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Sierra Space has successfully performed a month-long Accelerated Systematic Creep (ASC) test on LIFE habitat – the first milestone in its 2023 testing campaign.

Engineers loaded a one-third-scale version of the inflatable habitat with a sustained amount of pressure over an extended ...period until it failed.

The campaign demonstrated that the LIFE habitat pressure shell design has a predicted life of far greater than 60 years – or 525,600 hours – based on Sierra Space’s 15-year on-orbit life requirement and the applied 4x safety factor.

The next series of one-third-scale LIFE certification tests will focus on inserting hard structures into the pressure shell and correlating the results to previous tests. Sierra Space anticipates moving toward full-scale LIFE habitat tests later this year.

Thanks to a recently signed Space Act Agreement with @nasa, Sierra Space will expand its collaborative environment with @nasa_marshall, in Huntsville, Ala., to continue critical work on LIFE. Alabama is the seventh location across the nation where Sierra Space operates facilities, joining Colorado, Florida, North Carolina, Texas, Wisconsin and Washington, D.C.

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Shooting Star adds a service for NASA to send additional critical science, food, and cargo to the space station.

Once Shooting Star separates from Dream Chaser, the spaceplane glides gently back onto Kennedy Space Center’s runway.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3m2sSrK

Compatible with a wide array of current and future launch vehicles, the Dream Chaser accommodates more than 12,000 lbs of supplies and equipment.

What would you take with you to space?

https://bit.ly/3s1HWJL

Sierra Space is launching a new strategy and government affairs group, headed by one of the most prominent and seasoned government operations executives inside the Beltway. Tim Keating will lead the new organization, positioning Sierra Space at the forefront of commercial and national security ...policy in the Orbital Age™.

Further establishing our Flight Director Office, Jerry Jason joins us with more than 25 years of space flight operations experience at University of Colorado's Laboratory For Atmospheric and Space Physics as well as #NASA. Jason will oversee Dream Chaser during real-time flight operations from... pre-launch through post-landing.

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