The space startup class of 2018
31 companies in the directory were founded in 2018, across launch, debris removal & servicing, defense & space domain awareness and more, with $425.5M in disclosed funding between them. With hindsight: 22 still active, 1 outgrew the startup label entirely, 5 didn't make it.
India's first private rocket to orbit
Satellite servicing with Otter
Tracking satellites and debris from orbit
Semiconductors made in orbit
3D cubesat models powered by AI
High accuracy space surveillance and tracking
Reusable horizontal space vehicles
Software for aerospace manufacturing
Galactic EnergyChina's most-flown private rocket
Mass-producing broadband satellites
Geely's satellite constellation for connected cars
Shielding technology for modern spacecraft
Producing resources from lunar soil
Space services marketplace
Paraffin-fuelled hybrid rockets
Interstellar LabPlant habitats for space and Earth
Spectrum, Europe’s private orbital rocket
Space medicine technology
ISRU technology for solar panels
Education about Mars
Agile electric propulsion
Satellite collision avoidance software
Gas stations in space
Computing and analytics in space
Small rockets, automotive-style production
Fighting wildfires with intelligence
Space OneJapan’s solid-fuel rocket venture
Shielding for satellite electronics
The StriX SAR constellation
Time tagging for satellites
Analogue missions
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