Sierra Space

Sierra Space plans to return its first Dream Chaser to its manufacturing facility for modifications aimed at securing national security flight services.

JAXA, Sierra Space and The Exploration Co. hope their craft will join the fleet of station cargo ships.

NASA says it is “no longer obligated” to order International Space Station resupply missions from Sierra Space using the company’s Dream Chaser spaceplane.

Voyager Technologies has contracted Vivace Corp. to manufacture the primary structure of the Starlab commercial space station.

The Space Development Agency and its suppliers are racing to scale production and prove the resilience of their optical communications tech.

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has issued two study contracts this month related to its Rocket Cargo vision to speedily transport equipment around the globe using commercial launch vehicles.

NASA is altering plans to issue contracts for the development of commercial low-Earth-orbit successors to the International Space Station.

The service seeks to fortify the GPS architecture against such threats as jamming, spoofing and other adversarial actions.

Sierra Space has been selected by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to provide spacecraft docking mechanisms for future JAXA missions to the ISS.

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.