# Sierra Space: space company profile

> Sierra Space: Sierra Space is developing the Dream Chaser spaceplane for NASA's CRS-2 cargo missions alongside its LIFE habitat for future commercial space stations.

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- Data as of: profile last verified 2026-09-04
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## Profile facts

- Name: Sierra Space (legal name Sierra Space Corp)
- What it does: Sierra Space is developing the Dream Chaser spaceplane for NASA's CRS-2 cargo missions alongside its LIFE habitat for future commercial space stations. (SpaceNexus analyst note)
- Sector: infrastructure
- Headquarters: Louisville, Colorado, US
- Founded: 2021
- Chief executive: Dan Jablonsky
- Status: active
- Ownership: private
- Publicly traded: no
- Website: [https://www.sierraspace.com](https://www.sierraspace.com) (SpaceNexus profile)
- Profile claimed by the company: no
- Profile last verified: 2026-09-04

## Funding

- Raised privately: $2.28B (4 private rounds on record. Debt, grants, state capital, owner funding and acquisitions are listed under Funding history by class and not added in.)
- Last Round: Series C (Mar 2026)
- Valuation on the profile: $8.00B

| Date | Round | Amount (USD) | Lead investor | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-03-05 | Series C | $550.0M | LuminArx Capital Management | [Sierra Space](https://www.sierraspace.com/press-releases/sierra-space-closes-550-million-in-series-c-round-with-a-valuation-of-8-billion/) |
| 2023-09-26 | Series B | $290.0M | MUFG, Kanematsu Corporation, Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance | [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/26/sierra-space-raises-290m-at-a-5-3b-valuation/) |
| 2022-01-28 | equity | $30.6M | - | [SEC EDGAR Form D](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1899675/000189967523000001/0001899675-23-000001-index.htm) |
| 2021-11-19 | Series A | $1.41B | General Atlantic, Coatue, Moore Strategic Ventures | [SEC EDGAR Form D](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1899675/000189967521000001/0001899675-21-000001-index.htm) |

- Rounds come from company announcements, regulatory filings and press reports. Amounts, valuations and investors are as reported and may be incomplete or later revised. Not investment advice, and not an offer or solicitation for any security.

## Space Score

- Score 731 of 1000, tier Contender.
- Rank 10 of 93 ranked companies.
- 5 of 8 inputs measured, high confidence, 100% of applicable pillar weight backed by data; measured 2026-10-14 02:10 UTC.
- Scale (38% of this total): 61 of 100; not measured: Headcount, Reported revenue
- Government space demand (25% of this total): 82 of 100
- Capital access (19% of this total): 96 of 100
- Momentum (19% of this total): 63 of 100; not measured: Open-role change (90 days)
- Flight record (20% nominal, dropped): does not apply
- Every input, value and percentile: [breakdown](https://spacenexus.us/rankings/space-score-methodology?company=sierra-space#breakdown)
- The Space Score is a 0 to 1000 snapshot of a space company's size and activity, relative to the other companies we track. It combines size (headcount, market value and revenue, 30%), U.S. federal space contracts (20%), equity raised (15%), momentum (15%) and, for launch companies, orbital launches (20%), so it leans heavily on size. It is descriptive: not a forecast, a rating or investment advice.
- The Space Score ranks companies relative to each other on public data we hold. It describes; it does not rate, forecast or recommend. It is not a credit rating and not investment advice.

## Government contracts (latest)

| Award date | Agency | Title | Value (USD) | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-05-26 | NASA | IMPLEMENTS A SOLUTION FROM THE INITIAL TROUBLESHOOTING OF THE BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN CANISTER (BRIC) LIGHT EMITTING DIODE (LED) (BRIC-LED) CANISTER LIDS. | $43K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC026FA103_8000_80JSC023DA011_8000) |
| 2026-04-29 | DoD | CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT MINIMUM GUARANTEE | $100K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_FA881926FB018_9700_FA881926DB007_9700) |
| 2025-12-18 | NASA | ADVANCED SPACESUIT REGULATOR (ASR) | $9.2M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC026C0002_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2025-06-18 | NASA | BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN CANISTER (BRIC) LIGHT EMITTING DIODE (LED) (BRIC-LED) | $68K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC025FA117_8000_80JSC023DA011_8000) |
| 2025-06-04 | NASA | THE DUAL USE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM S OBJECTIVE IS TO CREATE PARTNERSHIPS WITH U.S. INDUSTRY AND ACADEMIC/NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS THAT COMPLEMENT THE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT INTERESTS OF MSFC… | $60K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_80NSSC25M7065_080) |
| 2025-04-30 | NASA | NEXT SPACE TECHNOLOGIES EXPLORATION PARTNERSHIP-2 APPENDIX R: LUNAR LOGISTICS & MOBILITY STUDIES. GOALS ARE TO SUPPORT MISSION ARCHITECTURE DEFINITIONS FOR HUMAN MISSIONS BEYOND LOW-EARTH ORBIT AS PA… | $4.2M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80HQTR25CA008_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2024-12-05 | NASA | BASELINE REPAIRS FOR ECS S/NS 002 AND 003 ARE REQUIRED AS OUTLINED IN CONTRACT 80JSC023DA011 STATEMENT OF WORK (SOW) SECTION 3.12, ECS BASELINE REPAIR. | $153K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC025FA027_8000_80JSC023DA011_8000) |
| 2024-09-26 | NASA | ENIAC CLOUD THE FIRST SPACE HARDENED MULTI CLOUD EDGE COMPUTING PLATFORM IMPLEMENTATION PARTNERS | $171K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC024FA212_8000_80JSC023DA011_8000) |
| 2024-09-24 | NASA | FLIGHT EXPERIMENTATION FOR PH-07 WILL CONSIST OF THREE (3) SETS OF 4-WEEK EXPERIMENTS, WITH UP TO FOUR (4) WEEKS BETWEEN EACH EXPERIMENT. | $404K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC024FA205_8000_80JSC023DA011_8000) |
| 2024-09-23 | NASA | THE PURPOSE OF THIS EFFORT IS THE DESIGN, MANUFACTURING, AND DEVELOPMENT TESTING FOR LOW LEAKAGE VALVES CONCEPTS USED TO PRIMARILY SERVICE LIQUID HYDROGEN IN-SPACE APPLICATIONS. THESE IN-SPACE APPLIC… | $3.0M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80MSFC24CA018_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2024-09-18 | NASA | SCIENCE VERIFICATION TEST (SVT) FOR PH-08 WILL CONSIST OF 18 WEEKS OF OPERATIONS COMPRISING 2 TEST RUNS. | $166K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC024FA199_8000_80JSC023DA011_8000) |
| 2024-09-04 | NASA | SUPPORT THE REQUIRED SUSTAINING ENGINEERING FOR THE ADVANCED PLANT HABITAT (APH). | $842K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC024FA190_8000_80JSC023DA011_8000) |
| 2023-02-16 | NASA | MASS MEASUREMENT DEVICE SUPPORT FOR VEG 05 AND MOUSE HABITAT UNIT 8 | $17K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC023FA094_8000_80JSC023DA011_8000) |
| 2021-11-09 | NASA | EO14042 DEVELOP PROTOTYPE CARBOTHERMAL OXYGEN PRODUCTION REACTOR OPERATED UNDER SIMULATED LUNAR OPERATING CONDITIONS WITHIN TEMPERATURE CONTROLLED VACUUM CHAMBER ONE THAT CAN EVOLVE INTO A PAYLOAD ON… | $2.3M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80LARC22CA003_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2021-03-24 | NASA | SUSTAINING ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR THE ADVANCED PLANT HABITAT (APH). | $8.3M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC021F0074_8000_80JSC017D0018_8000) |

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## Sources

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- Each funding round's cited source: SEC filings, company announcements and press reports, linked per round
- Federal award records: contract awards

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