Cargo Transportation & LandersLanders and re-entry vehicles

Launching a Fast Space Future through Lean Rocket Science. We 3D print thrusters and propulsion systems for space vehicles.

The Peregrine Lander precisely and safely delivers payloads to lunar orbit and the lunar surface on each mission.

We believe exciting things happen when we combine our diverse disciplines to imagine and create new solutions.

Firefly Aerospace is committed to providing economical and convenient access to space for small payloads through the design, manufacture and operation of reliable launch vehicles.

Rocket engine design and manufacturing company. Developing a variant of rocket engine codenamed ICEALOX that can make use of lunar natural resources for refueling on the lunar surface, in cis-lunar space, or in Earth orbit. A technology demonstration mission featuring lunar surface refueling is being planned by our firm and our partners for late 2025.

A Chinese startup is aiming to developing spacecraft capable of supplying China’s space station, with a first small demonstration launch set for 2022.

Payload sizes start at 21.5 kg for the smallest ISS deployed version.

Reentry capsule to bring cargo from space back to Earth. 

Lunar robotic exploration company that is developing micro-robotic technology to provide a low-cost and frequent transportation service to and from Moon.

Built Beresheet lander for non-profit organization SpaceIL.

Small re-entry capsule to return payloads from ISS. HTV and HTV-X resupply ships.

We’re making space transportation sustainable.

McCandless Lunar Lander can transport up to 350 kg of cargo to the surface of the Moon and provide up to 400 W of power to operate there.

XL-1, is a small, single-use lander capable of placing a 100-kg payload on the lunar surface.

1.5 m long, 60 cm in diameter, and had an unloaded mass of about 350 kg. Could return about 150 kg. Used about 10 times.

Redefine possible by returning to the Moon and unlocking its mysteries and resources for the benefit of humanity.

NASA awarded $125.6 million to develop designs of space stations and other commercial destinations in space. 

Obayashi pursues the potential for the future of the space elevator from a construction standpoint, and describes a newly-designed, whole-space elevator system, including its construction process

Plans to launch a commercial lunar lander mission in cooperation with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) in late 2022 as it looks for government and commercial customers.

Cislunar transportation company providing global customers with reliable, repeated and affordable services to the lunar surface.

Deliver satellites to space and bring them home again. 

Bringing down the cost of exploration and building reusable space infrastructures so more people benefit from access to space.

Team LASER is developing a system to return small lunar samples. The system is considering multiple return methods, including direct return, aerobraking return, and rendezvous with a LEO spacecraft.

Single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane.

ARGO reusable transport spacecraft for the delivery of payload to the Space station and its return to the Earth.

SAB is working to a project called IOSHEXA (In Orbit Servicing HEXA).

Small payload recovery. MOA signed in 2015 to use ISS.

ASTREO capsule and internal SNC Dream Chaser Module for Landing Space Resources.

SpaceDev, the world's first commercial space exploration and development company, intends to launch the first privately financed spacecraft to land on another planetary body. SpaceDev is selling rides for scientific instruments to governments and companies to transport their instruments and experiments through deep space to a near Earth asteroid. SpaceDev intends to sell the data acquired by its instruments as commercial products.

Non-profit organization aiming to land the first Israeli spacecraft on the Moon.

Recoverable RED-4U and RED-25 will offer payload compartments for safe return of space-based manufacturing, medical, and pharmaceutical products. NASA Phase III SBIR awarded in 2016.

Dragon is a free-flying spacecraft designed to deliver both cargo and people to orbiting destinations.

With in-house and SBIR funding for small business, STAR has developed new concepts space elevators for the Moon. 

Participated in NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS), and later, Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) programs for delivering cargo and crew to the International Space Station. 

First private company granted permission by the U.S. government to explore, photograph, and land on the Moon.

Concept for a commercial lunar lander.