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NASA Selects Firms for Commercial SmallSat Providers Award

.NASA has actually decided on 8 firms for a brand-new honor to aid obtain Earth monitoring information and also offer related services for the agency.The Office SmallSat Information Acquisition Program On-Ramp1 A number of Honor arrangement is actually a firm-fixed-price indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple-award contract with a maximum market value of $476 thousand, cumulatively among all the decided on specialists, and also a functionality period via Nov. 15, 2028.The selectees are actually:.BlackSky Geospatial Solutions, Inc. in Herndon, Virginia.ICEYE United States Inc. in Irvine, California.MDA Geospatial Solution Inc. in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada.Pixxel Area Technologies, Inc in El Segundo, California.Planet Labs Federal, Inc. in Arlington, Virginia.Satellogic Federal, LLC in Davidson, North Carolina.Teledyne Brown Design, Inc. in Huntsville, Alabama.The Tomorrow Firms Inc. in Boston.Under the arrangement, the receivers will certainly be in charge of getting monitoring records from industrial resources that assist NASA's Planet science research study and also request tasks that help enhance life on earth. The target of the awards is actually to give NASA an affordable technique to enhance or match the Earth observations gotten due to the organization and other U.S. authorities and international companies for the benefit of all.For information about NASA and also agency programs, visit:.https://www.nasa.gov.- end-.Tiernan DoyleHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600tiernan.doyle@nasa.gov.