NASA partners with seven companies for commercial and government space advancements.

NASA has partnered with seven US aerospace companies, including Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman, Sierra Space Corporation, SpaceX, Special Aerospace Services, ThinkOrbital Inc., and Vast Space LLC, to advance human spaceflight and the commercial low-Earth orbit economy. The partnerships will involve sharing technical expertise, data, assessments, and other technologies to foster a robust and sustainable low-Earth orbit ecosystem. The companies will put forth their own development costs into their respective projects, which include the development of an integrated commercial space transportation capability, autonomous and robotic capabilities for commercial science research and in-space manufacturing, and the evolution of commercial low-Earth orbit architecture.