Sierra Space and partners to build Orbital Reef

LOUISVILLE — Louisville’s Sierra Space Corp., a division of Sierra Nevada Corp., and Kent, Washington-based Blue Origin are teaming up to build Orbital Reef, a commercially developed, owned, and operated space station to be built in low Earth orbit. 

Sierra Space, known for its in-development Dream Chaser space plane, and Jeff Bezos-owned, reusable rocket engine builder Blue Origin LLC are supported in their project by Boeing, Redwire Space, Genesis Engineering Solutions and Arizona State University, according to a press statement.