Deep Space Systems

Deep Space Systems, Inc (DSS) is a private aerospace company that works in systems engineering that helps with the design, development, integration (putting parts together), testing and operations of science and exploration spacecraft.

DSS was founded in 2001 and it is located at Littleton, Colorado, United States.Deep Space Systems, Inc. - Company  profile. Accessed on 13 December 2018 Its Founder and President is Steve Bailey.Deep Space Systems. Eric Peterson, Company Week. 11 November 2018

In June 2020, the company combined with Adcole Corp. to form Redwire.https://www.aeroequity.com/redwire/ Redwire
Summary
The specialties of DSS are systems engineering, spacecraft design, development, integration and testing, deep space mission operations, and high-definition built for space cameras. In 2006, Lockheed Martin won the contract for the Orion spacecraft with the team effort of Deep Space Systems, and in 2009, DSS was named NASA's Johnson Space Center Small Business Subcontractor of the Year, for its work on Orion's avionics (airplanes and rocket electronics) system. While partnership with Lockheed Martin drives the business, Deep Space Systems did more things with the development of satellite-ready cameras.

On 29 November 2018, Deep Space Systems was included in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program (CLPS) by NASA, which makes it able to participate to bid on delivering science and technology payloads to the Moon, worth $2.6 billion in contracts over 10 years.NASA selects nine companies for commercial lunar lander program. Jeff Foust, Space News. 29 November 2018 DSS is now believed 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 commercial lunar rover in 2019 to carry science payloads, in addition of their design and development services to the program.Draft Concepts for Commercial Lunar Landers . NASA, CLPS. Accessed on 12 December 2018 DSS is also working on a lander idea focused on scouting south polar lunar resources.Lunar Resource Prospecting. S. A. Bailey. Abstract presented at the "Lunar ISRU 2019: Developing a New Space Economy Through Lunar Resources and Their Utilization". July 15–17, 2019, Columbia, Maryland

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