Sierra Nevada Corporation: Commercial (United States), launches, rockets and satellites

Industry / Companies / Sierra Nevada Corporation

0Orbital launches

0All launches (incl. suborbital)

3Satellites in orbit

21Satellites built

1Rockets / spacecraft

Sierra Nevada Corporation is a commercial company based in the United States, founded in 1963. Our records show 3 satellites in orbit and 1 rockets or spacecraft.

Totals include the divisions, sites and subsidiaries listed under Structure below.

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Sources disagree.
Founding year: Launch Library 2 says 1963; GCAT (J. McDowell) says 2008
We show the value from the most detailed source and flag the difference instead of guessing.

Structure

Divisions, sites and subsidiaries

Microsat Systems Inc (MSI) 0 orbital launches · 0 satellites in orbit Sierra Nevada Corp. Space Systems (Louisville) 0 orbital launches · 0 satellites in orbit Sierra Nevada Corp. Space Systems (SpaceDev) 0 orbital launches · 0 satellites in orbit

Products

Rockets and spacecraft

Name	Type	Status	First flight	Launches	To low orbit
Dream Chaser	Spaceplane	Active		0

In the news

Recent headlines

A Volcanic Medley Near Mammoth Lakes NASA · 8 Apr 2026
National Reconnaissance Office adds HEO, SatVu and Sierra Nevada to commercial imaging program SpaceNews · 10 Feb 2026
NASA, Sierra Space Modify Commercial Resupply Services Contract NASA · 25 Sep 2025
SNC scaling up its fleet of radio-frequency monitoring satellites SpaceNews · 16 Aug 2024
Sierra Space raises nearly $300 million from Japanese consortium at over $5 billion valuation CNBC · 25 Sep 2023
Sierra Space raises $1.4 billion SpaceNews · 19 Nov 2021
Sierra Space signs Dream Chaser agreement with British spaceport SpaceNews · 9 Jun 2021
Sierra Nevada Corporation to advertise space spinoff on Saturday Night Live SpaceNews · 7 May 2021
Sierra Nevada Corporation to spin off space division SpaceNews · 14 Apr 2021
First Dream Chaser mission slips to 2022 SpaceNews · 18 Nov 2020

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Provenance

Where this comes from

This entry merges 2 sources: Launch Library 2 · GCAT (J. McDowell)
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Launch and satellite data: Jonathan McDowell's GCAT (CC BY 4.0) and CelesTrak. Rockets, spacecraft and agencies: Launch Library 2 by The Space Devs and Wikidata. News headlines link to their publishers via the Spaceflight News API and RSS feeds. Records come from several sources and are matched automatically, so treat the directory as a research aid, not an authority. How the data is built and checked.