Top 7 Space Station startups

Updated: April 18, 2024 | Editor: Boris Maslennikov

Space station startups are developing innovative technologies and business models to create commercial space habitats, research laboratories, and manufacturing facilities in Earth's orbit.
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Country: USA | Funding: $1.7B
Sierra Space is a commercial space company that specializes in the development of advanced space technologies and solutions. Sierra is also developing a reusable vehicle called Dream Chaser, with the aim of using it to deliver cargo and crew to and from its station.
2
Country: USA | Funding: $177.8M
Voyager Space is an aviation and aerospace company that specializes in the space exploration industry.
3
Country: USA
Vast is a pioneer in space habitation technologies focused on expanding humanity across the solar system.
4
Country: USA | Funding: $20M
Gravitics is an aerospace company that designs and manufactures large space structures for human life in space.
5
Country: USA | Funding: $2.3M
Above: Space Development Corporation develops and operates gravity-capable space stations on-orbit, in cislunar space, and throughout the solar system; enabling humanity to work, play, and thrive in the space ecosystem.
6
Country: USA
Max Space is creating expandable habitats for people and storage that are low-cost, have more livable room, and easier to get up into space.
7
Country: France
OneSpace Technologies is focused on humans-in-space and onto otherwirlds.
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