Nanoracks, LLC

Nanoracks, LLC (doing business as Voyager Space Solutions), a for-profit limited liability company based in Webster, Texas, delivers payload development, integration, transportation, and in-space deployment services for International Space Station research and microgravity experiments as a prime contractor (96% of recent awards) competing predominantly full-and-open without set-aside designations. The company operates as a commercial space services provider anchored to NASA's Johnson Space Center, with diversified but smaller engagement from the Air Force Research Laboratory, Kennedy Space Center, and other federal agencies.

NASA Johnson Space Center dominates Nanoracks' customer footprint with overwhelming concentration: 94 awards valued at $180.8 million combined potential value across 117 total prime and sub awards represent 94% of award count and 73% of combined portfolio value. Kennedy Space Center accounts for 6 awards and $19 million; remaining customers (Air Force Research Laboratory, Shared Services Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center, NASA Headquarters, Office of the Secretary of Defense, and GSA) collectively represent the remaining slice. The top-customers-by-potential-value ranking surfaces an outlier: a single Office of the Secretary of Defense award worth $31.3 million, which anchors 12% of portfolio dollars despite appearing as one order. This OSD award is substantially larger than Nanoracks' typical Johnson Space Center work, signaling strategic diversification but not yet operational concentration outside NASA.

Nanoracks holds three parent indefinite-delivery vehicles, all with Johnson Space Center. The primary vehicle—Indefinite Delivery Contract NNJ13GA08C—carries 67 task orders valued at $41 million combined potential value and represents the company's legacy ISS support contract. A second vehicle, Indefinite Delivery Contract 80JSC026D0001, accounts for 10 task orders and $3.4 million. The Voyager Mission Services IDC (80JSC021D0011), a $24.5 million single-award vehicle awarded January 22, 2026, with a September 30, 2030 completion date, supplies project-specific integration and operations support on an as-needed basis and has generated 7 task orders valued at $27.7 million. Kennedy Space Center's CubeSat Dispenser Hardware and Mission Integration Services 3 vehicle accounts for 3 orders and $982 thousand. Work under these vehicles reflects Nanoracks' core competency: payload development and integration for ISS deployment (Palomino Pathfinder 3 at $1.29 million, Bichromatic Littoral Temperature Observer at $480 thousand, Compact Ocean Altimeter and Scatterometer Technology at $496 thousand), CubeSat launch services (CubeSat Launch Initiative missions, deployments totaling hundreds of thousands), and microgravity research support (tardigrade biology, turbulence decay, biofilm-resistant coatings, sound-speed measurement in asteroid regolith, in-space welding feasibility). Recent awards from September 2026 include a $341.5 thousand payload development delivery order, a $161.5 thousand NYANSAT CubeSat integration task, a $237.5 thousand CubeSat Launch Initiative order, and three others in the $170–$310 thousand range, all completing December 30, 2027.

Activity has remained modest and cyclical: 13 awards in 2022, declining to 6 in 2025, then 11 in 2026 year-to-date. Combined obligated value sits at $121.6 million (49% of combined potential value), indicating significant remaining performance ahead. Eleven awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry $39.4 million combined potential value and face recompete exposure. Nanoracks' capability portfolio is dominated by NAICS 541712 (Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences except Biotechnology) and NAICS 541713 (the same category excluding nanotechnology), accounting for 101 of 117 awards, with PSC codes clustered around Space R&D Services (56 awards for space flight research and experimental development, 22 for applied research, 9 for basic research). The company holds a modest subcontractor footprint: Nanoracks subcontracts to Leidos on Cargo Mission Contract 4 (CMC4) procured goods and services (two awards, March–May 2025) and to The Aerospace Corporation on 3U CubeSat launch services engineering (August 2022). Nanoracks also appears as a sub-recipient under Cornell University on a grant for space-hardened, scalable datacenter architecture integrating general-purpose and neuromorphic processing for autonomous AI/ML applications in space (two sub-awards, December 2024). A single cooperative agreement from NASA Shared Services Center for Mars Transit Habitat development ($100.2 thousand, awarded February 7, 2024, completed February 28, 2025) represents the company's only grant-funded prime award in the source data. Nanoracks' federal posture is non-disadvantaged-business, full-and-open competitive, driven by specialized ISS integration and deployment capabilities rather than set-aside positioning or subcontracting volume.