NASA Selects Seven Suborbital Launch Providers

NASA Selects Seven Suborbital Launch Providers

NASA announced today the seven winners of contracts to fly NASA payloads on suborbital missions.

The two-year indefinite delivery-indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contracts are worth a combined total of $10 million according to the press release. The payloads would be for technology development. NASA’s Chief Technologist, Bobby Braun, said they would open up opportunities for engineers, scientists and technologists to mature technologies for application to future NASA missions. The seven winners are:

  • Armadillo Aerospace
  • Near Space Corp
  • Masten Space Systems
  • Up Aerospace, Inc
  • Virgin Galactic
  • Whittinghill Aerospace, LLC
  • XCOR

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