Nanoracks

Nanoracks
IndustryAerospace
Founded2009; 15 years ago (2009)
FounderJeffrey Manber
Headquarters
Houston, Texas
,
United States
Number of locations
5 (4 are terrestrial, 1 is lab space on ISS in low-Earth orbit)
Key people
Jeffrey Manber and
Charles Miller
ServicesIn-space services;
Small satellite launch services;
CubeSat launch services;
Microgravity payload integration
Number of employees
More than 100
Websitenanoracks.com

Nanoracks LLC is a private in-space services company[1][2] which builds space hardware and in-space repurposing tools.[3] The company also facilitates experiments and launches of CubeSats to Low Earth Orbit.[4]

Nanoracks's main office is in Houston, Texas. The business development office is in Washington, D.C., and additional offices are located in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Turin, Italy.[6][7] Nanoracks provides tools, hardware and services that allow other companies, organizations and governments to conduct research and other projects in space.[5]

Nanoracks currently helps facilitate science on the International Space Station in multiple ways and built the Bishop Airlock to launch payloads from the International Space Station.

As part of a Series A funding round XO Markets Holdings Inc. was formed as a holding company for NanoRacks, LLC.[6] As of 2021, Nanoracks is the largest subsidiary of X.O. Markets. In 2021 Voyager Space Holdings acquired a majority stake in X.O. Markets.[7]

  1. ^ "Testimony of Mr. Jeffrey Manber before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation" (PDF). 9 April 2014.
  2. ^ Garud-Barna, Sumedha (17 November 2014). "NanoRacks". NASA. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
  3. ^ "Our Vision for Commercial Space Exploration". Nanoracks. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
  4. ^ Clark, Stephen. "Nanoracks experiment poised to demonstrate metal cutting in orbit – Spaceflight Now". Retrieved 19 July 2022.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference forbes20111121 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ https://nanoracks.com/wp-content/uploads/NanoRacks-Release-17-Emerge-and-Others-Join-NanoRacks.pdf
  7. ^ https://www.satellitetoday.com/finance/2021/05/11/voyager-space-closes-acquisition-of-nanoracks-parent-company/