Commercial Space & New Space

Agile Engineering for a Rapidly Moving Commercial Space Sector

Commercial space companies move fast and push bold ideas forward. Merrick supports these innovators with an engineering approach grounded in agility, technical rigor, and cross-industry experience. Our teams deliver infrastructure and equipment design for commercial launch providers, spacecraft processing facilities, and emerging re-entry and on-orbit manufacturing operations.

Merrick’s advantage comes from expertise built in adjacent markets that are now converging with commercial space. We apply biohazard facility design to the safe handling of materials returned from orbit. We leverage nuclear power and propulsion knowledge to concepts for future spaceport infrastructure. And we bring unmatched experience from designing NASA’s Mars Sample Receiving Facility, a first-of-its-kind BSL-4 environment that protects both samples and Earth.

Why Merrick

• Experience supporting launch pad infrastructure and ground support systems for commercial providers
• Design of spacecraft processing facilities for confidential clients
• Cross-sector insight from biotech, life sciences, and nuclear engineering
• Proven capability shown through NASA’s Mars Sample Receiving Facility