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SpaceX And Astrotech Wins NASA's SPO $100M Contract

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NASA has awarded a Spacecraft Processing Operations Contract worth up to $100 million to SpaceX and Astrotech Space Operations.

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The contract has a potential 10-year ordering period, running from February 2023 to February 2033.

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The contract covers operations at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, and Vandenberg Space Force Base.

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The contract includes an on-ramp provision for new commercial processing facilities and support services to be introduced.

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The contract operations will be managed by NASA's Launch Services Program at the Kennedy Space Center.

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NASA will issue task orders for pre-launch processing of spacecraft and associated rocket flight hardware.

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SpaceX has a payload processing facility at Kennedy Space Center and has supported 26 missions to the International Space Station.

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SpaceX is expected to build another payload processing facility at Kennedy for Starship operations.

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Astrotech has been providing spacecraft launch services for NASA since 1985 and has processed 371 payloads to date.

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Astrotech worked on the USSF-44 mission, which was launched to orbit by SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket in November 2022.

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