The space startup class of 2020
10 companies in the directory were founded in 2020, across in-space manufacturing, space resources & mining, software and more, with $349.2M in disclosed funding between them. With hindsight: 10 still active.
Orbital manufacturing
Mining near-Earth asteroids for water to refuel the in-space economy
Edge computing in space
Very-low-Earth-orbit satellites capturing 10 cm optical and thermal imagery
FLEX lunar rovers moving cargo and crew equipment across the Moon's surface
Surface temperature monitoring
InterluneHarvesting helium-3 from lunar soil for quantum computing and fusion customers
Direct access to smart space capital
Droid spacecraft for space domain awareness imagery and future debris removal
Internet constellation
Other years: 2010 · 2012 · 2013 · 2014 · 2015 · 2016 · 2017 · 2018 · 2019 · 2021 · 2022
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