NASA awards payload processing contracts to four commercial firms
NASA has chosen All Points Logistics, Blue Origin, Firefly Aerospace and L3Harris Technologies to provide payload processing services under a new contract provision.
NASA announced that four firms—All Points Logistics LLC, Blue Origin LLC, Firefly Aerospace and L3Harris Technologies Inc.—will supply payload processing facilities under the Spacecraft Processing Operations Contract on-ramp provision. This provision allows qualified providers to offer commercial processing services for missions launching from locations that lacked capability when the original contract was awarded. The agreement is a multiple-award, firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with an aggregate ceiling price of $100 million and an ordering period extending to Feb. 1 2033.
Management of the contract will be handled by NASA’s Launch Services Program at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The program collaborates with private industry and international partners to launch a range of science payloads, from university small satellites to NASA’s highest-priority missions. Contact information for NASA officials Joshua Finch and Leejay Lockhart was provided for further inquiries.
Why it matters
The contracts expand commercial capacity for processing spacecraft, supporting a broader range of NASA missions.
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