VADR Launch Services Contract
VADR
Building on NASA’s efforts to promote development of new commercial launch vehicles for NASA payloads, LSP’s Venture-class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) contract provides launch services for payloads that can tolerate higher risk.
The VADR launch services contract embraces a commercial approach that utilizes a lower level of mission assurance to achieve lower launch costs. VADR will provide launches of CubeSats and other small satellites either on dedicated missions or as rideshare payloads on other launches. These highly flexible VADR contracts will help broaden access to space by fostering growth in the U.S. commercial launch market.
Below are the 12 companies selected by NASA to provide launch services for VADR.
ABL Space Systems
of El Segundo, California
Arrow Science and Technology
of Houston, TX
Astra Space
of Alameda, California
Blue Origin
of Merritt Island, Florida
Firefly Aerospace
of Cedar Park, Texas
Impulse
of Redondo Beach, CA
L2 Solutions
of Houston, Texas
Momentus
of San Jose, CA
Northrop Grumman
of Chandler, Arizona
Phantom Space
of Tucson, Arizona
Relativity Space
of Long Beach, California
Rocket Lab
of Long Beach, California
Spaceflight
of Seattle, Washington
SpaceX
of Hawthorne, California
United Launch Alliance
of Centennial, Colorado