{"id":48674,"date":"2025-08-06T19:23:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T11:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasa-awards-otv-study-contracts-to-firefly-rocket-lab-and-others\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T19:23:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T11:23:52","slug":"nasa-awards-otv-study-contracts-to-firefly-rocket-lab-and-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasa-awards-otv-study-contracts-to-firefly-rocket-lab-and-others\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Awards OTV Study Contracts to Firefly, Rocket Lab, and Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>NASA <\/b>awarded six companies contracts to provide studies of orbital transfer vehicles (OTV) to explore future applications of OTVs for NASA missions. <strong>Arrow Science and Technology<\/strong>, <strong>Blue Origin<\/strong>, <strong>Firefly Aerospace<\/strong>, <strong>Impulse Space<\/strong>, <strong>Rocket Lab<\/strong>, and <strong>United Launch Alliance<\/strong> (ULA) all receive firm fixed-price contracts of $1.4 million, NASA announced Tuesday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Arrow will partner with Quantum Space, which is developing the Ranger multi-mission spacecraft for payload delivery. Blue Origin will produce two studies on its Blue Ring platform and another on the New Glenn upper stage.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Firefly\u2019s study will focus on its Elytra orbital transfer vehicles. Impulse Space will produce two studies, one for the Mira spacecraft and the Helios kick stage.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rocket Lab will produce two studies \u2014&nbsp;one on the upper stage of the Neutron rocket, and another on its Explorer spacecraft. And ULA will study the cislunar mission capabilities of an extended-duration Centaur V upper stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the increasing maturity of commercial space delivery capabilities, we\u2019re asking companies to demonstrate how they can meet NASA\u2019s need for multi-spacecraft and multi-orbit delivery to difficult-to-reach orbits beyond current launch service offerings,\u201d said Joe Dant, orbital transfer vehicle strategic initiative owner for the Launch Services Program at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA awarded six companies contracts to provide studies of orbital transfer vehicles (OTV) to explore future applications of OTVs for NASA missions. Arrow Science and Technology, Blue Origin, Firefly Aerospace, Impulse Space, Rocket Lab, and United Launch Alliance (ULA) all receive firm fixed-price contracts of $1.4 million, NASA announced Tuesday.&nbsp; Arrow will partner with Quantum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48675,"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":[],"class_list":["post-48674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48674"}],"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=48674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}