Sierra Space

Overview

• Industryaerospace engineering¹
• HeadquartersBroomfield¹
• Websitesierraspace.com

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Sierra Space Corporation is a privately held aerospace and space technologies company headquartered in Louisville, Colorado, with additional facilities in Colorado, Wisconsin, Florida, North Carolina and a testing site at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. The company makes spaceflight hardware for various applications across the industry.²

Corporate structure

Sierra Space is part of a group headed by Sierra Nevada Corporation. 3 entities, 1 country on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

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The story

Founded by Eren Özmen and Fatih Özmen.¹

Leadership

Who has led Sierra Space, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

• FounderEren Özmen¹
• FounderFatih Özmen¹
• Chief executive officerJanet L. Kavandi¹

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

• Sierra Nevada Corporation

From Wikidata.¹

Employees over time

• 20242,000¹

Funding

Where the company's money came from, by calendar year: private offerings filed with the SEC, federal grants, loans, contracts and other assistance from USAspending.gov, and PPP loans from the SBA. Each bar links to the records below.

Federal awards

Obligated amounts from USAspending.gov³, by calendar year, 2023–2026, for its registration. Obligations are what agencies committed, not always what was paid out. Contracts pay for goods and services; grants, loans and direct payments are assistance. Loans are charted at the face value of the loans listed here. An award’s amount below is its lifetime total, and some began before the years charted.

Largest grants

1. Nov 27, 2023$2.0M from National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Exploration⁴ To SIERRA SPACE CORP Award 80NSSC24K0449
2. Dec 16, 2024$60.1K from National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Space Technology⁵ To SIERRA SPACE CORP Award 80NSSC25M7065

Largest contracts

1. Aug 29, 2017$27.3M from National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Igf::ot::igf nasa baa/nra award. proposal title "next space technologies for exploration partnership - nextstep-2. the nextstep-2 study co⁶ To SIERRA SPACE CORP Award 80HQTR17C0009
2. Jun 9, 2023$22.6M from Department of the Air Force: Small business innovative research (sbir) ph iii maturation of the vr35k-a advanced upper stage engine⁷ To SIERRA SPACE CORP Award FA930023C6015
3. Jul 19, 2022$20.2M from Department of the Air Force: Small business innovative research (sbir) phase iii "maturation of snc upper stage vortex engine enhancement"⁸ To SIERRA SPACE CORP Award FA930022C6022
4. Sep 25, 2024$16.0M from Department of the Air Force: Sbir phase iii - maturation of the vr25k-a advanced upper stage engine.⁹ To SIERRA SPACE CORP Award FA930024C6009
5. May 2, 2019$12.5M from National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Baa r&d - the next space technologies for exploration partnerships -2 (nextstep-2) appendix f: logistics reduction (lr) in space by trash co¹⁰ To SIERRA SPACE CORP Award 80HQTR19C0019

Links

• Websitesierraspace.com¹
• X (Twitter)x.com/SierraSpaceCo¹
• Facebookwww.facebook.com/SierraSpaceCo¹
• Instagramwww.instagram.com/sierraspaceco¹
• LinkedInwww.linkedin.com/company/sierraspace¹
• WikipediaSierra Space
• More imagesWikimedia Commons
• WikidataQ109256454