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Open space opportunities from SAM.gov and recent space contract awards from USAspending.gov, filtered to space work, with email alerts for your searches, agencies and companies. Free to read.
Track every Ignition contract, company, and milestone. The largest NASA procurement initiative since Artemis: $20 billion across 3 phases through 2033.
Opportunities: SAM.gov, last successful fetch Nov 12, 2026, 13:30 UTC; newest notice stored Nov 12, 2026, 13:30 UTC.
Awards: USAspending.gov contract awards made in the last 120 days, swept Nov 12, 2026, 10:20 UTC. DoD reports to USAspending with a 90-day delay, so recent defense awards arrive late.
SBIR/STTR: SBIR/STTR topic data is unavailable: SBIR.gov's public API has refused every request since August 2026 (last checked November 12, 2026), and no topic from it is on record here. We show no count rather than a wrong one. 1 open SBIR/STTR notices posted on SAM.gov are in the opportunities list.
The opportunity feed is limited by SAM.gov's API quota
Our SAM.gov key allows about 10 requests a day until a pending registration raises it to 1,000. We spend 3 a day on space industry codes, so each of the 8 codes is refreshed about every 3 days (8 of 8 refreshed in the last 7 days). A notice posted since its code's last refresh is not here yet; for anything urgent, search SAM.gov directly.
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These are awards as USAspending.gov reports them, days later for civilian agencies and 90 days later for the Department of War. Announced space awards lists them the day the government announces them.
Coverage note: the last sweep stopped before the end of NOAA, DARPA and FAA (space work only) (page limit: the largest 1,000 awards); NASA contract awards (page limit: the largest 1,000 awards). Searches are read largest award first, so what is missing is the smallest awards; earlier sweeps may already hold them.
A curated set of major NASA, Space Force, and ESA contracts and awards: separate from the live SAM.gov feed above and from the real-time USASpending award feed at the Recent Awards tab.
A notice or award is in the watch when at least one rule below accepts it, and each row says which rule did. We never guess from a company's reputation, and a company is linked to an award only by its federal registration number (UEI).
Official descriptions, read from USAspending's reference data on September 25, 2026.
satellite, spacecraft, space vehicle, launch vehicle, space launch, launch services, launch range, orbit, lunar, astronaut, space station, space-based, space domain, space systems, spaceflight, space force, satcom, reentry, gps, star tracker. Bare "space", "launch", "orbit" and "rocket" do not count: in federal buying they usually mean office space, boat launches, orbital sanders and tactical rockets.