Astrobotic wins $17.5M in NASA and military contracts to develop three reusable suborbital vehicles

The awards total $17.5M from both NASA and military sources, showing explicit government funding for reusable suborbital vehicle development and a civil–defense partnership.

The contracts add to a growing roster of government-backed reusable flight efforts, alongside recent work on a reusable reentry vehicle and agency funding for reusable upper‑stage demonstrators (reusable reentry vehicle work, reusable upper‑stage award).

Development programs like this expand opportunities for ground‑operations, robotics and propulsion suppliers, echoing recent moves such as the planned ground‑support robot for a reusable rocket demonstrator and fresh propulsion funding rounds (ground‑support robot, propulsion funding round).