Quantum Space, founded in 2022, is a space infrastructure company focused on developing spacecraft for geosynchronous and cislunar operations. Their Ranger spacecraft are designed for extended life, in-space mobility, on-orbit servicing, and data collection, particularly space domain awareness. Quantum Space aims to establish a "space superhighway" by providing infrastructure for travel and operations in deep space. Key partners include GEOST, Blue Canyon Technologies, and Beyond Gravity, and they have received investment from Sporos Capital Partners.
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QS-1 will operate primarily around the Earth-Moon Lagrange Points EM-L1 and EM-L2 to establish commercial operations for Quantum Space.
Once QS-1 vehicle design is completed, Quantum Space will announce additional mission partners including launch services and commercial ground station providers.
Blue Canyon Technologies will manufacture the spacecraft bus that will carry Quantum Space and customer payloads to cislunar space.
Blue Canyon Technologies’ Saturn product with deep-space enhancements will provide Quantum Space with a quiet, stable, and agile spacecraft architecture for QS-1.
Blue Canyon Technologies will manufacture the spacecraft bus that will carry Quantum and customer payloads to cislunar space.
Quantum Space will launch its first operational mission to cislunar space, QS-1, in October 2024.
Quantum Space intends to demonstrate the ability to operate and navigate in cislunar space with the QS-1 mission.
Quantum Space is a company founded earlier 2022 to develop spacecraft platforms in cislunar space.
Quantum Space plans to rapidly expand space services with additional outposts at various orbits using a modular in-space infrastructure.
Quantum Space focuses on hosting and deploying payloads and providing data and logistics services from unique vantage points such as Earth–Moon Lagrange points.
Quantum Space’s core product is an evolvable and scalable robotic outpost platform designed to deploy satellites, host payloads, acquire data, and provide logistics services from lunar and Earth orbits.
Quantum Space is a Maryland-based startup developing platforms serviced by robotic vehicles in cislunar space.
Quantum Space plans to begin operations at the Earth–moon L-1 point, located about 60,0 m from the moon in the direction of Earth.
The Quantum Space platform at the Earth–moon L-1 point would be serviced by a separate spacecraft that delivers and installs payloads.
The Quantum Space spacecraft bus is designed to host payloads using modular plug-and-play interfaces.
Quantum Space intends to deploy capabilities in cislunar space to support NASA and the Artemis program as well as national security community requirements.
Quantum Space is evaluating spacecraft buses and robotic arms available from industry and making make-or-buy decisions for components.
Quantum Space is starting work on a spacecraft platform that would initially operate at the Earth–moon L-1 Lagrange point and host various payloads.
Quantum Space expects its first platform to be in operation in 2025 or 2026.
Kam Ghaffarian provided seed funding to start Quantum Space sufficient to support the company through early 2023.