March 25, 2024 – Project Atlas

Launch Vehicles
Payload (kg)	Company	Country	Launch Cost ($M)	Price ($/kg)	Funding ($M)	Launch Class	Orbit Altitude	Tech Type	HQ Location	Description
20,000	Arianespace/Avio	Italy	170	8,500	Public	Medium, Heavy	LEO	Rocket	Colleferro	Vega & Ariane launch vehicles
45,000	Blue Origin	USA	0	0	–	Small, Heavy	LEO	Rocket	Kent, WA	Lowering the cost of access to space with reusable launch vehicles
19,000	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Japan	112.5	5,921	Public	Medium	LEO	Rocket	Tokyo, Tokyo	Launch vehicle manufacturer and launch services provider
8,000	Northrop Grumman	USA	80	10,000	Public	Small, Medium	LEO	Rocket	Falls Church, VA	Designs, manufactures, and operates launch vehicles, propulsion systems, and satellites and related components
300	Rocket Lab	USA	4.9	16,333	257.31	Small	LEO	Rocket	Huntington Beach, CA	The first rocket company and launch site for cubesat payloads in New Zealand
63,800	SpaceX	USA	90	1,411	5784	Heavy, Super Heavy	LEO	Rocket	Hawthorne, CA	SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft
17,800	United Launch Alliance	USA	99	5,562	Joint Venture	Medium, Heavy	LEO	Rocket	Centennial, CO	A joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Boeing, ULA produces the Vulcan, Atlas and Delta Launch Vehicle Families
36	UP Aerospace	USA	0	0	0.72	Small	Suborbital	Rocket	Highlands Ranch, CO	UP Aerospace is a suborbital space launch and flight test service provider
300	iSpace	China	5	16,667	275.00	Small	LEO	Rocket	Beijing	iSpace is a Chinese private space launch company developing the Hyperbola rocket family
500	Virgin Orbit/VOX Space	USA	12	24,000	–	Small	LEO	Plane, Rocket	Long Beach, CA	The small payload orbital launch sister company to Virgin Galactic
204	Astra Space	USA	2.5	12,255	100.00	Small	LEO	Rocket	Alameda, CA	Providing routine launch access to Earth orbit for entrepreneurs and enterprises
1,000	Firefly Aerospace	USA	15	15,000	23.16	Small	LEO	Rocket	Cedar Park, TX	Developing the Firefly Alpha launch vehicle; highest payload performance with the lowest cost per kg to orbit in its vehicle class
1,250	Relativity Space	USA	10	8,000	184.54	Small	LEO	Rocket	Los Angeles, CA	Designing an orbital-class launch vehicle that’s autonomously constructed
0	Strato	Ukraine	0	0	–	Small	Suborbital	Balloon	Kiev	Launching sratospheric balloons for research and promotional purposes
4,000	Landspace	China	0	0	361.30	Small, Medium	LEO	Rocket	Beijing	Commercial launch vehicle manufacturer and space launch provider in China
1,350	ABL Space Systems	USA	12	8,889	49.00	Small	LEO	Rocket	El Segundo, CA	Building rockets to launch small satellites
100	Exos Aerospace	USA	0	0	9.09	Small	Suborbital	Rocket	Caddo Mills, TX	Selling reusable launch vehicles for small, sub-orbital scientific/experimental payloads
200	One Space	China	3.2	16,000	116	Small	LEO	Rocket	Beijing	Building a private 3-stage nanosatellite launch vehicle in China
300	PLD Space	Spain	0	0	18.94	Small	LEO	Rocket	Elche, Alicante	A Euro startup developing tech for suborbital & orbital launch services, dedicated to small payloads and nanosatellites
6,160	Sea Launch/S7	Russia	0	0	–	Medium	GTO	Rocket	–	Integrated launch services for the Zenit Launch Vehicle via a mobile sea platform
100	Interstellar Technologies	Japan	0.44	4,400	0.35	Small	Suborbital	Rocket	Hokkaido	Privately developing rocket engines and suborbital launch vehicles in Japan
773	Launcher	USA	10	12,937	–	Small	LEO	Rocket	New York, NY	A team on a 10-year journey to deliver small satellites to orbit.
200	LinkSpace	China	4.5	22,500	–	Small	LEO	Rocket	Beijing	Developing reusable launch vehicle technology for orbital payloads in China
5,000	Maritime Launch Services	Canada	45	9,000	–	Medium	LEO	Rocket	Halifax, Nova Scotia	Building up Canada’s NewSpace industry as the first private launch provider in Canso, Nova Scotia.
500	OHB/COSMOS International	Germany	0	0	Joint Venture	Small	LEO	Rocket	Bremen	Developing a small launcher for low cost delivery to LEO
220	Orbex	United Kingdom	0	0	39.53	Small	LEO	Rocket	London, England	Launch services for small, micro and nano satellites
63	Perigee Aerospace	South Korea	2	31,746	12.00	Small	LEO	Rocket	Daejeon	Developing Blue Whale 1, a micro launch vehicle
500	Skyrora	United Kingdom	12.6	25,200	4.85	Small	LEO	Rocket	Edinburgh, Scotland	Cost effective small satellite launch services from the United Kingdom
600	Earth to Sky	USA	4.5	7,500	5.25	Small	LEO	Rocket	Huntsville, AL	Providing launch services to LEO at an affordable cost
220	Equatorial Space Systems	Singapore	4.5	20,455	0.19	Small	LEO	Rocket	Singapore	Developing Volanis, a hybrid small-launch vehicle operated from a ocean platform
4,000	Galactic Energy	China	0	14,400	43.00	Small, Medium	LEO	Rocket	–	Developing the Ceres-1 and Pallas-1 launch vehicles
400	Gilmour Space	Australia	0	25,000	17.62	Small	LEO	Rocket	Pimpama, Queensland	Developing the ERIS launch vehicles to provide reliable and cost-effective access to space
5	Green Launch	USA	0	0	0.50	Small	LEO	Other	Edmond, OK	Green Launch is a technology created to revolutionize and expand our access to space
160	Microcosm	USA	4.2	26,250	–	Small	LEO	Rocket	Torrance, CA	Developing the Demi-Sprite Launch System
10	Pipeline2Space (by HyperSciences)	USA	1	100,000	–	Small	LEO	Other	Spokane, WA	Using RAM-accelerators to change the economics of space launch
500	Rocket Crafters	USA	9	18,000	2.00	Small	LEO	Rocket	Cocoa, FL	Developing the STAR3D (Safe, Throttleable, Affordable, Reliable, 3D-Printed) Hybrid Rocket Engines and the Intrepid-1 smallsat launcher
100	Space Darts	Russia	0.1	1,000	15.00	Small	LEO	Rocket	Moscow	Mass production of on-demand launchers for small sats
1,000	Space Transportation (Lingkong Tianxing)	China	0	0	18.00	Small	LEO	Rocket, Spaceplane	Beijing	Launcher manufacturer aimed at developing reusable vehicles for small payloads
0	Space Vector	USA	0	0	–	Small	LEO	Rocket	Chatsworth, CA	Space Vector has launched 37 vehicles to date with program turnaround times as short as 8 months
100	SpinLaunch	USA	0.5	5,000	77.94	Small	LEO	Other	Long Beach, CA	Small satellite space launch via a kinetic launch system
250	Stofiel Aerospace	USA	5	20,000	–	Small	LEO	Balloon, Rocket	St. Louis, MO	Balloon-based small satellite launcher
0	Stratolaunch	USA	0	0	–	–	LEO	Spaceplane	Seattle, WA	Developing Black Ice, a fully reusable space plane initially optimized for cargo launch
1,500	WAGNER Industries	USA	3	2,000	–	Small	LEO	Spaceplane	St Petersburg, FL	WAGNER is a simple, reliable, low-cost launch systems company
0	X-Bow Launch Systems	USA	0	0	–	Small	LEO	Rocket	Huntsville, AL	Dedicated to providing affordable access to orbit for commercial and government payloads
0	0-G Launch	USA	0	25,000	–	Small	LEO	Plane, Rocket	Washington, D.C.	Developing the Space Jet air-launch platform
25	Acrux Aerospace Technologies	Brazil	1	40,000	0.05	Small	LEO	Rocket	Iguassu Falls, Paraná	Designing the Montenegro nanolauncher for launches at a very competitive price
25,000	Advanced Rockets Corp	USA	4.1	164	0.07	Heavy	LEO	Rocket	Los Angeles, CA	The Dynamics Enhanced Launch Vehicle is designed for a life of over 400 reuses with very minimal maintenance and rapid turnarounds
40	ALTAIR (Onera)	France	0	0	–	Small	LEO	Plane, Rocket	–	Air launch space transportation using an automated aircraft and an innovative rocket
100	ARCA Space Corporation	USA	1	10,000	–	Small	LEO	Rocket	Las Cruces, NM	Single Stage to Orbit (SSTO) rocket leveraging aerospike engine technology launching to low earth orbit
10	Bagaveev	USA	0.25	25,000	0.96	Small	LEO	Rocket	Half Moon Bay, CA	Dedicated nanosatellite launch provider
150	Bellatrix Aerospace	India	2	13,333	3.00	Small	LEO	Rocket	Bangalore, Karnataka	Orbital launch vehicles (rockets) and electric propulsion systems
30	Beyond Earth	USA	0.9	30,000	–	Small	LEO	Rocket	Menlo Park, CA	Providing rapid response small satellite launch vehicles for government and commercial customers
50	bluShift Aerospace	USA	0	0	–	Small	LEO	Rocket	Brunswick, ME	Cleaner, cheaper, hybrid launch vehicles for cubesats.
30	C6 Launch Systems	Canada	0	0	–	Small	LEO	Rocket	Toronto, Ontario	Provding dedicated launch services for cube and nanosatellites
4,500	Deep Blue Aerospace	China	0	0	3.00	Small, Medium	LEO	Rocket	Beijing	Committed to reducing the cost of entering space via reusable launch products
80	Hudson Space Systems	USA	760,000.000	9,500	0.10	Small	Suborbital	Rocket	Hoboken, NJ	Developing a next generation of reusable launch vehicles for microgravity research
1,500	iRocket	USA	0	0	–	Small	LEO	Rocket	New Hyde Park, NY	Building the first fully autonomous, and fully reusable small launch vehicle for affordable access to space
150	Laros	Russia	3	20,000	–	Small	LEO	Rocket	Moscow	Developing the LAROS-RC2 orbital carrier and accompanying mobile launch infrastructure
150	Pangea Aerospace	Spain	4.54	30,267	1.10	Small	LEO	Rocket	Barcelona, Catalonia	Enabling Low cost access to space with the Aerospike engined reusable Small satellite launch vehicle “MESO”
31	Phoenix Launch Systems	USA	0.75	34,000	0.50	Small	LEO	Rocket	Las Vegas, NV	Developing responsive launch services and products for the nanosatellite industry
150	Reaction Dynamics	Canada	0	30,000	1.15	Small	LEO	Rocket	St. Laurent, Quebec	Making it affordable for companies and universities to launch small satellites into orbit
2,600	Ripple Aerospace	Norway	0	0	–	Medium	LEO	Rocket	Kristiansand	Bringing back the “sea-launch” concept with full-force!
300	RocketStar	USA	6	20,000	–	Small	LEO	Rocket	New York, NY	We offer rideshare and dedicated launch opportunities at severe discounts to other launch providers, and can go from first conversation to launch in 18 months or less
0	SpaceRyde	Canada	0	0	0.15	Small	LEO	Balloon, Rocket	Toronto, Ontario	SpaceRyde offers affordable, on-schedule, dedicated launch for small sats
0	Thor Launch Systems (by 8 Rivers)	USA	0	0	–	–	LEO	Other	Durham, NC	Enabling the mass commercialization of space by moving beyond chemical rockets
100	Agnikul Cosmos	India	1.2	12,000	3.58	Small	LEO	Rocket	Chennai, Tamil Nadu	Designing, manufacturing, and launching orbital-class launch vehicles
150	B2Space	United Kingdom	0	0	–	Small	LEO	Balloon, Rocket	Bristol, England	Developing a balloon-launched vehicle for smallsat payloads
500	Black Arrow Space Technologies	United Kingdom	10	20,000	0.10	Small	LEO	Rocket	Swindon, England	Developing a unique seaborne launch system
16	Celestia Aerospace	Spain	0.2	12,500	–	Small	LEO	Plane, Rocket	Barcelona, Catalonia	Personalized engineering support and dedicated airborne orbital launch platform
5	CubeCab	USA	0.25	50,000	–	Small	LEO	Rocket	Mountain View, CA	LEO launch provider for 3U cubesats
0	Firehawk Aerospace	USA	0	0	–	Small	–	Rocket	Indialantic, FL	Developing Firehawk-1, a two-stage small satellite launcher
200	Fore Dynamics	USA	0	0	–	Small	LEO	Rocket	Placentia, CA	Affordable and reliable small satellite launch system for LEO, SSO, and GEO missions
500	HyImpulse	Germany	0	0	–	Small	LEO	Rocket	Kocher, Baden-Württemberg	We are developing a mini launcher using disruptive technologies to provide low-cost small-sat launch opportunities for Europe and the whole world.
500	INNOSPACE	South Korea	12.5	25,000	1.50	Small	LEO	Rocket	Sejong City	Developing hybrid small satellite launch vehicles
150	LIA Aerospace	Argentina	0	25,000	–	Small	LEO	Rocket	–	Creating the small-sat launch vehicle of the future
180	Lin Industrial	Russia	0	60,000	0.15	Small	LEO	Rocket	Moscow	A Russian startup, developing small satellite launch vehicles
0	LongShot	USA	0	0	–	Small	LEO	Other	–	Developing a non-traditional hypervelocity launch system
500	New Rocket Technologies	Russia	9	18,000	–	Small	LEO	Rocket	Moscow	Building light, two-stage rockets for small satellite launch
500	Orbital Access	United Kingdom	0	0	–	Small	LEO	Spaceplane	Prestwick, Scotland	Global air-launch services for small payloads
1,150	POLARIS	Germany	0	0	–	Small	LEO	Spaceplane	–	Developing a novel, reusable hypersonic and space launch system
160	S-Motor	China	0	0	–	Small	LEO	Rocket	Beijing	Developing a three-stage solid-propellant launch vehicle
10	Space Ops	Australia	0	0	–	Small	LEO	Rocket	Redfern, New South Wales	Developing a reusable two-stage orbital-class launch vehicle
1,200	SpaceHorizon	Canada	0	0	–	Small	LEO	Rocket	Ottawa, Ontario	Striving to design, build, and launch rockets, in and from Canada
70	Venture Orbital Systems	France	0	0	–	Small	LEO	Rocket	Paris	Developing a reactive, reliable and cost-efficient nano-launcher
500	Vogue Aerospace	USA	2	4,000	0.10	Small	LEO	Rocket	Naples, FL	Developing a unique launch vehicle and propulsion system
45,360	Wave Motion Launch	USA	0	0	–	Heavy	LEO	Other	Seattle, WA	Building a space launch system for sending hardened satellites and bulk cargo into space
0	AvalonSpace	United Kingdom	0	0	–	–	–	Rocket	Bristol, England	Vertically launching low-cost orbital payloads from the UK
50	CubeSat Solutions	Thailand	0	0	–	Small	Suborbital	Rocket	Chiang Mai	Designer of low-weight, low-cost satellites and small launching vehicles
0	Fenix Space	USA	0	0	–	–	LEO	Plane, Rocket	San Bernardino, CA	Developing a reliable tow-glider launch system
50	Jarmyn Enterprise Space	Australia	0	0	–	Small	LEO	Rocket	Mawson Lakes, South Australia	Building a single-stage to orbit launch system dedicated to small payloads
0	JiuZhou YunJian	China	0	0	0.43	–	–	Rocket	Beijing	Manufacturing of launch vehicles, rocket engines, spacecraft, and ancillary equipment
1,000	Marcom	South Africa	8	8,000	–	Small	LEO	Rocket	Johannesburg	Developing the Cheetah small launch vehicle
0	New Ascent	USA	0	0	0.11	–	–	Other	Annapolis, MD	Redefining launch from the ground up
0	OmSpace Rocket and Exploration	India	0	0	–	Small	LEO	Rocket	Bharuch, Gujarat	Building a reusable small launch vehicle
250	Project S3	Croatia	0	0	–	Small	–	Spaceplane	Zagreb	Aiming to provide orbital launches of small satellites for the most affordable prices
3,000	Rocketplane Global	USA	0	0	–	Medium	LEO	Spaceplane	Green Bay, WI	Spaceplane based satellite launch
100	Rocketsan	Turkey	0	0	–	Small	LEO	Rocket	Ankara	Rocketsan is developing a micro-satellite launch system for the Turkish government
20,000	Seres Space Exploration Technology	China	0	0	–	Heavy	LEO	Rocket	Beijing	Developing a reusable launch vehicle named ‘Tianmeng’
20,000	ShipInSpace	United Kingdom	0	2,000	–	Heavy	LEO	Rocket	Witney, England	Working on a very low-cost Launcher to LEO
100	Smallspark Space Systems	United Kingdom	0	12,692	–	Small	LEO	Rocket	Cardiff, Wales	Developing vertical launch systems to provide the ability for the United Kingdom to effectively, reliably and affordably deliver satellites into orbit from the planned major UK vertical launch spaceports
0	Spaceborne	Uzbekistan	0	0	–	–	LEO	Rocket	Tashkent	Building low cost, single stage and highly reusable launch vehicles
240	SpaceTrek	China	0	0	–	Small	LEO	Rocket	Beijing	Customized launch services for sub-orbital and orbital payloads
200	Deywoss One	USA	0	0	–	Small	LEO	Spaceplane	Merepoint, ME	Developing PROTEUS, an innovative hybrid and autonomous launcher for small sats
0	Halo Aerospace	USA	0	0	–	–	Suborbital	Balloon, Rocket	West Palm Beach, FL	Providing launch services via HABs and sounding rockets
680	LEO Launcher	USA	0	0	–	Small	LEO	Plane, Rocket	Houston, TX	Long range heavy lift aircraft horizontal launches
0	Space One	Luxembourg	0	0	–	–	LEO	Other	Luxembourg	Developing electromagnetic launch systems to change how we launch payloads into space
0	The Rocket & Satellite Company	Pakistan	0	0	–	–	LEO	Rocket	Karachi	Offering low-cost space launch systems
500	United Frontiers	USA	0	2,000	–	Small	LEO	Rocket	Port Canaveral, FL	SpaceBox is a suborbital launch and recovery platform designed to enable affordable access to space for educational, professional, consumer and hobbyist payloads

Paris Space Week 2021	Paris – France	03/2021	Tailor-made cyberalloys
IRAS Additive Manufacturing Workshop	Virtual	05/07/2021	Additive Manufacturing of Components for Rocket Propulsion
TMS 2022 conference	Anaheim – USA	03/2022	Development framework advancing state-of-the-art for space propulsion components.
ESA-ESTEC ICAM22	Noordwijk – ESTEC – The Netherlands	03/2022	Computational materials design framework for refractory complex concentrated alloys advancing space propulsion components.
1st ESA Int. conference on advanced manufacturing for air, space, and land transportation	Virtual	11/03/2022	Metal Additive Manufacturing of Space Components @ DLR
Plansee seminar	Plansee – Austria	05/2022	Development of materials design framework for refractory complex concentrated alloys advancing space propulsion components

12th EASN International Conference on Innovation in Aviation and Space for opening New Horizons

Barcelona – Spain

10/2022

Special session dedicated to ATLAS

·Sara Bagherifard, Mario Guagliano; Advanced Design of High-Entropy Based Materials for Space Propulsion (ATLAS), an introduction.

·Fuyao Yan; An Integrated Computational Materials Engineering approach to advance AM refractory complex concentrated alloys for ultra-high temperature applications.

·Marcello Lepore (UoD contribution); A multi-physics procedure to identify critical zone of failure in space thrusters.

·Sara Bagherifard, M. Guagliano; Analyzing the effect of feedstock properties in cold spray technology.

·Jan Haubrich, Joachim Gussone, Fuyao Yan, Ida Berglund, Andreas Stark, Norbert Schell, Guillermo Requena; Laser powder bed fusion of refractory complex concentrated alloys for space propulsion components

Graphene Week 2022	Munich – Germany	05-09/09/2022	Discussion with stakeholders about the materials’ challenges in the space sector for propulsion and navigation control
DLR materials colloquium	Cologne – Germany	06/12/2022	·Development framework for the design of novel alloys in space propulsion systems ·Ti-based alloys and refractory complex concentrated alloys for additive manufacturing
15th European Space Conference	Brussels	25/01/2023	Presentation of the ATLAS projects and results
EPIC Workshop	Naples + Virtual	09-12/05/2023	Discussion about the contribution that ATLAS could have in the propulsion sector
Graphene Week 2023	Gothenburg – Sweden	04-08/09/2023	The importance of high-entropy alloys in the space sector – discussion with stakeholders – Airbus, Leonardo
DLR materials colloquium	Cologne, Germany	12/2023	Integrated computational materials engineering and its digital transformation
Keynote lecture at European Space Agency – materials science working group	Noordwijk – ESTEC – The Netherlands	18/01/2024	The importance of materials for aerospace and the role of high-entropy alloys – Discussion with the group and ESA officers
The Fourth International Conference on Damage Mechanics	Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA,	May 15 – 18, 2023	Ultimate and low cycle fatigue predictions of a space thruster built with a new refractory high entropy alloy
X International Conference of Computational Methods for Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering	Chania, Crete, Greece	5-7 June 2023	Thermo-mechanical structural optimization of a chemical propulsion satellite thruster using lattice structures

DEVELOPING THE HYPERSONIC CAPABILITY

Symposium to celebrate the 100th. of the Italian Air Force

Naples / Pozzuoli

09-10/11/2023

Organization of the Symposium – Presentation of the materials’ challenges in the hypersonic sectors including the high-entropy alloys –Participation to the roadmap “the future of hypersonic” as a contributing author (team leader of the chapters on materials of the future – Prof Angelo Maligno)

Roadmap Chapter on innovative materials including high-entropy alloys for propulsion, protection, and thermal resistance

Innovation and leadership in Aerospace – ILA	Berlin – Germany	22-24/06/2022	Presentation of the ATLAS results to stakeholders
International Astronautical Congress – IAC	Paris – France	19-21/09/2022	Discussion with stakeholders –Leonardo, Space cargo unlimited, Axiom, Space Application System
PuzzleX 2022	Barcelona	15/11/2022 – 17/11/2022	The importance of high-entropy alloys materials in the future space propulsion landscape – discussion with stakeholders (venture, entrepreneurs)
Rome Future Week	Rome	13-15/09/2023	Presentation of ATLAS as an enabling project for developing new and improved materials for Space applications – Discussion with the head of the commercialization at the European Space Agency
PuzzleX 2023	Barcelona	04/11/2023 – 11/11/2023	The importance of high-entropy alloys materials in the future space propulsion landscape – discussion with stakeholders (venture, entrepreneurs)
Business in Space Growth Network	Noordwijk – ESTEC – The Netherlands	17-19/01/2024	Stakeholders’ meetings

Day: March 25, 2024

Global Market Survey

ATLAS dissemination events – Full list

Here we are! the full list of ATLAS publications