This California-based space technology firm hopes to engineer one of the first reusable business platforms in space.
The U.S. Space Force has inked a deal to build satellites in orbit in a bid to boost space infrastructure. agreement, the U.S. defense agency's innovation division SpaceWERX has awarded a $1.6 million Direct-to-Phase II SBIR contract to the California-based Arkisys Inc., in collaboration with aerospace partners Qediq Inc, Novawurks, Motive Space Systems, iBoss, and the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station .
for existing customers and new markets in Earth orbit, the moon, Mars and beyond, according to the company."This new effort expands the overall services we have created to include the high fidelity manipulation required to assemble and then release a new space platform off of our Ports in orbit," said Dave Barnhart of Arkisys Inc. in the official press release.
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