NASA Picks Blue Origin, Firefly, L3Harris for $100M Spacecraft Contract
17 Aug 2026
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MSN - NASA selected All Points Logistics, Blue Origin, Firefly Aerospace (FLY) and L3Harris Technologies (LHX) to compete for spacecraft and rocket-hardware processing work under a contract with a combined ceiling of $100 million.
The four companies were added through an on-ramp provision in NASA’s Spacecraft Processing Operations Contract. The provision allows qualified providers to offer commercial payload-processing services at launch locations where those capabilities were unavailable when the original contract was awarded.
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Note: Blue Origin is headquartered in Kent.
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