SpaceWERX<\/b> awarded 10 companies contract awards in the Sustained Space Maneuver Challenge to advance space mobility and resilience technologies. <\/p>\n
The 10 companies selected \u2014 Apech Labs<\/b>, BlackStar Orbital Technologies<\/b>, CisLunar Industries USA<\/b>, Dark Fission Space Systems<\/b>, Flight Works<\/b>, Katalyst Space Technologies<\/b>, Momentus Space<\/b>, Plasma Controls<\/b>, Rhea Space Activity<\/b>, and Xtenti<\/b> \u2014 each receive a Direct to Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract worth $1.9 million. <\/p>\n
The companies are tasked with developing prototypes that demonstrate \u201csustained maneuverability and resilience in space,\u201d in order to support reliability, responsiveness and mission assurance of U.S. space systems. <\/p>\n
The challenge has five focus areas: sustained maneuvering; space domain awareness; rendezvous and zero-proximity operations; on-orbit servicing; payloads, and refueling. <\/p>\n
The challenge is sponsored by U.S. Space Command J8 and it is the first SpaceWERX Challenge sponsored by a combatant command. Space Systems Command\u2019s Assured Access to Space will serve as the program office. The contract period is 15 months. <\/p>\n
\u201cWinning in space demands that we outmaneuver our adversaries. To that end, SpaceWERX, U.S. Space Command J8 and Space Systems Command are partnered to unleash commercial innovation on Sustained Space Maneuver,\u201d said Arthur Grijalva, SpaceWERX director. \u201cThis effort focuses American ingenuity on forging superior, cost-effective maneuver capabilities that will equip the U.S. Space Force to seize and dominate the initiative.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SpaceWERX awarded 10 companies contract awards in the Sustained Space Maneuver Challenge to advance space mobility and resilience technologies. The 10 companies selected \u2014 Apech Labs, BlackStar Orbital Technologies, CisLunar Industries USA, Dark Fission Space Systems, Flight Works, Katalyst Space Technologies, Momentus Space, Plasma Controls, Rhea Space Activity, and Xtenti \u2014 each receive a Direct to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48961,"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-48960","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\/48960"}],"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=48960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}