Sierra Space and Redwire Partner to Bring In-Space Biotech Facilities to Customers via the Sierra Space Platform
August 21 2023 - 6:30AM
Business Wire
Redwire to deliver state-of-the-art commercial biotechnology
and manufacturing technology for Sierra Space’s LIFE™
habitat
Sierra Space, a leading pureplay commercial space company
building the first end-to-end business and technology platform in
space, announced today its strategic partnership with Redwire
Corporation (NYSE: RDW), a leader in space infrastructure for the
next generation space economy.
Specifically, the two companies are collaborating on
groundbreaking commercial pharmaceutical and biotech R&D and
manufacturing in low-Earth orbit (LEO). Redwire is delivering
state-of-the-art, flight-proven biotechnology and manufacturing
technologies that will be integrated into Sierra Space’s Large
Integrated Flexible Environment (LIFE) habitat platform, making
them available to customers and enabling commercial breakthroughs
for pharmaceutical drug development and human health research.
“The most significant industrial revolution is underway in
space, as we build the first microgravity factories that will
benefit humanity with breakthrough innovations and solutions to our
toughest problems here on Earth,” said Sierra Space CEO Tom Vice.
“In Redwire, we have a partner that has a proven history of
innovation across in-space manufacturing and biotech facilities.
Together we will enable discoveries in human healthcare, biopharma
and across the widest range of the industrials sector as we extend
research facilities and factories off-world in the Orbital
Age.”
"Redwire is proud to have been selected by Sierra Space to
deliver state-of-the-art biopharma and manufacturing facilities for
the Sierra LIFE Pathfinder module, leveraging decades of proven
microgravity research and development on the International Space
Station to provide extraordinary technological and economic benefit
to humanity," said Redwire Chairman and CEO Peter Cannito.
Redwire will deliver a suite of space hardware and ground-based
equipment, including biotechnology for large molecule
crystallization for pharmaceutical structure determination and
formulation, thermally conditioned stowage lockers, manufacturing
facilities for industrial crystals, and a gradient-temperature
furnace. Additionally, Redwire is providing technical expertise for
automation and robotics. Hardware development is underway with
deliveries expected to begin in the fourth quarter of 2023. All of
this work is built upon the foundation of hundreds of experiments
that Redwire has flown on the International Space Station (ISS),
including the 10 current payloads aboard the ISS today.
Sierra Space’s LIFE habitat launches on a conventional rocket
and expands to the size of a three-story building on-orbit. The
unique structure will provide opportunities for multiple
businesses, including manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and other
sectors, to optimize zero gravity benefits. The LIFE habitat has
been developed and tested to meet NASA micrometeoroid impact and
thermal capability requirements. Having already successfully
completed four stress tests since 2022, a full-scale test is
scheduled for fall 2023.
Redwire is expanding its operational capacity to better support
increased commercial demand for biotechnology and industrial
manufacturing as the company recently announced plans to develop a
new 30,000 square foot facility in Indiana. Additionally, Redwire
is continuing to support robust utilization on the ISS by planning,
developing, and ultimately operating additional flight payloads on
the ISS over the next 12 months.
About Sierra Space
Sierra Space (www.sierraspace.com) is a leading, pure play
commercial space company at the forefront of innovation and the
commercialization of space in the Orbital Age™, building an
end-to-end business and technology platform in space to benefit
life on Earth. With more than 30 years and 500 missions of space
flight heritage, the company is enabling the future of space
transportation with Dream Chaser®, the world’s only commercial
spaceplane, and is bringing LIFE™ (Large Integrated Flexible
Environment) to low-Earth orbit with its modular, three-story
commercial habitation and science platform. Both Dream Chaser and
LIFE are central components to Orbital Reef, a mixed-use business
park in LEO being developed by principal partners Sierra Space and
Blue Origin, which is expected to be operational by the end of the
decade. Sierra Space also builds and delivers a host of systems and
subsystems across solar power, mechanics and motion control,
environmental control, life support, propulsion and thermal
control, offering myriad space-as-a-service solutions for the new
space economy.
About Redwire
Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW) is a global leader in mission
critical space solutions and high reliability components for the
next generation space economy, with valuable intellectual property
for solar power generation, in-space 3D printing and manufacturing,
avionics, critical components, sensors, digital engineering, and
space-based biotechnology. We combine decades of flight heritage
with an agile and innovative culture. Our “Heritage plus
Innovation” strategy enables us to combine proven performance with
new, innovative capabilities to provide our customers with the
building blocks for the present and future of space infrastructure.
For more information, please visit redwirespace.com.
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