NASA has signed liquid helium contracts with industrial gas majors Messer and Linde, as well as Airgas, an Air Liquide company.
Worth around $105.1m, the three contracts will see each industrial gas firm collectively supply around 2.6 million litres of liquid helium and 90.6 million standard cubic feet of gaseous helium.
The product will be distributed to multiple NASA centres across the US.
Each of the contracts will run until September 2027, with three one-year option periods that could extend the supply to 2030.
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