航天器制造商 Sierra Space 表示，该公司首席财务官在任职约六个月后离职，此次人事变动引发了人们对其长期待盼的首次公开募股（IPO）时间安排的质疑。
Space Corp.’s chief financial officer has left the company after about six months in the role, the spacecraft maker said, in a shake-up that raises questions about the timing of its long-awaited initial public offering.
公司代表称，Jeff Schrader 决定追求新的职业机会。该代表在发给彭博社的电子邮件声明中表示，Sierra Space 暂无更多信息可分享有关公司未来融资计划的内容。
A representative from the company said that Jeff Schrader has decided to pursue a new professional opportunity. Sierra Space doesn’t have more information to share regarding the company’s future financing plans, the person said in an emailed statement to Bloomberg.
Sierra Space 在 3 月份曾被估值为 80 亿美元，并曾谈及其计划在 2024 年上市，但公司一直面临领导层频繁更迭以及其旗舰太空飞机 Dream Chaser 交付延迟的问题，该飞机原本计划为 NASA 运送货物至国际空间站。
Sierra Space, valued at $8 billion dollars in March, talked about its intention to go public in 2024, but has faced a slew of leadership changes and delays to its signature spaceplane Dream Chaser, originally intended to ferry cargo to the International Space Station for NASA.
公司顶级财务主管的最新离职进一步加剧了外界对其公开市场首秀时间表的疑虑。
The fresh departure of the company’s top financial executive raises more questions about the company’s timeline for debuting on the public markets.
2 月 26 日，Sierra Space 宣布任命 Dan Jablonsky 为新任首席执行官；3 月，公司作为转向争取有利可图的国家安全合同的一部分，融资 5.5 亿美元。
On Feb. 26, Sierra Space announced that it had appointed a new chief executive officer, Dan Jablonsky, and in March, the company raised $550 million as part of a pivot toward chasing lucrative national security contracts.
上个月，Sierra Space 宣布任命 Warren Jenson 为新任董事会成员，他曾担任亚马逊、达美航空和 NBC 等公司的首席财务官。
Last month, Sierra Space announced the appointment of new board member Warren Jenson, who has served as CFO of firms including Amazon, Delta Air Lines and NBC.
Sierra Space 得到土耳其亿万富翁夫妇 Fatih 和 Eren Ozmen 的支持，公司最初是 2021 年从 Sierra Nevada Corp. 分拆出来的。Sierra Space 原计划在 2021 年首次发射 Dream Chaser，但如今将首次发射时间推迟至 2026 年底。
Sierra Space, backed by Turkish billionaire couple Fatih and Eren Ozmen, began as a spinoff from Sierra Nevada Corp. in 2021. Sierra Space planned to debut Dream Chaser in 2021, but is now targeting late 2026 for its first launch.
2025 年 9 月，NASA 与 Sierra Space 宣布正在修改一份 2016 年签订的合同，届时航天局将不再被要求使用该飞船执行相关任务。
In September 2025, NASA and Sierra Space announced they were modifying a 2016 contract so the space agency would no longer be required to use the craft to do so.
Sierra Space 同时致力于建造一个可充气的空间站，该空间站有望成为国际空间站（ISS）在 2030 年计划脱轨后的商业继任者。
Sierra Space is separately working to build an inflatable space station that could serve as a commercial successor to the ISS, which is set to de-orbit in 2030.