{"id":50635,"date":"2024-08-31T00:48:17","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T16:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/stoke-space-nabs-small-diu-contract-to-prototype-cargo-delivery\/"},"modified":"2024-08-31T00:48:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T16:48:17","slug":"stoke-space-nabs-small-diu-contract-to-prototype-cargo-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/stoke-space-nabs-small-diu-contract-to-prototype-cargo-delivery\/","title":{"rendered":"Stoke Space Nabs Small DIU Contract to Prototype Cargo Delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p data-uw-rm-sr=\"\"><strong>Stoke Space<\/strong> received a $4.5 million contract from the <strong>Defense Innovation Unit<\/strong> (DIU) to prototype a commercial point-to-point cargo delivery solution to, through, and from space for defense applications, the company announced Aug. 28.<\/p>\n<p>DIU made the award under its Novel Responsive Space Delivery (NRSD) project. In April, DIU awarded&nbsp;<strong>The Spaceport Company<\/strong>$2.5 million under NRSD to conduct a prototype launch this year from a sea-based vessel to test autonomous features of the mobile platform and demonstrate expanded equatorial launch capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Stoke, which is based in Kent, Washington, is developing a fully-reusable two-stage that can return to its launch site from orbit. The company said the contract will help it tailor its system to deliver \u201cdefense effects\u201d from Earth to unconventional orbits and back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur unique reusable upper stage technology represents a significant leap forward in improving launch costs and launch availability through a flexible and responsive platform,\u201d Andy Lapsa, co-founder and CEO of Stoke, said in a statement. \u201cIt also presents new capabilities altogether, such as the ability to move critical payloads through space or return them to Earth. We are excited to collaborate with the DIU to evolve our capabilities to meet defense and national security needs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DIU is hosting the NRSD project in response to needs within DoD for responsive and reliable logistics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy prototyping commercial solutions for the delivery of cargo and other supplies to, through, and from space, we will equip the joint force with new methods for sustainment that directly address this need and provide a unique competitive advantage, particularly in instances in which conventional logistics pathways on Earth and in space are contested,\u201d Austin Baker, deputy portfolio director for DIU\u2019s space portfolio, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><em>This story was first published by Defense Daily<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stoke Space received a $4.5 million contract from the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to prototype a commercial point-to-point cargo delivery solution to, through, and from space for defense applications, the company announced Aug. 28. DIU made the award under its Novel Responsive Space Delivery (NRSD) project. In April, DIU awarded&nbsp;The Spaceport Company$2.5 million under NRSD [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50637,"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-50635","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\/50635"}],"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=50635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}