Company: Sidus Space, Cape Canaveral, FL
Nomination Submitted by: Gregory FCA
Company Description: Sidus Space operates a manufacturing, assembly, integration, and testing facility focused on Space-as-a-Service solutions including end-to-end satellite support. Its broad range of offerings include space-rated hardware manufacturing, design engineering, satellite manufacturing and platform development, launch and support services, data analytics services, and satellite constellation management.
Nomination Category: Achievement Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Achievement in Product Innovation
 Nomination Title: Sidus Space
- Which will you submit for your nomination in this category, a video of up to five (5) minutes, explaining the nominated achievements since July 1 of 2020, OR written answers to the questions? (Choose one):
Written answers to the questions
- If you are submitting a video of up to five (5) minutes in length, provide the URL of the video here, OR attach it to your entry via the "Add Attachments, Videos, or Links to This Entry" link above, through which you may also upload a copy of your video. If you are submitting written answers to the questions, provide them in the appropriate spaces below:
- Briefly describe the nominated organization: history and past performance (up to 200 words):
Total 162 words used.
Sidus Space increases the viability of low-cost access to space by enabling the rapid and affordable deployment of disruptive applications that make it easy for any corporation, industry, or vertical to start their journey off-planet. Sidus offers rapidly scalable, low-cost satellite services, space-based solutions, and testing alternatives. More than just a “Satellite-as-a-Service” provider, Sidus becomes your trusted Mission Partner from concept to Low Earth Orbit and beyond, “Bringing Space Down to Earth.” Sidus has nearly 10 years of manufacturing experience for commercial, military, and government customers’ space flight heritage and space qualification experience, and is led by CEO and founder Carol Craig, making Sidus a service-disabled veteran, woman, and Hispanic minority-owned small business. Craig is a remarkable example of industry leaders who develop new and innovative technologies, serve the government and commercial space industries, and is backed by proven experience in the design, development, and commercialization of new and innovative space technologies and services through aerospace and defense partnerships and collaboration.
- Outline the organization's achievements since the beginning of last year that you wish to bring to the judges' attention (up to 250 words):
Total 250 words used.
Sidus continues to develop new and innovative technologies, including developing and manufacturing a multi-mission satellite for use in a Low Earth Orbit multi-mission constellation. Sidus’ multi-mission satellite for a multi-mission constellation supports their innovative Space as a Service business model as a more collaborative and sustainable trend in the industry, pooling resources to access data from space responsibly.
- External Flight Test Platform (EFTP) offers the ability to develop, test, and fly experiments, hardware, materials, and advanced electronics on the ISS in an external space environment at a reduced cost and schedule. The EFTP includes integration and delivery to the International Space Station (ISS). EFTP was transported back to Earth aboard the SpX-21 Cargo Dragon Capsule in January 2021 after nine months of successful in-orbit testing.
- Phoenix is in development as a CubeSat deployer that utilizes the Sidus Space operated SSIKLOPS deployment platform to deploy CubeSats from the ISS. Phoenix will offer a low-cost and high availability deployer option for CubeSats within the 3U to 12U range. U refers to the standard “Cubesat” dimensions of 10 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm which are used to describe space on spacecraft.
- LizzieSat (LS) is in development and recently conducted the Phase 1 Safety Review with NASA. LS is a multipurpose satellite integrating custom payloads leveraging flight-proven communications, power, navigation & computing subsystems to provide our domestic and international customers with valuable data from Low Earth Orbit. LS gathers valuable remote sensing data which Sidus offers to academic, commercial, and defense industries.
- Explain why the achievements you have highlighted are unique or significant. If possible compare the achievements to the performance of other players in your industry and/or to the organization's past performance (up to 250 words):
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Sidus Space is the first woman owned and solely funded space company to go public, putting Carol Craig in a category of her own. It is a vertically integrated provider of Space-as-a-Service solutions including end-to-end satellite support, combining mission critical hardware manufacturing; multi-disciplinary engineering services; satellite design, production, launch planning, mission operations; and in-orbit support to meet the needs of military, civil and commercial customers. Sidus Space is developing the advanced Multi-Mission Satellite constellation using its hybrid 3D printed satellite to provide continuous, near real-time Earth Observation and Internet-of-Things (IOT) data. Sidus offerings include satellite operators, value-added services, subsystems and components, satellite manufacturing, and access to space and the ISS.
- External Flight Test Platform (EFTP) Potential payloads include optical communications, materials, satellite components, electroplating, and pharmaceutical testing.
- Phoenix Sidus Space and Dhruva Space entered into a partnership in 2020 to collaborate and catalyze the design, development, and commercialization of innovative space technologies and services. This partnership, leveraging each company’s technologies, increases the breadth and depth related to both offerings and customers resulting in Phoenix’s expanded services.
- LizzieSat (LS) LS will leverage its in-house low-cost additive manufacturing of satellites using the Markforged X7, an industrial 3D printer featuring a dual nozzle print system supporting continuous carbon fiber and Kevlar reinforcement, providing rapid, agile development of spacecraft. The effective mitigation of hazards ensures safe operations during the launch of the cargo resupply rockets and while onboard the ISS, and results in a more robust design that will provide additional benefits to customers.
- Reference any attachments of supporting materials throughout this nomination and how they provide evidence of the claims you have made in this nomination (up to 250 words):
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Attached is a collection of web addresses that explain Sidus Space's innovative achievements since July, 2020.
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