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ILC Dover, an Ingersoll Rand Business, is a pioneering company in the development and manufacturing of soft goods for space exploration, including spacesuits, inflatable space habitats, and landing airbags.

We are also a leader in technical expertise for defense solutions providing a mix of highly technical soft goods for harsh environments and logistical expertise for tethered aerostats, passenger airships, high-altitude airships, and heavy lift structures for a variety of government customers.

Explore Our Aerospace & Defense Solutions

Spacesuits

Discover our Launch Entry & Abort (LEA) and Extravehicular Activity (EVA) spacesuits.

Space Habitats

Discover our standard-setting inflatable habitats, airlocks and shelters for Earth orbit and planetary exploration.

Spacecraft Landing Systems

Discover our world-leading space landing systems, including Impact Bags.

Lighter-Than-Air & Defense Solutions

Discover our multitude of lighter than air blimp and aerostats programs for tethered aerostats, passenger airships, high-altitude airships and heavy lift structures.

Specialty Coatings

Discover our custom thin film design and process development.

The Leader in Spacesuit Technology

Combining innovation with a storied past, we measure our success by those we’ve returned to Earth safely over 50+ years of space travel. With each mission, ILC Dover discovers more, does more and innovates the functionality, efficiency and safety of our aerospace products and programs.

250+ Space Flights

6 Moon Landings

3,000+ Hours of Spacewalks

We’re Going Back to the Moon and onto Mars

Commercial spaceflight is opening the universe to all of humanity. Explore our variety of softgoods that will protect the explorers who will bravely travel beyond Earth.

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ILC Dover Among Industry Team Selected to Provide the Next Generation of Spacesuits for NASA

Collins Aerospace, ILC Dover and Oceaneering to provide NASA with new spacesuit designed by astronauts for astronauts.

Sierra Space and ILC Dover Partner to Build the Infrastructure in Space that will Accelerate the Commercialization of Low-Earth Orbit and Outfit the Astronaut Workforce of the Future

The partnership will accelerate the installation of high-volume LIFE™ (Large Integrated Flexible Environment) inflatable modules for the Sierra Space platform.

ILC Dover is proud to be a member of the Dynetics, Inc. team for the Artemis Human Landing System (HLS)

ILC Dover is proud to be a member of the Dynetics, Inc. team for the Artemis Human Landing System (HLS) | ILC Dover

Historic LIFE™ Habitat Burst Test Marks a Significant Milestone Toward Sustainable Human Space Habitation

ILC Dover's inflatable habitat structure successfully passes the first ever full scale Ultimate Burst Pressure test

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