Top 10 Space Transportation startups
Updated: May 05, 2024 | Editor: Boris Maslennikov | 17 |
Space transportation startups are developing cutting-edge technologies to provide efficient, cost-effective, and reliable in-space transportation like satellite orbital transfers, fuel and cargo resupply missions and deorbiting.
1
Country: USA | Funding: $152.8M
Momentus is a commercial space company providing satellite buses, in-space transportation, hosted payloads, and in-orbit services.
Momentus is a commercial space company providing satellite buses, in-space transportation, hosted payloads, and in-orbit services.
2
Country: Italy | Funding: €121.3M
D-Orbit is the first in-space transportation company, providing solutions for moving, precise deployment and removing satellites.
D-Orbit is the first in-space transportation company, providing solutions for moving, precise deployment and removing satellites.
3
Country: USA | Funding: $75M
Impulse Space develops orbital maneuvering vehicles for last-mile cargo delivery.
Impulse Space develops orbital maneuvering vehicles for last-mile cargo delivery.
4
Country: Germany | Funding: $37.2M
RFA - Rocket Factory Augsburg is a space technologies company offering fast & flexible launch solutions for satellite constellations.
RFA - Rocket Factory Augsburg is a space technologies company offering fast & flexible launch solutions for satellite constellations.
5
Country: USA | Funding: $31M
Starfish Space develops and manufactures autonomous space vehicles that perform in-orbit, satellite servicing missions.
Starfish Space develops and manufactures autonomous space vehicles that perform in-orbit, satellite servicing missions.
6
Country: USA | Funding: $21.9M
Atomos Space is an aerospace company building and developing orbital transfer vehicles.
Atomos Space is an aerospace company building and developing orbital transfer vehicles.
7
Country: USA | Funding: $10M
Inversion builds space capsules to return cargo back to Earth for the commercial, civil, and defense industries.
Inversion builds space capsules to return cargo back to Earth for the commercial, civil, and defense industries.
8
Country: Germany | Funding: €4M
ATMOS Space Cargo develops and manufactures space capsules to return cargo from space, microgravity experiments to entire rocket stages.
ATMOS Space Cargo develops and manufactures space capsules to return cargo from space, microgravity experiments to entire rocket stages.
9
Country: USA | Funding: $2M
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
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
10
Country: Russia
Orbital Express intends to democratize space logistics from in-orbit satellite services to interplanetary missions for sustainable space exploration that enables new markets In-Space Economy sector.
Orbital Express intends to democratize space logistics from in-orbit satellite services to interplanetary missions for sustainable space exploration that enables new markets In-Space Economy sector.