Commercial Sample Return Hangar

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Gravitics Selected for NASA SBIR Award to Develop Commercial Sample Return Hangar

Gravitics, Inc., an orbital infrastructure company, today announced it has been selected by NASA for a 2026 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I award. The award supports development of the Multiple-Downmass Hangar, a system for affordable and frequent commercial sample return from low Earth orbit. The Multiple-Downmass Hangar is designed to hold multiple return vehicles on a single orbital…