Sierra Space

Sierra Space has a new, $45 million facility up and running to build defense-hardened solar arrays at scale.

The European Space Agency (ESA) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) June 18 to work with a third aspiring U.S. space station operator.

Sierra Space is ready to pull back the curtain on its defense-centric unit and a new 60,000-ft.2 facility dedicated to its national security programs.

Sierra Space, competing for the Space Force’s first batch of R-GPS satellites, has demonstrated integration of an early iteration of the hardware and software.

The U.S. plans to operate the International Space Station (ISS) for another five years, but risks to the orbital outpost are a growing concern.

Companies say they are ready to support the White House’s Golden Dome initiative. They just need the green light.

Sierra Space plans to fly a Honda-developed experimental fuel cell system to the International Space Station for testing in microgravity.

Sierra Space says Merck is its first commercial rideshare partner for the inaugural flight of the Dream Chaser spaceplane on a NASA mission later this year.

“It is time to begin preparations for deorbiting the @Space_Station,” Musk wrote on his social media site X on Feb. 20.

New spins on NASA-developed heat shield technologies paved the way for an era of reusable space vehicles.

The award follows the completion of tests of the fully integrated VR35K-A propulsion system.

President Trump’s first administration launched the Artemis program to send humans back to the Moon. His second term may pivot the focus to Mars.

Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spaceplane has completed a series of payload integration tests at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida which keep it on track for a planned mission to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) later this year.

The awards are part of the Artemis program’s objectives of establishing a sustainable human presence at the Moon to prepare for human expeditions to Mars.

Sierra Space says it can predict—with higher accuracy than conventional methods—the locations of space debris, using “physics-informed neural networks.”

The TPS comprises a composite material that combines the strength of carbon fiber with the high-temperature stability of ceramics.

The Louisville, Colorado-based company is a prime contractor for the agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.

The Sierra Space trash compaction and processing system uses a catalytic oxidation technique to process volatile organic compounds and other gaseous byproducts.

With a second successful flight, United Launch Alliance’s new rocket is ready to take on military and commercial missions.

McIntosh will replace Bridget Lauderdale, who is retiring as vice president and general manager of the F-35 after 38 years at Lockheed.

Sierra Space will study a scaled-up version of its Ghost logistics supply spacecraft concept.

The company is jointly opening two new facilities in Colorado called “Victory Works.”

The Space Development Agency is about to put the first operational satellites in its Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture on orbit.

The Pentagon is exploring using commercial launch vehicles for point-to-point delivery by the 2030s.

The newly expanded consortium will also explore opportunities for the Dream Chaser in Japan and across the Asian continent.