Space Tech Startups

VAKE builds a space-powered maritime situational awareness platform that detects, identifies, and tracks vessels—including "dark" vessels—using integrated multi-sensor satellite data. It serves maritime and defense/security users needing faster decision-making, delivered via a platform or API.

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Vantor provides spatial intelligence and geospatial data services, operating an imaging satellite constellation to deliver high-resolution satellite imagery and real-time intelligence to defense, intelligence, and commercial sectors. The company anchors all spatial data to a unified "ground truth" foundation to enable integrated analysis across multiple sensor types and autonomous decision-making.

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Vaya Space develops hybrid propulsion systems, centered on its patented Vortex-Hybrid engine that uses recycled plastic (HDPE) fuel grains, for defense and space applications. It runs active programs with the US Army, US Air Force, DARPA, and industry primes, and manufactures engines in-house in Cocoa, Florida.

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Applied Aerospace manufactures advanced complex systems for aerospace, defense, and space customers. The company operates a nationwide infrastructure of purpose-built facilities serving technology innovators in these sectors.

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Viasat provides residential satellite internet service, offering broadband plans with tiered high-speed data for home customers. It operates as a satellite communications and internet service provider.

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Virgin Galactic operates suborbital spaceflights, offering astronaut journeys for private passengers as well as access for scientists and researchers to conduct experiments in suborbital space. It positions itself as a provider of human spaceflight and a suborbital space lab for research.

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VORAGO Technologies designs radiation-hardened and radiation-tolerant Arm Cortex-based microcontrollers and microprocessors using its HARDSIL process technology to protect chips in extreme environments. Its high-reliability semiconductor components serve space, satellite, aerospace, defense, and industrial applications such as subsurface drilling and autonomous vehicles.

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vRotors develops a software-as-a-service platform that enables users to remotely operate cameras and robotic devices to provide immersive presence and multi-sensory experiences at distant locations. The platform combines AI, robotics, and cloud infrastructure to create an alternative to physical travel and traditional video streaming.

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Wardstone designs and plans to deploy a constellation of satellites equipped with sensors and kinetic interceptors to detect, predict, and counter hypersonic and ballistic missiles for U.S. military defense agencies. The system, called the Golden Dome, is intended to provide global missile defense capabilities across multiple domains of conflict for the Space Force, Air Force, Navy, and Missile Defense Agency.

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Waterfly develops Wing-in-Ground craft for marine transportation, aiming to move cargo at speeds comparable to aircraft at costs closer to shipping. It positions the technology as an alternative to air freight for faster, lower-cost transport.

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Wave Engine Corp. develops jet engines based on wave engine technology that operate without moving parts, aiming for affordability and scalability. The company builds propulsion products and related services for the aviation industry.

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Wave Motion is developing large-scale kinetic energy transmission technology for space, aimed at launching vehicles with minimal onboard propellant, enabling orbital energy exchange, and point-to-point logistics. Its applications also include in-orbit maneuverability and directed energy systems.

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WindShape develops modular wind-generation technology (the WindShaper) used for aerodynamic and engineering testing to help customers bring innovations to market. It operates as an engineering hardware company serving clients' testing and R&D needs.

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WingXpand provides AI-powered drone technology with detection filters designed for defense, agriculture, disaster response, and inspection applications. The company emphasizes affordability and scalability of advanced drone capabilities.

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World from Space provides satellite data analytics, turning space-derived data into applications for agriculture, the NewSpace sector, and other fields.

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XDLINX Space Labs designs and builds software-defined small satellite platforms with hosted payloads, including ready-to-launch satellites and sovereign ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance) missions. Founded in 2022 and based in Hyderabad, India, the company develops cost-effective micro-satellite platforms such as its Janus-1 6U satellite.

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Xoople builds a data infrastructure layer that delivers continuous, time-series Earth surface measurements in open, machine-readable formats to fuel analytics and AI foundation models. It serves enterprise and government users—such as transportation departments and engineering and construction firms—that need real-time knowledge of physical-world changes for decision-making and risk monitoring.

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XTI Aerospace develops and distributes unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and vertical mobility platforms, including the TriFan 600 VTOL aircraft, for enterprise, government, and defense customers in the U.S. Its operations include drone distribution (via its Drone Nerds acquisition), the DarkStar Labs engineering division, and the Hangar X Studios media arm.

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Xylene provides a Digital Product Passport platform that traces and verifies product information across the supply chain from raw materials to disposal, using satellite data and blockchain notarization. It serves companies in sectors such as coffee, fashion, and diamonds to prove authenticity, sustainability, and ethical sourcing to their customers.

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Zaitra develops AI-based onboard data processing solutions for optical Earth Observation satellite missions, including cloud screening and object detection. Its flagship product SKAISEN helps space missions reduce costs and bandwidth by prioritizing valuable data onboard, targeting satellite operators and space missions.

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Zeno Power Systems develops nuclear batteries that provide power in remote or extreme environments where traditional energy sources are inaccessible, such as subsea and space applications. The company serves defense, space, and maritime sectors requiring long-duration, reliable power solutions.

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Zephalto develops stratospheric balloon flights to carry passengers to near-space, working in partnership with the French space agency CNES for its balloon technology. The company positions itself in the space tourism and travel sector with a focus on low-pollution flights.

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Zero-Error Systems (ZES) designs radiation-hardened and radiation-tolerant semiconductors, including power management ICs, system-on-modules, and voter/EDAC components, to protect commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) electronics in space and radiation-affected environments. It also provides IP licensing, radiation-hardened-by-design services, and irradiation, laser, and heavy-ion diagnostic testing for space electronics applications.

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WorkerInSpace develops versatile robotic spacecraft (VEROS) for on-orbit servicing (OOS) and in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing (ISAM), offering satellite life extension, refueling, repair, deorbiting, and debris removal. It targets satellite operators and national space asset protection needs.

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