Top 5 Mars Mission startups

Updated: Jan 17, 2026
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1
SpaceX
Country: USA | Funding: $11.8B
SpaceX is an aviation and aerospace company that operates a network of sattelites and designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.
2
Impulse Space
Country: USA | Funding: $525M
Impulse Space develops orbital maneuvering vehicles for last-mile cargo delivery.
3
Moon Express
Country: USA | Funding: $65.5M
Moon Express develops a robotic spacecraft for low cost missions beyond the Earth, including the Moon, asteroids, and Mars.
4
Starpath
Country: USA | Funding: $12M
Starpath Robotics builds spacecraft propellant that reduces the deep space transport cost.
5
Pulsar Fusion
Country: Germany
Pulsar Fusion has designed the first launch-capable, high-power chemical rocket engine fueled by plastic waste. Pulsar is in advanced stages of design of Fusion power station reactor
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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