Top 10 Satellite Maintaining startups

Updated: May 03, 2026
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These startups are developing or operating spacecrafts with robotic systems for repairing, refueling, upgrading and relocating satellites.
1
Infinite Orbits
Country: Singapore | Funding: €54.3M
Infinite Orbits is a satellite servicing company that focuses on satellite maintenance, orbit correction, and de-orbiting services.
2
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.
3
Astroscale
Country: Japan | Funding: $443.4M
Astroscale is developing scalable solutions across the spectrum of on-orbit servicing, including life extension, in situ space situational awareness, end-of-life, and active debris removal, to create sustainable space systems
4
Momentus
Country: USA | Funding: $182.1M
Momentus is a commercial space company providing satellite buses, in-space transportation, hosted payloads, and in-orbit services.
5
Exotrail
Country: France | Funding: $75.4M
Exotrail provides orbital services for small satellites, including "last mile" delivery (from payload integration to final orbit placement), satellite inspection, and end-of-life management. The company also develops flexible and powerful electric propulsion systems for satellites based on Hall-effect technology. In Exotrail's ion engine electrons emitted by the cathode are captured by a magnetic field and used to ionize the propellant, creating plasma in the discharge channel. The plasma is then accelerated to generate thrust by the electric field created between the anode and cathode. Hall-effect thrusters have been in use for decades and are installed on most large satellites. They combine the high impulse of an electric propulsion system with a very high thrust-to-power ratio.
6
Inversion Space
Country: USA | Funding: $54.1M
Inversion builds space capsules to return cargo back to Earth for the commercial, civil, and defense industries.
7
ClearSpace
Country: Switzerland | Funding: $37M
ClearSpace provides services for maintenance and removal of malfunctioning satellites and other space debris from the Earth orbit. The company (in partnership with the European Space Agency) is preparing the ClearSpace-1 mission to demonstrate the ability to remove the inoperative PROBA-1 satellite from low-Earth orbit. For this it's developing the "Claw" grappling system, which includes a robotic arm for the dexterous manipulation and capture of fragile space objects and control algorithms that enable fully autonomous grappling sequences. Another mission, CLEAR (Clearing the LEO Environment with Active Removal), in partnership with the UK Space Agency, aims to remove two UK-registered defunct satellites from low-Earth orbit. The company is also developing its own space service, Geo Life Extension, to extend the life of satellites by restoring their functionality using semi-autonomous spacecraft.
8
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’.
9
Kurs Orbital
Country: Ukraine | Funding: $4M
Kurs Orbital enables satellite life extension and space debris removal missions, securing safe and sustainable orbits for generations.
10
Katalyst Space Technologies
Country: USA | Funding: $880.6K
Katalyst Space Technologies revolutionizes satellite operations, space logistics, hardware, and mission design.
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