A vibrant commercial space economy supports the development of maturing, nascent, or conceptual technologies and technical domains, while affording U.S. government organizations more choice in the marketplace—in line with national policy to buy, adapt, and adopt commercial products and services, when appropriate, to meet national mission requirements.

The Aerospace Corporation (Aerospace) is a leading architect for U.S. government space programs, and a trusted partner for the U.S. commercial space industry, helping to solve the hardest technical challenges in order to accelerate the rapid delivery of new capabilities to space.