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Sierra Space announced it has secured contracts with undisclosed national security and commercial customers to fly payloads aboard Dream Chaser on the spaceplane's inaugural mission, which also carries civil payloads via NASA's Cargo Resupply Services programme. CEO Dan Jablonsky said the company is 'establishing a new operational model in which the same platform serves national security, civil, and commercial customers on a single mission'. Sierra Space describes Dream Chaser as the only commercial reusable, runway-capable spaceplane, and said it is still finalising the manifest with defence, civil and commercial payloads. The customers, contract values and launch date are not disclosed in the release.

NASA selected Blue Origin on 1 September 2026 to develop its Mars Telecommunications Network, a firm-fixed-price contract with a maximum potential value of approximately $700 million to deliver a high-performance Mars telecommunications orbiter no later than 31 December 2028. Blue Origin will design, develop, integrate, launch and operate the network, which NASA expects to be operational at Mars by 2030.

Firefly was added to NASA's Spacecraft Processing Operations Contract vehicle, giving it eligibility to bid future task orders rather than a single funded award.

Impulse Space announced on 13 August 2026 a $28 million SBIR Phase III contract extension from the US Space Force Space Systems Command Space Safari Office, covering two additional missions - VICTUS SALO 2 and VICTUS SALO 3 - for which it will deliver two Mira spacecraft to host government payloads in low Earth orbit. It builds on Impulse's existing contract for VICTUS SALO 1 and VICTUS SURGO.

The Defense Innovation Unit contracted Firefly to design an Elytra-based deorbit system, pointing Elytra at the debris-removal and space-sustainability mission set.

SciTec won a $94m U.S. Space Force contract for ground-based radar digitization - the largest single disclosed award to Firefly's software subsidiary in the window.

NASA selected Lunar Outpost's proposal to advance Starweave under the agency's Announcement of Collaboration Opportunity (ACO). Starweave is the company's distributed software layer enabling swarm organisation — multiple robotic systems operating as autonomous coordinated units — for future Moon and Mars operations.

NASA selects Lunar Outpost's Starweave software for advancement under an Announcement of Collaboration Opportunity, focusing on autonomous robotic swarms.

Rocket Lab confirmed on July 27 a $266M U.S. Space Force contract — its largest launch award to date — covering 12 HASTE suborbital missions with options for six more, and a new launch site at the Pacific Spaceport Complex in Kodiak, Alaska (its fourth pad). The deal expands Rocket Lab's role in hypersonic and missile-defense testing for the Pentagon.

The Space Development Agency awarded Sierra Space a Firm Fixed Price Other Transactional Agreement with a total potential value of $798 million to design, manufacture and deliver 18 missile warning / missile tracking / missile defense satellites for the Accelerated Missile Defense Tranche 3 (AMDT3) tracking layer, part of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture and the Golden Dome for America initiative. Sierra Space's award sits inside a larger SDA action covering 36 satellites, in which L3Harris Technologies received $955 million - roughly $1.75 billion in total. Note the precise wording: this is a TOTAL POTENTIAL VALUE, i.e. a ceiling, not a booked or guaranteed $798 million.