| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Aerospace |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Founder | Stephen Bailey |
| Fate | Active |
| Headquarters | , US |
Key people | Stephen Bailey (President and CEO) Michelle Bailey (CFO) Karl Lauffer (Vice President) |
| Products | Systems engineering, space cameras,lunar rover |
Number of employees | ≈100 (2018[1]) |
| Parent | Redwire Space, Inc. |
| Website | deepspacesystems |
Deep Space Systems, Inc (DSS) is a privateaerospace company dedicated to systems engineering that supports the design, development, integration, testing and operations of science and explorationspacecraft.
DSS was incorporated in 2001 and it is based atLittleton, Colorado, United States.[2] Its Founder and President is Steve Bailey.[3]
In June 2020, the company merged withAdcole Corp. to formRedwire.[4][5]
The specialties of DSS aresystems engineering,spacecraft design, development, integration and testing, deep space mission operations, and high-definition space-qualified cameras. In 2006,Lockheed Martin won the contract for theOrion spacecraft with the collaboration of Deep Space Systems,[3] and in 2009, DSS was named NASA's Johnson Space Center Small Business Subcontractor of the Year, for its work on Orion'savionics system.[3] While collaboration with Lockheed Martin drives the business, Deep Space Systems diversified with the development of satellite-ready cameras.
On 29 November 2018, Deep Space Systems was included in theCommercial Lunar Payload Services program (CLPS) byNASA, which makes it eligible to bid on delivering science and technology payloads to theMoon, worth $2.6 billion in contracts over 10 years.[6][7] DSS is now considered a "main contractor" for NASA's CLPS program, and DSS can sub-contract projects to other companies of their choice. According to NASA, Deep Space Systems will be proposing a small commerciallunar rover in 2019 to carry science payloads, in addition of their design and development services to the program.[8] DSS is also working on a lander concept focused on scoutingsouth polarlunar resources.[9]
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