Manufacturing & industry
Sierra Lobo
Sierra Lobo is an Ohio aerospace contractor supporting spaceflight hardware development, testing and operations for NASA.
- Spaceflight hardware
- Aerospace engineering
- Spacecraft testing
- Power conversion
- Nuclear electric propulsion
- Space industry
- International space
- Space companies
- Aerospace
- Aerospace manufacturing
- Space components
Sierra Lobo is an aerospace engineering and technical-services company based in Fremont, Ohio. NASA selected the company to support spaceflight hardware design, development, testing and operations at Glenn Research Center. Its own website also describes testing, fabrication and research services for government and commercial aerospace customers.
Milestones
- 20 October 2026
NASA assigned Sierra Lobo the closed Brayton cycle power conversion system for the planned Space Reactor-1 Freedom mission.[3]
Sources
Coverage of Sierra Lobo
Nuclear electric propulsion
NASA assigns SR-1 Freedom power conversion to Sierra Lobo
The newly disclosed work covers a system that turns reactor heat into electricity. NASA still targets a late-2028 launch; the announcement reports no completed flight hardware.
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