Top 8 Deorbiting startups

Updated: Jul 21, 2025
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These startups are delivering space debris, spacecraft or rocket parts, scientific experiment results or manufactured products from space to Earth.
1
Starfish Space
Country: USA | Funding: $65M
Starfish Space develops and manufactures autonomous space vehicles that perform in-orbit, satellite servicing missions.
2
Inversion Space
Country: USA | Funding: $54.1M
Inversion builds space capsules to return cargo back to Earth for the commercial, civil, and defense industries.
3
Space Forge
Country: UK | Funding: $51M
Space Forge make super materials in space that cannot be made on earth.
4
Outpost
Country: USA | Funding: $32.5M
Outpost is a space company that provides earth return satellites and orbital payload missions.
5
Outpost Space
Country: USA | Funding: $32.5M
Outpost is a space company that provides earth return satellites and orbital payload missions.
6
Atmos Space Cargo
Country: Germany | Funding: €19.4M
ATMOS Space Cargo develops and manufactures space capsules to return cargo from space, microgravity experiments to entire rocket stages.
7
InspeCity
Country: India | Funding: $12M
Inspecity is a satellite servicing startup that offers satellite life-enhancing and deorbiting services, positioning itself as the ‘space mechanics’.
8
Vestigo Aerospace
Country: USA | Funding: $750K
Vestigo Aerospace provides deorbit capability for cubeSats, small satellites, and launch vehicle stages.
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Boris Maslennikov
Editor: Boris Maslennikov
Boris Maslennikov is a senior editor for Space-Startups. He has spent more than a decade covering the global space industry as a business journalist. He earned a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree with honors in geophysics and planetary science from the California Institute of Technology. In his free time, Boris enjoys studying history and mathematics, with a particular interest in the history of mathematics. You can contact Boris at borismaslenikov(at)space-startups(dot)com