Top 7 Deorbiting startups

Oct 06, 2024 | By Boris Maslennikov

1
Country: USA | Funding: $7.1M
Outpost is a space company that provides earth return satellites and orbital payload missions.
2
Country: USA | Funding: $65M
Starfish Space develops and manufactures autonomous space vehicles that perform in-orbit, satellite servicing missions.
3
Country: UK | Funding: $21M
Space Forge make super materials in space that cannot be made on earth.
4
Country: USA | Funding: $7.1M
Outpost is a space company that provides earth return satellites and orbital payload missions.
5
Country: Germany | Funding: €5.3M
ATMOS Space Cargo develops and manufactures space capsules to return cargo from space, microgravity experiments to entire rocket stages.
6
Country: India | Funding: ₹283M
Inspecity is a satellite servicing startup that offers satellite life-enhancing and deorbiting services, positioning itself as the ‘space mechanics’.
7
Country: USA | Funding: $750K
Vestigo Aerospace provides deorbit capability for cubeSats, small satellites, and launch vehicle stages.
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