09:05 AM EST, 03/04/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Redwire ( RDW ) said Tuesday that its Belgian subsidiary Redwire Space was awarded a contract by the European Space Agency to conceptualize a spacecraft that could travel to Mars.

Financial terms were not disclosed.

The aerospace company said the contract was one of four studies commissioned to define the parameters for such a spacecraft as part of the space agency's LightShip initiative.