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Sierra Nevada is a robotics company founded 2021, based in United States, developing 1 robot primarily in the Research category.
CAPITAL & EVIDENCE
Sierra Nevada has no confirmed funding round on file and has 1 cited customer but no deployment on record.
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1customer cited
named in a public source · no deployment on record
- NASA· 2016nasa.gov ↗
A deployment is recorded when a public source names both the customer and the robot, or the maker confirms it. Nothing here counts against Sierra Nevada.
In Research & Prototype, Saildrone, HEBI Robotics and NASA have deployment evidence on file.
Add a deployment →Reusable spaceplanes, satellites, propulsion, and hypersonics
Sierra Space is a US aerospace and robotics-adjacent space systems company headquartered in Colorado that develops reusable spaceplanes, satellite platforms, critical subsystems, propulsion systems, and hypersonic technologies. Its Dream Chaser spacecraft is a reusable lifting-body spaceplane being developed in cargo configuration for NASA ISS resupply missions; Sierra Space says the vehicle is designed for up to 15 reuses and multi-use applications.
Active products
1
RoboIndex
37.19
RoboScore 37.19 + Momentum 0.00
Company facts
- Legal name
- Sierra Nevada Corporation
- HQ
- Broomfield, United States
- Founded
- 2021 · 5 yrs
- Website
- www.sierraspace.com
RoboScore
37.19 RoboScore + 0.00 Momentum· Speculative — thin evidence
Products 65%, Depth 5%, Evidence 30% set the number, and every rated company has all three. Attention has no weight of its own — it is one of the two things Evidence is built from, and it can only ever add. Activity and Readiness describe the brand but never move it. A value we don't have reads —, never zero. Momentum is independently collected news coverage, worth at most 15 points and never a deduction — a maker we have heard nothing about keeps its full RoboScore. Claiming or paying moves nothing.
5 of 6 factors known. How it's calculated
Milestones
Sierra Space announced a strategic transition for Dream Chaser to expand capabilities and mission readiness for multi-use applications.
NASA selected Sierra Space as its third commercial cargo resupply spacecraft provider for ISS missions.
Press coverage
- Sierra Space's Dream Chaser New Station Resupply Spacecraft for NASA
NASA · Jan 2016
- Sierra Nevada Unveils Cargo Version of Private Dream Chaser Space Plane
Space.com · Mar 2014
- Dream Chaser
Wikipedia
Public loss record
US makers file into registers that compel reporting — device adverse events to the FDA, driverless crashes to NHTSA, workplace deaths to OSHA. A maker with no record here has genuinely not had one filed against it.
Active products by Sierra Nevada
1 shown| # | Category | Key specs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Dream Chaser Eagle | Research | Payload 5500 kg | 2024 | 36.9 |
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