NASA has selected Plug Power, Inc., of Slingerlands, New York, and Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., of Allentown, Pennsylvania, to supply up to approximately 16 760 t (36 952 000 lbs) of liquid hydrogen for use at facilities across the agency.
The NASA Agency-wide Supply of Liquid Hydrogen awards are firm-fixed-price requirements contracts that include multiple firm-fixed-price delivery orders critical for the agency’s centres as they use liquid hydrogen, combined with liquid oxygen, as fuel in cryogenic rocket engines, and the commodity’s unique properties support the development of aeronautics. The total value for the combined awards is about US$147.2 million.
The contracts begin 1 December 2025, and each consists of a two-year base period followed by three one-year option periods that, if exercised, would extend the contracts to 30 November 2030.
Air Products and Chemicals Inc. will supply up to about 316 560 t of liquid hydrogen to NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida; NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Centre in Huntsville, Alabama; and NASA’s Stennis Space Centre in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, for a maximum contract value of approximately US$144.4 million.
Plug Power Inc. will deliver up to approximately 220 t of the commodity to NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, and at Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio, for a maximum contract value of about US$2.8 million.