Top 16 Space Manufacturing startups

Updated: Apr 23, 2026
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These startups enable in-orbit 3D printing, microgravity material development, satellite component assembly, space-based pharmaceutical research, advanced semiconductor production, etc.
1
Redwire
Country: USA | Funding: $450M
Redwire focuses on space commercialization, digitally engineered spacecraft, on-orbit service, assembly, and manufacturing. Redwire is a key mission enabler with products relevant to almost every space mission, including: power generation, antennas, deployable solutions, star trackers, and camera systems.
2
Varda Space
Country: USA | Funding: $328M
Varda is a space manufacturing startup that focuses on creating products and drugs in space for terrestrial applications.
3
Space Forge
Country: UK | Funding: $51M
Space Forge allows to produce super materials in space that are impossible to create on Earth. In particular it'is using space-derived crystal seeds to grow ultra-high quality semiconductor substrates. It's operating own world-first reusable, returnable orbital manufacturing platform (ForgeStar) and provides microgravity-as-a-service for manufacturing on low Earth orbit. The space environment offers a unique set of environmental conditions that are hugely beneficial for certain processes: vacuum, lower ambient pressure, weightlessness, near-zero temperatures. Rapid, reliable and returnable vehicle to harness the space environment for your needs. The company has also developed return system thatl brings precious cargo back to Earth gently, with no shock on landing in an innovative vehicle with a precision engineered capture and recovery system.
4
Catalyx Space
Country: India | Funding: $7.2M
Catalyx Space offers the quickest and most affordable way to deploy experiments and produce in orbit, as easily as launching an app on AWS. Its self-operating space labs and reusable capsules take your ideas to space and securely bring them back. For example companies and governments can use these space labs to observe climate change, track wildlife migrations, test new technologies directly from orbit, perform experiments that gravity on Earth prevents, create novel medicines, create advanced materials, discover innovations in biotech, run AI and data processing in space for instant results. Catalyx Space manages all the infrastructure: satellites, launches, communications, payload returns. Idea to orbit in promised under 6 months.
5
CisLunar Industries
Country: USA | Funding: $4.8M
CisLunar Industries is developing the technology to process metal in space. Its recycling technology takes recovered space debris and reprocesses it into standardized metal feedstock in the form of rod, wire filament, and other useful geometries, as well as propellant.
6
ThinkOrbital
Country: USA | Funding: $4M
ThinkOrbital delivers a large, scalable and cost-efficient platform for single-launch, autonomous assembly in-orbit, re-imagining opportunities for satellite servicing, space debris processing, in-space manufacturing, on-orbit storage, refuelling, space tourism and research.
7
Rendezvous Robotics
Country: USA | Funding: $3M
Rendezvous Robotics constructs space infrastructure. The company is commercializing a technology called “tesserae,” flat-packed modular tiles that can launch in dense stacks and magnetically latch to form structures on obit.
8
Orbital Matter
Country: Poland | Funding: €2.2M
Orbital Matter is a construction company in space that works on a 3D printing technology to be used directly in orbit and on the moon.
9
In Orbit Aerospace
Country: USA | Funding: $2M
In Orbit Aerospace is building the infrastructure to support mass manufacturing in space.
10
Orbital Composites
Country: USA | Funding: $2M
Orbital Composites specializes in the fields of 3D printing, Composites, robotics automation, and carbon fiber.
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