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Country: New Zealand | Funding: $19.5M
Dawn Aerospace is building a scalable, resilient space transportation network with aviation-like frequency and reliability to seamlessly connect the terrestrial and space economies. The company develops clean, chemically efficient satellite propulsion systems that utilize safe and affordable fuels. The company has already installed over two hundred such propulsion systems on dozens of operational satellites. Dawn is also developing in-space refueling services that allows to extend the life of its customers' satellites. The company is also developing the fastest and highest-altitude airplane ever to take off from a runway, combining the extreme performance of rocket engines with the reusability of conventional aircraft, enabling high-frequency and affordable access to suborbital space.
Dawn Aerospace is building a scalable, resilient space transportation network with aviation-like frequency and reliability to seamlessly connect the terrestrial and space economies. The company develops clean, chemically efficient satellite propulsion systems that utilize safe and affordable fuels. The company has already installed over two hundred such propulsion systems on dozens of operational satellites. Dawn is also developing in-space refueling services that allows to extend the life of its customers' satellites. The company is also developing the fastest and highest-altitude airplane ever to take off from a runway, combining the extreme performance of rocket engines with the reusability of conventional aircraft, enabling high-frequency and affordable access to suborbital space.
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Country: UK | Funding: $1.7B
Virgin Galactic is Richard Branson's company that develops commercial spacecraft and offers suborbital spaceflights to space tourists. Its spacecraft are launched from the air from beneath a carrier aircraft. After launch, the spacecraft travels another hundred kilometers, providing tourists with a weightless experience for several minutes. At the end of the flight, the capsule carrying the tourists descends via parachute. The company has already completed dozens of successful launches. A ticket for a space tourist costs approximately $750,000.
Virgin Galactic is Richard Branson's company that develops commercial spacecraft and offers suborbital spaceflights to space tourists. Its spacecraft are launched from the air from beneath a carrier aircraft. After launch, the spacecraft travels another hundred kilometers, providing tourists with a weightless experience for several minutes. At the end of the flight, the capsule carrying the tourists descends via parachute. The company has already completed dozens of successful launches. A ticket for a space tourist costs approximately $750,000.
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Country: USA | Funding: $2.2B
Sierra Space implements complex space projects, including satellite missions (using its own small, high-performance, and affordable satellites for in-orbit servicing) and space stations. The company also develops new technologies and systems for spacecraft, including solar-powered electrical systems, surface-mount technology to significantly reduce space power supply lead times, hypersonic engines and life support systems. Sierra's most famous product is the reusable Dream Chaser spacecraft, designed to deliver cargo and crew to and from the station. It is the only commercial spaceplane capable of takeoff and landing.
Sierra Space implements complex space projects, including satellite missions (using its own small, high-performance, and affordable satellites for in-orbit servicing) and space stations. The company also develops new technologies and systems for spacecraft, including solar-powered electrical systems, surface-mount technology to significantly reduce space power supply lead times, hypersonic engines and life support systems. Sierra's most famous product is the reusable Dream Chaser spacecraft, designed to deliver cargo and crew to and from the station. It is the only commercial spaceplane capable of takeoff and landing.
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Country: USA | Funding: $27.5M
Radian Aerospace is disrupting the aerospace industry with a next generation aerospace vehicle that is the world’s first fully reusable horizontal takeoff and landing, single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane, delivering people and cargo to low Earth orbit (LEO) and multiple terrestrial destinations with aircraft-like operations.
Radian Aerospace is disrupting the aerospace industry with a next generation aerospace vehicle that is the world’s first fully reusable horizontal takeoff and landing, single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane, delivering people and cargo to low Earth orbit (LEO) and multiple terrestrial destinations with aircraft-like operations.
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Country: Germany
POLARIS Spaceplanes is developing a revolutionary reusable space launch and hypersonic transport system Aurora that operates like an aircraft. Aurora combines aircraft and rocket launcher technologies with a unique vehicle design, and offers a game-changing economic viability as well as opening the door for routine low-cost and safe access to space.
POLARIS Spaceplanes is developing a revolutionary reusable space launch and hypersonic transport system Aurora that operates like an aircraft. Aurora combines aircraft and rocket launcher technologies with a unique vehicle design, and offers a game-changing economic viability as well as opening the door for routine low-cost and safe access to space.
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Country: USA
BlackStar Orbital develops next generation high performance multi role spacecraft designed around a reusable common core spaceplane.
BlackStar Orbital develops next generation high performance multi role spacecraft designed around a reusable common core spaceplane.
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Country: USA
Titans Space manufactures spacecraft, and spaceplanes, and offers access to Low-Earth Orbit missions and astronaut programs.
Titans Space manufactures spacecraft, and spaceplanes, and offers access to Low-Earth Orbit missions and astronaut programs.
