{"id":196361,"date":"2025-10-02T04:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/196361\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T04:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:33:08","slug":"exlabs-wins-space-force-contract-for-reconfigurable-space-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/196361\/","title":{"rendered":"ExLabs wins Space Force contract for reconfigurable space platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY, Australia \u2013 The U.S. Space Force has awarded a $1.9 million contract to Southern California startups ExLabs for development of its reconfigurable spacecraft platform.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Direct-to-Phase 2 Small Business Innovation Research contract from the Space Force Space Systems Command, ExLabs will develop SERVSAM, \u201ca heavy-class, reconfigurable spacecraft designed for flexible mission profiles in all orbital regimes,\u201d according to the ExLabs news release. SERVSAM, built on ExLabs\u2019 modular <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/exlabs-plans-mission-to-rendezvous-with-asteroid-apophis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Space Exploration and Resource Vehicle<\/a> (SERV) architecture, \u201cwill serve as a foundation for a range of future capabilities that align with national security space priorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Space Systems Command award \u201ccontinues the steady development of our primary platform,\u201d Schmidgall told SpaceNews by email. \u201cWe now have over $22\u00a0million in combined contracts advancing the same core capability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re developing adaptable infrastructure designed to meet the evolving demands of space operations,\u201d ExLabs CEO Matthew Schmidgall said in a statement. \u201cAs mission tempo increases, dual-use commercial platforms will be key to maintaining strategic advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ExLabs plans to deploy spacecraft in low-Earth and deep space in 2027, Schmidgall said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/author\/debra-werner\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/debra_werner-150x150.jpg\" class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDebra Werner is a correspondent for SpaceNews based in San Francisco.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nDebra earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in communications from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master\u2019s degree in Journalism from Northwestern University. She is a recipient&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/author\/debra-werner\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Debra Werner\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SYDNEY, Australia \u2013 The U.S. Space Force has awarded a $1.9 million contract to Southern California startups ExLabs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[113676,79,722,193,11716],"class_list":["post-196361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-exlabs","tag-science","tag-sn","tag-space","tag-space-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}