Sierra Nevada Corporation

Sierra Nevada Corporation, also styled SNC, is an American aerospace, defense, electronics and manufacturing corporation headquartered in Sparks, Nevada, with additional locations in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and Turkey. It contracts with the US Department of Defense, NASA and private spaceflight companies, and as of October 2020 had participated in over 500 successful space missions, including 14 missions to Mars. In 2021 the corporation created the subsidiary Sierra Space to continue developing the Dream Chaser spaceplane and a commercial space station in partnership with Blue Origin. Sierra Nevada Corporation is a multi-billion-dollar company with over 4,000 employees, and its main business remains contracts with the Department of Defense and NASA.