Top 11 Space Transportation startups

Updated: Apr 17, 2026
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These startups are providing satellite deployment, cargo delivery to space stations, asteroids, Moon or back to Earth.
1
Impulse Space
Country: USA | Funding: $525M
Impulse Space develops orbital maneuvering vehicles for last-mile cargo delivery.
2
Apex Space
Country: USA | Funding: $522M
Apex manufactures smallsat buses for commercial and government customers.
3
D-Orbit
Country: Italy | Funding: $201.2M
D-Orbit is the first in-space transportation company, providing solutions for moving, precise deployment and removing satellites.
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
Starfish Space
Country: USA | Funding: $174.6M
Starfish Space develops and manufactures autonomous spacecraft that perform satellite servicing missions in orbit. This small, affordable servicing vehicle is capable of extending the lifespan of satellites and disposing them. For example, it can dock with a satellite and use its own fuel to maintain its functionality, perform in-space inspections, relocate satellites into orbit and provide logistics services, repair and upgrade components, perform in-space assembly and manufacturing. The company has developed guidance and control software, binocular computer vision system for navigation, docking device that can be attached to virtually any flat surface.
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
Rocket Factory Augsburg
Country: Germany | Funding: $37.3M
RFA - Rocket Factory Augsburg is a space technologies company offering fast & flexible launch solutions for satellite constellations.
8
Atomos Space
Country: USA | Funding: $21.9M
Atomos Space is an aerospace company building and developing orbital transfer vehicles.
9
Atmos Space Cargo
Country: Germany | Funding: €19.4M
ATMOS Space Cargo develops and manufactures space capsules to return cargo from space, microgravity experiments to entire rocket stages.
10
Argo Space
Country: USA | Funding: $9.9M
Argo Space develops small reusable spacecraft transfer vehicles and the technology for harvesting water from lunar regolith to create an abundant source of in-space propellant
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