{"id":6550,"date":"2024-09-10T01:32:37","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T17:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasa-chooses-companies-for-commercial-smallsat-services-award\/"},"modified":"2024-09-10T01:32:37","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T17:32:37","slug":"nasa-chooses-companies-for-commercial-smallsat-services-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasa-chooses-companies-for-commercial-smallsat-services-award\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Chooses Companies for Commercial SmallSat Services Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/1725857535401_638614543376224271.png\" width=\"712\" height=\"382\" alt=\"NASA Chooses Companies for Commercial SmallSat Services Award\" class=\"imageload removeImageattr\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/1725857535401_638614543376224271.png\" style=\"opacity: 0.41017;\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/1725857535401_638614543376224271.png\"><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"712\"><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"382\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>NASA<\/strong>, an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research, has selected eight companies for a new award to help acquire Earth observation data and provide related services for the agency.<\/p>\n<p>The Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition Program On-Ramp1 Multiple Award contract is a firm-fixed-price indefinite-delivery\/indefinite-quantity multiple-award contract with a maximum value of $476 million, cumulatively amongst all the selected contractors, and a performance period through Nov. 15, 2028.<\/p>\n<p>The selectees are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BlackSky Geospatial Solutions in Herndon, Virginia<\/li>\n<li>ICEYE US in Irvine, California<\/li>\n<li>MDA Geospatial Service in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada<\/li>\n<li>Pixxel Space Technologies in El Segundo, California<\/li>\n<li>Planet Labs Federal in Arlington, Virginia<\/li>\n<li>Satellogic Federal in Davidson, North Carolina<\/li>\n<li>Teledyne Brown Engineering in Huntsville, Alabama<\/li>\n<li>The Tomorrow Companies in Boston<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Under the contract, the recipients will be responsible for acquiring observation data from commercial sources that support NASA&#8217;s Earth science research and application activities that help improve life on the planet. The goal of the awards is to give NASA a cost-effective way to augment or complement the Earth observations acquired by the agency and other U.S. government&nbsp;and international agencies for the benefit of all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA, an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research, has selected eight companies for a new award to help acquire Earth observation data and provide related services for the agency. The Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition Program On-Ramp1 Multiple Award contract is a firm-fixed-price indefinite-delivery\/indefinite-quantity [&hellip;]<\/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":[26,25,20],"class_list":["post-6550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ground","tag-launch","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6550"}],"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=6550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}