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The 2017 Economic Impact Report prepared by NASA for their Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) awards found that for FY 2016, these programs created 2,412 jobs, $474 million in economic output, and $57.3 million in fiscal impact with an initial investment of $172.9 million. [27]
On Dec. 2 NASA formally announced funding for three companies planning to build, launch, and operate privately-owned space stations: Blue Origin ($130 million), Nanoracks ($160 million), and ...
NASA spin-off technologies are commercial products and services which have been developed with the help of NASA, through research and development contracts, such as Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) or STTR awards, licensing of NASA patents, use of NASA facilities, technical assistance from NASA personnel, or data from NASA research.
The agency is turning to private companies to build new alternatives. NASA plans to spend up to $400 million on commercial space stations. It's evaluating about a dozen proposals from companies.
In August 2016 NASA estimated the combined total of all the awards, covering work in 2016 and 2017, would be approximately $65 million, with additional efforts and funding continuing into 2018. Partners were required to contribute at least 30 percent of the cost of the overall proposed effort.
Both private companies built their own space systems under NASA's guidance after the end of the space shuttle program in 2011. The agency hopes that this new program will help bring the U.S. back ...
The company had already received $36.6 million of the $125.6 million granted by NASA. [13] Also in October 2023, it was made public by CNBC that the partnership between Blue Origin and Sierra Space could end, with the two companies refocusing on their priority projects, respectively the Blue Moon and the Dream Chaser.
NASA on Thursday named nine U.S. companies, including Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N), that will compete for funding under the space agency's renewed long-term moon program, a private-public ...