Nanoracks, LLC

Nanoracks, LLC, doing business as Voyager Space Solutions, is a commercial space services company based in Webster, Texas that serves as a prime contractor (96% of awards) delivering payload development, integration, transportation, and in-space deployment solutions for the International Space Station platform to NASA and Department of Defense research programs. The vendor competes full-and-open on all documented awards; no set-aside categories appear in the prime footprint, though one small-business set-aside delivery order under Kennedy Space Center and two Air Force STTR Phase I contracts carry small-business designations.

Nanoracks' customer concentration is sharply skewed toward NASA. NASA Johnson Space Center dominates the relationship with 89 awards valued at $180.1 million combined potential value—94% of the vendor's award count. Kennedy Space Center holds the second position with 6 awards worth $19 million. In the dollars-only ranking, the Office of the Secretary of Defense anchors a single $28.5 million award, but this represents one outlier; NASA Johnson Space Center's share of the combined potential value is 74%. The vendor also holds small-dollar relationships with NASA Headquarters ($11.2 million, one award), NASA Shared Services Center, NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, the Air Force Research Laboratory, and GSA Federal Acquisition Service. Across eleven distinct customer agencies, Johnson Space Center accounts for nearly all activity volume and most dollars.

Nanoracks operates primarily through two indefinite-delivery vehicles with NASA Johnson Space Center. The largest is an IDC (NNJ13GA08C) carrying 67 task orders worth $41.6 million combined potential value—this vehicle anchors the vendor's microgravity research, CubeSat deployment, and educational payload work. A second IDC (80JSC021D0011) with 7 task orders carries $27.7 million. The vendor also holds a third IDC (80JSC026D0001) with 5 task orders valued at $2.2 million. At Kennedy Space Center, Nanoracks places work under the CubeSat Dispenser Hardware and Mission Integration Services 3 vehicle (3 task orders, $982 thousand). A January 22, 2026 award expanded the Johnson Space Center relationship: a $24.5 million single-award IDC titled "Voyager Mission Services" running through September 30, 2030, which supplies project-specific integration and operations support on an as-needed basis for ISS research and utilization. Recent delivery orders under this new vehicle include the Palomino Pathfinder 3 payload ($1.23 million, February 2026), the Bichromatic Littoral Temperature Observer project ($480,000, March 2026), and the Compact Ocean Altimeter and Scatterometer Technology demonstration on the Nanoracks External Laboratory platform ($496,200, March 2026).

The vendor's primary work centers on ISS-based research and education. Representative recent primes include a $4.8 million delivery order for High School Students United with NASA to Create Hardware (HUNCH) program project delivery (October 2024), a $5.4 million HUNCH task order for payload integration and in-space deployment (October 2024), a $310,970 delivery order under the DISCMAN technology demonstration program (July 2026, firm fixed price, completion January 31, 2028), a $1.23 million Palomino Pathfinder 3 payload delivery order (February 2026), and multiple SBIR Phase III contracts for microgravity experiments including tardigrade dormancy and reproduction research ($208,094, September 2024), human interaction with electronic displays in microgravity ($94,050, September 2024), and semimetal-semiconductor composite crystal production ($710,056, September 2022). The vendor also holds a cooperative agreement from NASA for the Mars Transit Habitat and Red Knight Airlock study ($100,154, February 2024). Recent Air Force work includes a $245,219 STTR Phase I for in-space welding feasibility (September 2022) and a $241,102 STTR Phase I for modular spacecraft with variable packaging for on-orbit servicing (August 2022).

Activity has remained relatively flat in recent years—13 awards in 2022, 8 in 2023, 12 in 2024, declining to 6 in 2025 and 6 in 2026 through early July. Eight awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $36.3 million, representing recompete exposure. The vendor subcontracts at low volume: Leidos brings Nanoracks into cargo mission work (two sub-awards in March and May 2025), and The Aerospace Corporation engaged Nanoracks for 3U CubeSat launch engineering services (August 2022). Nanoracks also appears as a sub-recipient on Cornell University grant work focused on space-hardened datacenter architecture and neuromorphic processing for autonomous AI/ML applications in space (December 2024, two sub-grants). The combined potential value across all 112 awards is $242.7 million, with $117.2 million obligated (48% of potential value).