Аннотация: NanoRacks and Jeffrey Manber. The note.
NanoRacks and Jeffrey Manber. The note.
"Moscow. December 3 [2021]. INTERFAX.RU - NASA has signed three agreements with US private companies NanoRacks, Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman to develop space station projects that will replace the International Space Station (ISS) in the future, the US Space Administration said Thursday.
The total amount of funds that NASA will pay for the design of new stations is $ 415.6 million.
"NASA intends to continue the uninterrupted stay of the United States in low Earth orbit through the transition from the use of the International Space Station to other platforms. These payments will stimulate the development of commercial independent space stations by the American private sector, which will be used by both the state and private enterprises," the message of NASA says. " [unofficial translation] [https://www.interfax.ru/world/806332].
We have previously written a number of materials about companies in the space industry.
In connection with the INTERFAX material dated December 3, 2021, our attention was drawn to the NanoRacks company.
The head of NanoRacks is Jeffrey Manber (CEO and Co-Founder of NanoRacks).
There is an interesting interview that Jeffrey Manber gave to Sandra Johnson on August 4, 2015.
The path traveled by Jeffrey Manber is interesting.
As you can see from the interview, he was a writer, published materials in the media on the topic of space exploration.
After that he was invited to participate in adjusting the "cosmic sphere managment" system. Along with NASA, other government agencies appeared in the United States that began to perform important functions in the space field. Before that, NASA was a kind of monopolian body.
Thanks to this change in the control system, the first ("secret") commercial contract with the USSR in the space sector was born. Perhaps NASA would not have approved this contract, but, in this particular case, was managed to get past NASA .
An interesting period is the collaboration of Jeffrey Manber with a well-known organization called Energia.
Readers see several topics here.
Jeffrey Manber participates in the creation of Energia USA [LLC] and participates in the activities of Energia.
An attempt to commercialize and save the MIR station (MirCorp).
Privatization of Energia.
The MIR station, nevertheless, was flooded in ocean. ISS replaced MIR.
According to the interviews, the usefulness of Jeffrey Manber's work was obvious to many influential people. Firstly, a market (a market environment) was creating in the space sphere, and secondly, at that time the United States did not have the opportunity to create a space station. (Accidents occurred during the Space Shuttle program).
As the ISS continued to operate, it became clear that the market environment could be formed on the ISS as well. In 2009, the NanoRacks company was established. This company plays a very important role on the ISS. Perhaps it operates "in parallel" with NASA. NanoRacks provides tools, equipment and services that enable other companies, organizations and governments to conduct research and other projects in space.
In the named interview, there is such a mention: "Manber: (...) When we started NanoRacks, the Station was to be defunded in "15, I think, and deorbited in "17. Then it was extended to 2020; now it"s extended to 2024... "
The media reported on a possible extension of the ISS operation until 2030.
NanoRacks and Jeffrey Manber are hardly mentioned in the Russial media. At the same time, they play an important role in the modern history of space exploration.
December 3, 2021 09:25
Translation from Russian into English: December 3, 2021 10:15
Владимир Владимирович Залесский "NanoRacks и Джеффри Манбер. Заметка".
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