Andrews Space is a small aerospace company based in Seattle, Washington, founded in 1999 to develop space systems. Andrews provides aerospace

Aerospace

Aerospace comprises the atmosphere of Earth and surrounding space. Typically the term is used to refer to the industry that researches, designs, manufactures, operates, and maintains vehicles moving through air and space...

 services for commercial, civil, and military clients.

Current projects

• Rocketplane Kistler K-1
  K-1 Vehicle
  The Kistler K-1 launch vehicle was to be a two-stage, fully reusable aerospace vehicle in commercial development by Rocketplane Kistler. It was designed to accommodate a wide range of missions, including payload delivery to low-earth orbit , payload delivery to high-energy orbits with a K-1 Active...
  
   reusable space vehicle
• Air Collection and Enrichment System(ACES) - Proposes to generate Liquid Oxygen fuel in flight from the atmosphere
• Gryphon RLV vehicle HTHL spacecraft
• MicroX Microsatellite
• NASA's Cislunar Flight Experiment
• Andrews Cargo Module
  Andrews Cargo Module
  The Andrews Cargo Module was a proposed design for an unmanned resupply spacecraft which would deliver cargo to the International Space Station . Andrews Space proposed to NASA that spacecraft of this design be used for the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program...
  
   - Unmanned cargo logistics system and candidate for NASA COTS

Future projects

Andrews Space was chosen as one of six finalists for NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services

Commercial Orbital Transportation Services

Commercial Orbital Transportation Services is a NASA program to coordinate the delivery of crew and cargo to the International Space Station by private companies. The program was announced on January 18, 2006...

 (COTS) program, though they were not selected for funding. In November 2010, Andrews Space was selected by NASA for consideration for potential contract awards for heavy lift launch vehicle

Heavy Lift Launch Vehicle

A Heavy Lift Launch Vehicle, or HLLV, is a launch vehicle capable of lifting more mass into Low Earth Orbit than Medium Lift or Mid-Heavy Lift Launch Vehicles.There is no universally accepted capability requirements for heavy-lift launch vehicles....

 system concepts, and propulsion technologies.

See also

• Reusable launch system
  Reusable launch system
  A reusable launch system is a launch system which is capable of launching a launch vehicle into space more than once. This contrasts with expendable launch systems, where each launch vehicle is launched once and then discarded.No true orbital reusable launch system is currently in use. The...
  
  
• Commercial Orbital Transportation Services
  Commercial Orbital Transportation Services
  Commercial Orbital Transportation Services is a NASA program to coordinate the delivery of crew and cargo to the International Space Station by private companies. The program was announced on January 18, 2006...
  
  
• List of private spaceflight companies