Top 9 Space Mining startups

Updated: April 23, 2024 | Editor: Boris Maslennikov

These startups are leveraging observation satellites to optimize extraction and processing of natural resources on Earth or pioneering the extraction of valuable resources from celestial bodies, ranging from asteroids to the Moon.
1
Country: Japan | Funding: $174.8M
Ispace Technologies is a space resource exploration company that locates, extracts, and delivers lunar ice to customers in cis-lunar space.
2
Country: India | Funding: $71M
Pixxel is building a high-resolution hyperspectral imaging satellite constellation to offer its clients AI-powered insights that discover, solve and predict climate issues in real time.
3
Country: USA | Funding: $15.5M
Interlune is a lunar resource startup that provides resources for a clean and sustainable economy on Earth and in space.
4
Country: Canada | Funding: $12.6M
The highest resolution hyperspectral imagery of Earth from space.
5
Country: USA | Funding: $13M
AstroForge is an asteroid mining company that extracts gold and other minerals from asteroid.
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Country: USA | Funding: $11.6M
Lunasonde is pioneering subsurface imaging while providing a sustainable approach to resource exploration.
7
Country: USA | Funding: $6.9M
TransAstra is a space logistics startup, that solves space debris problem and develops a technology to find, prospect, harvest and use space resources.
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Country: USA | Funding: $4.3M
OffWorld is developing AI-powered rugged robots for heavy industrial jobs in the mining, infrastructure, and space sectors.
9
Country: Poland
Solar System Resources Corporation is a technology startup dealing with the subject of space mining and energy transformation. We strive for a green transformation of the mining industry through the use of space resources. The company designs technologies for the needs of future deep space missions, in particular the exploration and exploration of the Moon's resources, developing unique technological and business solutions enabling the construction of transport and mining infrastructure on the lunar surface.
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