50 Best Space Travel Companies to Watch in 2026

The most prominent space travel companies ranked by global prominence, funding activity, and market position. Showing the top 50 out of 1,272 companies tracked on Fsome.

1,272
Total Companies
$60.2B
Total Funding
$47.3M
Avg Funding
Los Angeles
Top Location
# Company Location Employees Total Funding Last Round Last Funded
1
Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab is an aerospace company that provides launch services, spacecraft des…
Long Beach 1K - 5K $2.0B Post Ipo Equity 2026-04-08
2
Voyager Technologies
Voyager Technologies is a defense and space technology company that develops sol…
Denver 501 - 1K $818.2M Post Ipo Debt 2025-11-05
3
K2 Space
K2 Space develops high-power satellite platforms for orbital missions, using ver…
Torrance 101 - 250 $425.5M Series C 2025-12-11
4
Starcloud
Starcloud is building a network of large data centers in space.
Redmond 1 - 10 $23.9M Seed 2025-02-26
5
Axiom Space
Axiom Space is a space infrastructure company that develops commercial human spa…
Houston 501 - 1K $850.0M Debt Financing 2026-02-12
6
Redwire
Redwire focuses on space commercialization, digitally engineered spacecraft, on-…
Jacksonville 1K - 5K $454.0M Grant 2026-03-11
7
MDA Space
MDA Space is a space technology company that develops geointelligence, space ope…
Brampton 1K - 5K $183.0M Post Ipo Debt 2025-12-04
8
Digantara
Digantara develops infrastructure and data solutions for monitoring objects and …
Bengaluru 101 - 250 $64.4M Series B 2025-12-16
9
Stoke Space
Stoke Space develops fully reusable Nova rockets for orbital space mobility.
Kent 251 - 500 $1.4B Series D 2025-10-08
10
Open Cosmos
Open Cosmos is a space technology company that designs, builds, and operates low…
Harwell 101 - 250 $62.6M Series B 2023-09-11
11
Karman Space & Defense
Karman Space & Defense offers production solutions for hypersonics, spacecraft, …
Huntington Beach 1K - 5K $1.5B Post Ipo Debt 2025-10-24
12
Interstellar Technologies
Interstellar Technologies is an aerospace company that develops cost-effective a…
Hiroo 101 - 250 $245.2M Debt Financing 2026-01-16
13
CesiumAstro
CesiumAstro provides out-of-the-box communication systems for satellites, UAVs, …
Austin 101 - 250 $655.2M Series C 2026-02-02
14
TakeMe2Space
TakeMe2Space a startup focused on democratizing access to space and advancing sp…
Hyderabad 1 - 10 $5.6M Seed 2026-01-08
15
Vast
Vast develops commercial space stations and plans crewed missions with SpaceX, s…
Long Beach 501 - 1K $650.0M Debt Financing 2026-03-05
16
Ursa Major
Ursa Major is an aerospace and defense company that provides a propulsion system…
Berthoud 251 - 500 $434.7M Debt Financing 2025-11-18
17
Epsilon3
Epsilon3 is the OS for spacecraft and complex operations.
Los Angeles 11 - 50 $18.8M Series A 2022-06-20
18
Momentus
Momentus is a commercial space company providing satellite buses, in-space trans…
Santa Clara 51 - 100 $182.1M Post Ipo Equity 2026-04-14
19
Gilmour Space Technologies
Gilmour Space Technologies is a space rocket company that develops low-cost hybr…
Pimpama 101 - 250 $322.5M Series E 2026-01-20
20
Astroscale
Astroscale is a technology company focuses end-of-life solutions and space susta…
Sumida 251 - 500 $443.4M Series Unknown 2024-03-01
21
Intuitive Machines
Intuitive Machines is a space exploration company that provides infrastructure a…
Houston 251 - 500 $619.5M Post Ipo Equity 2026-02-25
22
Sierra Space
Sierra Space is a commercial space company that specializes in the development o…
Louisville 1K - 5K $2.2B Series C 2026-03-05
23
Dhruva Space
Dhruva Space is a private space company developing small satellite systems to of…
Bengaluru 51 - 100 $22.3M Grant 2026-02-11
24
EtherealX
EtherealX designs, develops, and manufactures next-generation launch vehicles an…
Bangalore 11 - 50 $25.5M Undisclosed 2026-03-25
25
Turion Space
Turion Space designs, builds, and operates DROID satellites to address pressing …
Irvine 51 - 100 $27.8M Series Unknown 2025-12-03
26
Impulse Space
Impulse Space develops in-space transportation technology for payload delivery t…
Redondo Beach 251 - 500 $525.0M Series C 2025-06-03
27
Skyroot Aerospace
Skyroot Aerospace is an aerospace manufacturer and launch service provider devel…
Hyderabad 251 - 500 $105.7M Debt Financing 2026-03-25
28
SpaceX
SpaceX is an aviation and aerospace company that designs, manufactures, and laun…
Hawthorne c 10001 max $11.8B Secondary Market 2025-12-12
29
The Exploration Company
The Exploration Company develops, manufactures and operates modular and reusable…
Munich 251 - 500 $209.9M Series B 2024-11-17
30
Scout Space
Scout is developing orbital products and services to enable a new era of space s…
Reston 11 - 50 $1.6M Grant 2025-09-17
31
Starfish Space
Starfish Space develops and manufactures autonomous space vehicles that perform …
Tukwila 51 - 100 $63.0M Series B 2026-04-07
32
BQP
BQP is enabling real-time Digital Twin with quantum algorithms for mission-criti…
Syracuse 11 - 50 $9.6M Seed 2025-07-17
33
Interlune
Interlune is a space material extraction company that extracts and commercialize…
Estes Park 11 - 50 $23.1M Grant 2025-09-02
34
Orbion Space Technology
Orbion Space Technology develops and manufactures plasma propulsion systems for …
Houghton 11 - 50 $56.8M Series Unknown 2025-12-19
35
Isar Aerospace
Isar Aerospace builds and operates launch vehicles for transporting small and me…
Munich 251 - 500 $615.5M Convertible Note 2025-06-25
36
Atomos Space
Atomos Space is an aerospace company building and developing orbital transfer ve…
Denver 11 - 50 $22.8M Series Unknown 2023-03-28
37
Agile Space Industries
Agile Space Industries is an aviation and aerospace that specializes in propulsi…
Durango 51 - 100 $39.7M Series Unknown 2026-01-02
38
Loft Orbital
Loft Orbital leases space on satellites for any organization to collect informat…
San Francisco 251 - 500 $326.2M Debt Financing 2025-09-01
39
AstroForge
AstroForge is an asteroid mining company that extracts gold and other minerals f…
Huntington Beach 11 - 50 $55.8M Series Unknown 2025-10-24
40
Cosmoserve Space
Cosmoserve Space is developing autonomous robotic spacecraft to mitigate the rap…
Hyderabad 11 - 50 $3.8M Seed 2026-01-22
41
Antaris
Antaris is a digital space platform that simplifies the design, simulation, and …
Los Altos 11 - 50 $35.7M Series A 2026-03-31
42
Solestial
Solestial exists to deliver abundant energy in space.
Tempe 11 - 50 $30.1M Series A 2025-05-15
43
Virgin Galactic
Virgin Galactic is a commercial spaceline that develops commercial spacecrafts.
Mojave 501 - 1K $1.6B Post Ipo Equity 2025-12-09
44
Aule Space
Aule Space is an on-orbit servicing company developing autonomous satellites cap…
Bengaluru 1 - 10 $2.0M Pre Seed 2026-01-14
45
Ispace Technologies
Ispace Technologies is a space resource exploration company that locates, extrac…
Tokyo 251 - 500 $174.8M Series C 2021-10-25
46
Sisir Radar
Sisir Radar is a space and defense technology startup specializing in advanced S…
Kolkata 11 - 50 $8.5M Series A 2025-12-15
47
Inversion
Inversion builds space capsules to return cargo back to Earth for the commercial…
Los Angeles 51 - 100 $54.1M Series A 2024-11-20
48
GalaxEye
GalaxEye enables businesses to make better Decisions & perform operations effici…
Chennai 51 - 100 $18.4M Series A 2026-03-12
49
Auriga Space
Next-generation electromagnetic propulsion for hypersonics, space and defense
Los Angeles 11 - 50 $9.6M Seed 2025-01-01
50
Space DOTS
The Intelligence Core to detect and attribute hidden threats in space
London 1 - 10 $5.1M Seed 2025-08-19