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Boeing, NanoRacks Enter Commercial ISS Airlock Development Partnership

Boeing, NanoRacks Enter Commercial ISS Airlock Development Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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Boeing, NanoRacks Enter Commercial ISS Airlock Development Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting eventBoeing and NanoRacks have formed an alliance to build a new commercial airlock designed to help the U.S. increase its capability to deploy small satellites, equipment and payloads from the International Space Station.

The companies plan to attach the NanoRacks Airlock Module to the ISS U.S. segment in 2019, Boeing said Monday.

Boeing will develop and install the airlock’s hardware – Passive Common Berthing Mechanism – that works to link the ISS’ pressurized modules.

Mark Mulqueen, ISS program manager at Boeing, said NanoRacks’ commercial airlock will help both companies to meet customers’ demand for payload deployments.

The proposed commercial airlock would be in addition to the airlock the U.S. currently uses on the ISS Japanese Experiment Module.

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Written by Jane Edwards

is a staff writer at Executive Mosaic, where she writes for ExecutiveBiz about IT modernization, cybersecurity, space procurement and industry leaders’ perspectives on government technology trends.

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