As the aerospace agency with the largest investment in the world, NASA has invested tens of billions of dollars in supporting commercial aerospace companies in the past decade, which has important reference value for the development of domestic commercial aerospace.<\/p>\n
Today let\u2019s talk about: the top 10 commercial aerospace companies with the largest NASA budgets.<\/p>\n
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Commercial space company with largest NASA budget<\/p>\n
Based on the public expenditure information data of the U.S. government, “Nihao Space” statistically analyzed NASA’s budget allocation (see our previous article “Where does NASA spend more than 20 billion US dollars every year?” for details), and selected the top 10 commercial aerospace companies with the largest NASA budget: NASA, as the world’s largest space agency with the largest funding, is fully responsible for the planning and implementation of civil aerospace projects led by the U.S. government. Its aerospace budget allocation system includes five major items: science, aeronautics, space technology innovation, space exploration, and space operations. Analyzing and understanding the specific amount, content and related projects of contracts obtained by these 10 companies from NASA has important reference and reference value for the development direction of domestic commercial aerospace. <\/p>\n
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What projects is the contract budget spent on?<\/p>\n
10. TRAX International Corporation Total contract value: approximately US$425 million Contract content: Logistics management services, technical information services 1. Provide logistics and technical information services to NASA, with a contract value of approximately US$406 million; 2. Provide logistics management support for NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Center, with a contract value of approximately US$18.2367 million. 9. General Dynamics Information Technology (General Dynamics Information Technology) Total contract value: approximately US$519 million Contract content: NASA supercomputing support services, NASA Shared Services Center support services 1. Support the supercomputing services of NASA\u2019s Advanced Supercomputing Department and Ames Research Center, with a contract value of approximately US$393 million; 2. Provide high-end computing and data support for NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center and the Computing and Information Science and Technology Office, with a contract value of approximately US$93,054,500; 3. Two contracts to provide support services for NASA\u2019s Shared Services Center, with a total contract value of approximately US$32.3732 million. 8. Aerojet Rocketdyne (Rocketdyne) Contract total: approximately US$531 million Contract content: Artemis missions, deep space exploration, planetary science missions 1. Provide 10 RL10 flight engines and 2 spare engines to provide support for the Artemis 2 and Artemis 3 missions, with a contract value of approximately US$265 million; 2. Develop solar electric propulsion systems to provide support for future deep space exploration, with a contract value of approximately US$222 million; 3. Develop next-generation ion propulsion technology for future planetary science missions, with a contract value of approximately US$44.8233 million. 7. Science Systems and Applications (Science Systems Applications Company) Total contract value: approximately US$663 million Contract content: Electrical\/electronic engineering support services, future space science missions Provide electrical\/electronic engineering support services and related work to designated departments of NASA, develop and verify new technologies to support future space science missions, the contract amounts in the past three years, that is, 2022-2024, are US$116 million, US$109 million, and US$76.03 million respectively. 6. Bechtel National (Bechtel) Total contract value: approximately US$1.199 billion Contract content: SLS ML2 Responsible for the design and construction of NASA SLS ML2 (Mobile Launch Platform No. 2), with a total contract value of approximately US$1.199 billion. 5. Leidos Contract total: approximately US$1.308 billion Contract content: NASA manned space program, NASA headquarters safety and health services 1. Responsible for the development and operation of mission operation facilities for NASA\u2019s manned space program, with a contract value of approximately US$1.307 billion; 2. Responsible for NASA headquarters safety and health services, with a contract value of approximately US$905,200. 4. Northrop Grumman (Northrop Grumman) Total contract value: approximately US$1.733 billion Contract content: Cygnus cargo spacecraft, defense technology development 1. Based on the deep space delivery capability of SLS, Northrop Grumman\u2019s Orbital Science Cygnus cargo spacecraft will be improved into a manned deep space exploration version, and a series of technical verifications will be conducted. The contract value is approximately US$1.118 billion; 2. Development of advanced national defense technology and electronic communication equipment, with a contract value of approximately US$607 million; 3. Provide technical support services for NASA’s BLOCK 20 Global Hawk aircraft, with a contract value of approximately US$7.3283 million. 3. SpaceX (Space Exploration Technology Company) Total contract value: approximately US$2.325 billion Contract content: Dragon spacecraft, International Space Station 1. Implement an integrated crew transportation system that can transport NASA crew members to and from the International Space Station, namely the Dragon spacecraft, with a contract value of approximately US$2.3 billion; 2. Develop USDV (deorbit vehicle) to perform the final deorbiting of the International Space Station, with a contract value of approximately US$25.2172 million. 2. Peraton Total contract value: approximately US$3.195 billion Contract content: satellite operation, weather monitoring, space network, sounding rocket Peraton Company has received a total of 6 NASA contracts, among which the three largest contracts are: 1. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center\u2019s space communication network service contract to provide support for the operation and maintenance of space and ground networks, with a contract value of approximately US$1.2 billion; 2. Manage and operate geostationary communication relay satellites and ground systems, unify space networks and near-Earth networks, with a contract value of approximately US$1.04 billion; 3. NASA sounding rocket contract, develop suborbital payloads and complete flight qualification tests, provide launch vehicles and related hardware, and provide support for various activities related to subsequent launch missions, with a contract value of approximately US$328 million. 1. The Boeing Company (Boeing Company) Total contract value: approximately US$10.228 billion Contract content: Starliner, SLS, aviation business Boeing Company has received a total of 8 NASA contracts, of which the three largest contracts are: 1. Manufacturing and assembly of the SLS core stage, upper stage and avionics equipment suite. The core stage is a large cryogenic system that needs to be able to store liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. The contract value is approximately US$9.945 billion; 2. Realize the development of an integrated crew transportation system that can transport NASA crew members to and from the International Space Station, namely the interstellar passenger ship, with a contract value of approximately US$254 million; 3. Develop exploration enhancement modules for the NextStep commercial deep space exploration program, and subsequently provide support for lunar and Mars exploration, with a contract value of approximately US$24.044 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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