Apex Space, based in Los Angeles, is a spacecraft manufacturing company specializing in standardized, productized small satellite bus platforms for commercial and government applications. Apex aims to mass-produce scalable satellite platforms for rapid deployment and adaptability, addressing the bottleneck in the space industry. The company's leadership has experience from SpaceX, Rocket Lab, and NASA JPL, and they have secured funding to expand operations and explore missions beyond low Earth orbit. Key words: satellite buses, spacecraft manufacturing, launch vehicles, space industry.
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Apex Space completed two funding rounds totaling $400 million in 2025, including a $200 million Series C in April and a $200 million Series D in September.
Apex Technology provides a configurable and productized small satellite bus for NEC’s on-orbit demonstration mission.
The NEC demonstration satellite is based on Apex Technology’s Aires satellite bus platform.
NEC Corporation will buy one of Apex’s Aries satellite buses for a communications demo mission next year.
The NEC contract is Apex’s first business in Japan.
Both York and Apex Space are eager to move past the legal challenge.
In February 2025, the $45.9 million Phase II SBIR contract was awarded to Apex Space.
Apex Space continued work on the Phase II SBIR contract during the legal proceedings.
York ended its protest of a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded to Apex Space.
This year, multiple U.S. firms like Apex Space, Stoke Space Technologies, and EnduroSat received several nine-figure fundings.
Apex Space has closed two $200 million funding rounds in back-to-back quarters this year.
Apex Space plans to launch a commercially-developed space-based interceptor demo called Project Shadow.
Villa has designed modular workflows and brought tooling in-house for Apex Space.
Apex Space specializes in building mass-manufacturable satellite buses.
Villa leads a team of 10 technicians at Apex Space.
Alexa Villa is the lead technician for Apex Space.
Brendan Carr delivered a speech at a ribbon cutting for Apex Space’s new satellite manufacturing facility in El Segundo, California.
Apex acquired Phase Four’s Hall-effect thruster technology, including hardware and personnel.
The 19 HALO pool members are Airbus U.S. Space & Defense (Arlington, Virginia); Apex Technology, Inc. (Culver City, California); AST Space Mobile USA LLC (Midland, Texas); Astro Digital, U.S. Inc. (San Jose, California); Capella Space Corp. (San Francisco); CesiumAstro Inc. (Austin, Texas); Firefly Aerospace, Inc. (Cedar Park, Texas); Geneva Technologies Inc. (Monument, Colorado); Impulse Space, Inc. (Redondo Beach, California); Kepler Communications U.S. Inc. (Wilmington, Delaware); Kuiper Government Solutions (KGS) LLC (Arlington, Virginia); LeoStella LLC (Tukwila, Washington); Momentus Space (San Jose, California); Muon Space, Inc. (Mountain View, California); NovaWurks Inc. (Los Alamitos, California); Space Exploration Technologies Corps. (SpaceX) (Hawthorne, California); Turion Space Corp. (Irvine, California); Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Inc. (Irvine, California); and York Space Systems LLC (Denver).
GRATTIS will use an Aries spacecraft bus provided by Apex Space.