New Space Companies

A

• ABL Space Systems: Develops low-cost launch vehicles for small satellites.
• AERKOMM: An innovative satellite technology company providing carrier-neutral and software-defined infrastructure for multi-orbit, end-to-end satellite broadband connectivity.
• Aerospacelab: Builds high-resolution Earth observation satellites.
• Aethero: Develops radiation-hardened edge computers for on-orbit data processing and autonomous decision-making, enabling spacecraft to efficiently process data and operate autonomously.
• Argo Space: Develops advanced satellite propulsion systems, including high-performance electric propulsion and green monopropellant thrusters, enabling efficient and sustainable satellite maneuvers and orbit maintenance for a wide range of missions and applications.
• Array Labs: Develops advanced software solutions for satellite operations and data processing, leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to optimize mission performance, automate data analysis, and extract valuable insights from Earth observation data.
• AST SpaceMobile (ASTS): Building a space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by standard mobile phones.
• Astranis Space Technologies: Provides high-speed internet connectivity via small geostationary satellites.
• Astrolab: Develops advanced space robotics and autonomous systems for lunar and planetary exploration, including the Flexible Logistics and Exploration (FLEX) rover, designed to support a wide range of payloads and missions on the Moon and beyond.
• Astrobotic: Provides end-to-end lunar delivery services, including payload integration, transportation, and operations on the Moon’s surface, using their advanced lander and rover technologies.
• Astroscale: Focuses on orbital debris removal and satellite servicing.
• Atomos Space: Develops orbital transfer vehicles and satellite servicing technologies.
• Axiom Space: Builds commercial space stations and provides human spaceflight services.

B

• Benchmark Space Systems: Provides advanced propulsion solutions for small satellites, including high-performance green propellant thrusters and scalable electric propulsion systems.
• Beyond Gravity: Provides satellite and rocket components, structures, and subsystems.
• Blackwave: Develops lightweight, affordable, and readily available carbon fiber high-pressure tanks and structures for launch vehicles, satellites, and other space-related applications.
• BlackSky: Offers global monitoring services using its constellation of Earth observation satellites.
• BlueHalo: BlueHalo specializes in advanced defense and national security technologies, focusing on space operations, electronic warfare, and AI. Their solutions enhance military and civilian security against emerging threats.
• Blue Origin: Develops reusable launch vehicles and crewed spacecraft for suborbital and orbital flights.
• Bright Ascension: Provides software products and services for satellite and payload control.

C

• Care Weather: Provides advanced weather forecasting and monitoring services using data from a proprietary constellation of small satellites, enabling high-resolution, real-time weather data.
• Capella Space: Operates a constellation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites for Earth observation.
• Cesium Astro: Develops advanced active phased array antenna systems for satellite communications, enabling high-speed, secure, and reliable connectivity for a wide range of applications, including Earth observation, mobile communications, and defense.
• Clear Space Today: Clear Space Today develops In-Orbit Services (IOS) to bring maintenance capabilities to orbit, creating a market opportunity founded on the principles of sustainability.

D

• DCUBED: Builds space hardware and subsystems, using patented Shape Memory technology and proprietary Origami structures that outperform traditional solutions in weight, size, cost, durability, reusability, and availability.
• D-Orbit: Provides in-orbit transportation and satellite deployment services.
• Danti AI: Software that simplifies the process of finding the right Earth observation imagery and analytic reports, enabling users to easily access and leverage previously inaccessible data specific to their needs.
• Dawn Aerospace: Develops reusable spaceplane technology for suborbital and orbital launches.

E

• E-Space: E-Space is developing novel satellite and terminal technology to provide Essential and Smart-IoT capabilities from basic messaging services up to voice, video and data for specialized applications.
• Enpulsion: Develops and manufactures advanced electric propulsion systems for small satellites, offering high-performance, scalable, and cost-effective ion thrusters that enable precise orbital maneuvers and extend mission lifetimes.
• Epsilon3: Provides a web-based platform for managing complex aerospace operations and procedures, streamlining collaboration, documentation, and compliance processes for space missions, vehicle assembly, and testing.
• Evolution Space: Developing advanced propulsion technologies for spacecraft, including high-performance green propellant thrusters and electric propulsion systems.
• ExLabs: Develops technologies to capture and redirect Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs) into stable orbits, enabling access to essential space resources and creating supply chain links to support long-term space exploration and sustainability.
• Exolaunch: Provides launch services, mission management, and deployment solutions for small satellites.
• Exotrail: Offers electric propulsion solutions and satellite deployment systems.

F

• Firefly Aerospace: Develops launch vehicles for small to medium-sized payloads.

G

• GITAI: Develops advanced robotic systems for space operations, focusing on teleoperated and autonomous robots capable of performing a wide range of tasks, such as assembly, maintenance, and exploration, to reduce the cost and risk of human spaceflight and enable sustainable space infrastructure development.
• GomSpace: Develops and manufactures advanced nanosatellites and microsatellites for a wide range of applications, including Earth observation, communications, and scientific research.
• Gravitics: Develops lightweight, modular space station components and habitats using advanced materials and manufacturing techniques.
• Gravity Lab: Provides programmable gravity solutions for research and manufacturing in space, enabling advanced experiments and production processes in microgravity environments.
• Ground Control: Provides satellite and cellular technology solutions for connecting hard-to-reach people and things, offering custom-engineered devices and a subscription-based platform for remote data transfer and management.

H

• HawkEye 360: Uses a constellation of satellites to provide radio frequency (RF) mapping and analytics.
• Helicity Space: Developing the Helicity Drive, a scalable fusion propulsion engine that enables safer, faster, and more fuel-efficient deep space travel.
• HEO: Provides space situational awareness and satellite inspection services using a constellation of high-resolution imaging satellites, enabling satellite operators to monitor the health, status, and performance of their assets in orbit and detect potential anomalies or threats.
• HyBird Space Systems: Focused on transforming space access with innovative propulsion technologies.
• HyImpulse: Develops advanced hybrid rocket engines and small launch vehicles for the commercial space industry, offering cost-effective and environmentally friendly solutions for satellite deployment and suborbital missions.
• Hypersonix Launch Systems: Develops hypersonic launch vehicles and scramjet engines.

I

• ICEYE: Operates a constellation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites that provide high-resolution Earth observation data, enabling all-weather, day-and-night monitoring for applications such as natural disaster response, maritime surveillance, and infrastructure monitoring.
• Impulse Space: Provides in-space transportation and payload delivery services.
• Impulso.space: Offers software solutions for satellite operations and ground segment management.
• Innoflight: Develops high-performance avionics, software, and communications solutions for small satellites and spacecraft, enabling advanced capabilities and reliable operations for a wide range of missions, including Earth observation, science, and exploration.
• In Orbit Aerospace: Building orbital infrastructure for microgravity manufacturing and research, enabling the creation of new and improved products in space and their delivery back to Earth.
• INTEGRASYS: Provides advanced satellite ground segment solutions, including signal monitoring, interference detection, and carrier monitoring systems, ensuring the efficient and reliable operation of satellite communications networks.
• Intuitive Machines: Develops lunar landers and provides payload delivery services to the Moon.
• Inversion Space: Develops autonomous re-entry vehicles for delivering cargo from space to Earth.

K

• K2 Space Corporation: Develops advanced spacecraft components and subsystems, including high-performance power systems, thermal management solutions, and structures.
• KARMAN Space & Defense: Karman Space & Defense provides concept-to-production solutions for mission-critical systems on spacecraft, launch vehicles, missiles, hypersonics, and integrated defense systems.
• Kayhan Space: Delivering next-generation automation to satellite operations and spaceflight safety, providing autonomous safety of flight alerts, notifications, and decision plans directly to satellite operators.
• Kineis: Operates a constellation of IoT nanosatellites for global connectivity.
• Kongsberg NanoAvionics: Manufactures small satellite buses and propulsion systems.
• KP Labs: Develops advanced software solutions for satellite image analysis and processing, leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to extract valuable insights from Earth observation data for various applications, such as environmental monitoring, agriculture, and urban planning.

L

• Launcher: Develops a small launch vehicle and transfer vehicles for satellite deployment.
• LeoStella: Designs and manufactures small satellites for Earth observation and communications.
• Lonestar: Building data centers on the Moon to provide secure data storage, edge processing, and communication services for terrestrial and space-based applications.
• Lunar Outpost: Develops advanced robotic systems and technologies for lunar exploration and resource utilization, including the Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP) rover, designed to locate and extract valuable resources on the Moon’s surface.
• Lumen Orbit: In-orbit cloud computing.

M

• Max Space: Developing a series of expandable space habitat modules using ultra-high-performance vessel technology, enabling larger and more cost-effective habitable volumes compared to traditional alternatives.
• Mbryonics: Satellite Photonics Communications: Lasercom, Intra-sat Comms & Microwave Photonics, Optical Ground Stations, Laser Ranging.
• Momentus: Provides orbital transportation and other in-space services for satellites.
• Monarch Space Systems: Steal mode startup. Develops advanced propulsion systems.
• Muon Space: Designs, builds, and operates LEO satellite constellations delivering Earth intelligence using a revolutionary, integrated technology stack enabling faster time-to-orbit and superior constellation remote sensing performance.
• Mynaric: Develops laser communication technologies for satellite networks and airborne platforms.

N

• New Frontier Aerospace: Startup manufacturing advanced rocket engines to power orbital transfer stages and net carbon-negative hypersonic aircraft for civil, commercial, and defense applications.
• NorthStar Earth & Space: Develops a constellation of satellites for space situational awareness and Earth observation.
• Northwood Space: A satellite technology company focused on redesigning ground infrastructure to support widespread satellite use, aiming to create a scalable, high-throughput communication network between Earth and space, improving global connectivity.
• NovaWurks: Develops innovative spacecraft and satellite solutions using their patented Hyper-Integrated Satlet (HISat) technology, which enables the rapid design, deployment, and reconfiguration of modular, scalable, and adaptable space systems for a wide range of applications, including Earth observation, communications, and exploration.

O

• Odyssey Space Research: Provides advanced engineering services and software solutions for the space industry, focusing on mission-critical systems, autonomous operations, and spacecraft design.
• Orbex: Developing environmentally sustainable launch vehicles for small satellite deployments, using advanced materials and propulsion technologies to reduce the cost and environmental impact of accessing space.
• Orbion Space Technology: Develops advanced plasma propulsion systems for small satellites and spacecraft, offering high-performance, efficient, and cost-effective solutions for orbit raising, station-keeping, and deorbiting.
• Orbital Transports: Offers logistics services and solutions for the space industry, including payload integration, mission management, and supply chain optimization.
• Orbital Sidekick: Develops hyperspectral imaging systems and analytics software for satellite-based monitoring of Earth’s surface, enabling efficient detection and management of environmental issues, such as oil spills, methane leaks, and natural resource depletion.
• Orion Space Solutions: Provides advanced engineering services and solutions for the space industry, specializing in mission design, spacecraft development, and ground system integration.
• OroraTech: Uses satellite data to provide early wildfire detection and monitoring services.
• Outpost: Enabling precise Earth Return of orbital payload missions, focusing on responsible and environmentally conscious space operations.

P

• Phantom Space: Develops reusable rockets and spacecraft for affordable and frequent access to space, targeting small satellite launches and microgravity research missions.
• Pixxel: Building a constellation of hyperspectral imaging satellites to provide global coverage and advanced analytics for various applications, such as agriculture, environmental monitoring, and resource management, enabling data-driven decision making and sustainable practices.
• Planet Labs: Operates a large constellation of Earth imaging satellites for daily global coverage.
• PLD Space: Develops reusable rocket technology for suborbital and orbital launches.

R

• Radian Aerospace: Developing the world’s first reusable single-stage orbital spaceplane, Radian One, capable of carrying cargo and people to low-Earth orbit (LEO) and repeating the trip in as little as 48 hours, aiming to revolutionize space access and transportation.
• RBC Signals: Provides global ground station services for satellite communications.
• Redwire Space: Offers space infrastructure solutions, including 3D printing, robotics, and in-space manufacturing.
• Relativity Space: Builds 3D-printed rockets and launch vehicles using autonomous manufacturing.
• Rivada Space Networks: Plans a constellation of low Earth orbit satellites for secure global connectivity.
• Rocket Factory Augsburg: Develops small launch vehicles using staged combustion engine technology.
• Rocket Lab: The leading vertically integrated small launch provider, spacecraft manufacturer, and space systems supplier, offering end-to-end mission solutions.
• Rogue Space Systems: Specializes in providing cutting-edge and sustainable in-space servicing capabilities.

S

• SAGA: Designs architecture for outer space with a focus on wellbeing, drawing inspiration from the natural environment and human needs from an evolutionary perspective, creating habitats that prioritize comfort, functionality, and sustainability for future space exploration and settlement.
• SatixFy: Develops advanced satellite communication systems, including modems, antennas, and payloads, enabling high-throughput, low-latency, and secure connectivity for various applications.
• SatRev: Provides satellite data analytics and AI-driven solutions for various industries, including agriculture, forestry, and environmental monitoring.
• SatSure: Satellite remote sensing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to create deep tech solutions for global sustainability challenges.
• Scout Space: Provides sensing tools, processing algorithms, and responsive autonomy capabilities for in-space applications, enabling satellite autonomy and decision-making to ensure safe and sustainable space operations.
• SEAKR Engineering: Provides advanced space electronics and avionics solutions for satellites and spacecraft, specializing in high-performance processing, memory, and networking technologies for critical space missions in the commercial, civil, and defense sectors.
• Sidus Space: Provides vertically integrated small satellite solutions, including design, manufacture, launch, and operation services for commercial and government clients.
• Skyrora: Develops orbital launch vehicles and sustainable rocket technology.
• SkyServe: Offers satellite-based internet and IoT services for remote locations.
• Solestial: Provides cost-effective, reliable, and safe solutions to power the new space economy.
• Space Tango: Offers a platform for microgravity research and manufacturing, providing end-to-end services for payloads and experiments on the International Space Station and other orbiting laboratories.
• SpaceTechEuro Ltd: Provides consulting services and innovative solutions for the space industry, focusing on spacecraft design, mission analysis, and technology development, to support the growth and success of space-related businesses and projects.
• SpaceX: Designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft for Earth orbit and beyond.
• SpinLaunch: Develops a kinetic launch system that uses centrifugal force to launch payloads to space.
• Spire Global: Operates a constellation of nanosatellites for Earth observation, maritime, and aviation tracking.
• Starfish Space: Develops autonomous satellite servicing and space debris removal technologies.
• Stoke Space: Develops fully reusable rocket technology for efficient space transportation.
• Synspective: Provides SAR satellite data and analytics for environmental monitoring and disaster response.

T

• Terran Orbital: Designs, builds, and operates small satellites for Earth observation and communications.
• The Spaceport Company: Develops and operates a network of commercial spaceports.
• True Anomaly: Builds satellites and develops solutions at the intersection of spacecraft, software, and AI, leveraging machine learning to enhance space capabilities, access, and sustainability for the U.S., its allies, and commercial partners.

U

• Umbra: Operates a constellation of high-resolution SAR satellites for Earth observation.
• Ursa Major: Develops and manufactures rocket engines for launch vehicles and in-space propulsion.

V

• Varda Space Industries: Focuses on in-space manufacturing and production using microgravity.
• Vast Space: Develops artificial gravity space stations for research and commercial applications.
• Vector Launch: Develops small launch vehicles and satellite platforms for dedicated missions.
• Venus Aerospace: Develops advanced hypersonic aircraft and propulsion systems for high-speed point-to-point transportation.
• Virgin Galactic: Offers suborbital spaceflights for space tourism and research payloads.
• Vyoma: Provides advanced space situational awareness and collision avoidance solutions, leveraging machine learning and computer vision techniques to track and analyze space objects, ensuring the safety and sustainability of satellite operations in an increasingly congested orbital environment.

X

• Xona Space Systems: Develops a next-generation navigation system using a constellation of small satellites, providing high-accuracy and resilient positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) services for various applications, such as autonomous vehicles, precision agriculture, and critical infrastructure.