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Sierra Space

Sierra Space is a US commercial space company developing the Dream Chaser spaceplane, LIFE habitat, and satellite systems.

Founded
2021
HQ
Louisville, Colorado, USA
Status
active

The verified answer

As of Sep 2026, DEPLOY verifies Sierra Space: 1 model, $2.2B raised. 2 sources back the record.

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Overview

Sierra Space is a US commercial space company developing the Dream Chaser spaceplane, LIFE habitat, and satellite systems. Dream Chaser is a reusable lifting-body spacecraft for cargo resupply to ISS. Spun out from Sierra Nevada Corporation in 2021. Developing autonomous orbital operations and in-space manufacturing.

Verified record

Verified deployments
None on file
Active incidents
None on file

Valuation of record

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$5.5B (reported, approximate)as of Mar 2026

Priced roundSeries C post-money

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Key facts

Founded

2021 (spun out from Sierra Nevada Corporation), Louisville, Colorado

CEO

Tom Vice (former Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems president)

Product

Dream Chaser reusable spaceplane; Large Integrated Flexible Environment (LIFE) inflatable habitat; Orbital Reef commercial space station (with Blue Origin)

Employees

~2,200

Contracts

NASA Commercial Resupply Services ($2B+); NASA Commercial LEO Destinations; UNP contract extension 2024

Partners

Blue Origin (Orbital Reef), Boeing, Redwire, Genesis Engineering

IPOs

Planned SPAC merger with Tailwind Acquisition II (2024, cancelled); new IPO planned via Cantor Fitzgerald 2026-2028 window

Product — Dream Chaser

Reusable lifting-body spaceplane for ISS cargo resupply

Product — LIFE habitat

Large Inflatable Flexible Environment — orbital habitat

Origin

Spun out from Sierra Nevada Corporation (2021)

Autonomy

Autonomous orbital operations, in-space manufacturing

Data & sources

Web sources

2

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Partnerships

Every company Sierra Space has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.

4 total4 just announced

Most-frequent partners

  1. 1Blue Robotics1× joint3 total
  2. 2Boeing1× joint6 total
  3. 3Genesis Robotics1× joint1 total
  4. 4Redwire Corporation1× joint1 total

Most recent

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Relationships

Current leadership (1)

Board (1)

Former / Previously (1)

  • Tom Vice CEO (2021-2024)2021 to 2025secondary-verified

Safety record

No incidents on record for Sierra Space.

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Recent coverage

Sierra Space in third-party press

Peers

56 peers across 1 segment. Every Sierra Space competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.

space(56)

36 companies in this segment · low_concentration (HHI 1188.742650389188) · leader K2 Space at 2172%