{"id":17134,"date":"2025-03-26T17:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T09:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/gravitics-wins-support-from-space-force-to-create-an-orbital-carrier-for-space-vehicles\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T17:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T09:42:10","slug":"gravitics-wins-support-from-space-force-to-create-an-orbital-carrier-for-space-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/gravitics-wins-support-from-space-force-to-create-an-orbital-carrier-for-space-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Gravitics wins support from Space Force to create an orbital carrier for space vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An artist\u2019s conception shows Gravitics\u2019 Orbital Carrier with payloads ready for deployment. (Gravitics Illustration)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The U.S. Space Force has chosen Marysville, Wash.-based Gravitics to build and fly an orbital carrier that could deliver maneuverable space vehicles to the final frontier \u2014 and have them ready to respond to future threats.<\/p>\n

The project will be supported by up to $60 million in funding, to be provided through the Space Force\u2019s SpaceWERX STRATFI program. That funding would come from government sources as well as private sources, Gravitics said today in a news release.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re honored to partner with the U.S. Space Force on this critical initiative.\u201d Gravitics CEO Colin Doughan said. \u201cThe Orbital Carrier is a game-changer, acting as a pre-positioned launch pad in space. It bypasses traditional launch constraints, enabling space vehicle operators to rapidly select a deployment orbit on-demand.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an illustration, Gravitics shows the Orbital Carrier as a cylindrical cargo module containing stacked-up spacecraft with folded-up solar panels. The timeline for development of the carrier wasn\u2019t announced, but Gravitics said the newly announced deal will provide it with the \u201cresources and support necessary to develop and demonstrate the Orbital Carrier platform.\u201d<\/p>\n

The project follows up on a $1.7 million contract that the SpaceForce\u2019s SpaceWERX program awarded to Gravitics almost a year ago. That contract called upon Gravitics to adapt the architecture for its commercial space station modules to address the Space Force\u2019s interest in beefing up rapid-response space operations \u2014 an initiative known as Tactically Responsive Space.<\/p>\n

Over the past few weeks, U.S. military officials have sounded the alarm over Russian and Chinese efforts to execute \u201cattack and defend\u201d maneuvers using satellites in low Earth orbit \u2014 tactics that have been compared to orbital dogfighting. At a symposium in Denver, Gen. Chance Saltzman, the Space Force\u2019s chief of space operations, said he was looking for more options that would enable the U.S. to gain superiority in any future orbital conflict.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An artist\u2019s conception shows Gravitics\u2019 Orbital Carrier with payloads ready for deployment. (Gravitics Illustration) The U.S. Space Force has chosen Marysville, Wash.-based Gravitics to build and fly an orbital carrier that could deliver maneuverable space vehicles to the final frontier \u2014 and have them ready to respond to future threats. The project will be supported […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4324,439,442,332],"class_list":["post-17134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gravitics","tag-military","tag-satellites","tag-space-force"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}