fluid management research, metal oxidation warming systems for surviving lunar nights, plume effects modeling, payload integration services, and lunar landing technologies. Major customers include NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center, Johnson Space Center, Marshall Space Flight Center, and Shared Services Center. Awards have been made both on a competitive basis and through set aside programs for small businesses.
Masten Space Systems has received federal grants from NASA and the National Science Foundation to conduct research on topics like modeling rocket plume interactions with lunar regolith, developing agent-based systems for space operations, and testing instruments to measure ejecta dynamics during rocket-powered landings. Grants have been awarded through programs such as the Flight Opportunities Program, Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, and Space Technology Research Grants program.
Masten Space Systems holds an indefinite delivery indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract from NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center to provide flight and payload integration services in support of the center's aeronautics research goals. The IDIQ has a potential value of $45 million through July 2023. Task orders issued against the vehicle accommodate payloads up to 4kg in mass and 4U in volume, and involve exposure to environments like reduced gravity, high altitude, and controlled launch/landing scenarios across balloon, rocket, and vertical testbed platforms.
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Not listed Not listed 9/7/06 9/6/23 Blue Origin Texas, LLC
Blue Origin Texas, LLC is a for-profit limited liability company and subsidiary of Blue Origin LLC, an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company. Blue Origin Texas provides suborbital spaceflight services and payload integration to the U.S. federal government, particularly supporting technology demonstration and reduced gravity experiments for NASA and the Department of Defense.
The majority of Blue Origin Texas' federal contract work has been through numerous firm fixed-price delivery orders issued under NASA's Flight and Payload Integration Services indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract vehicle. As the prime contractor, Blue Origin Texas is responsible for integrating various payloads aboard its reusable New Shepard launch system and providing suborbital flights to test technologies such as propulsion systems, in-space manufacturing techniques, lunar gravity simulators, and student experiments. Individual delivery orders have ranged from tens of thousands to millions of dollars in value. Key customers include NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, with no set-aside designations specified across the base IDIQ and task orders. Prior subcontract roles have also involved developing space transportation and lunar landing capabilities for NASA and DoD.
Blue Origin Texas has contributed as a subrecipient on a limited number of federal research grants supporting spaceflight health assessments, biological experiments, and autonomous hardware development for suborbital flights. One project aims to identify requirements for collecting biomedical data on New Shepard astronauts, in collaboration with the Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) and NASA. The prime grantee institutions include Baylor College of Medicine and Montana State University, working with Blue Origin Texas and other partners under NASA grant programs focused on commercial suborbital research and human space exploration. Relatively minimal grant funding flows to the company compared to its federal contract work.
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Not listed 35961 TX-54, Van Horn, TX 79855, USA
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