Dawn Aerospace is a space transportation company focused on providing sustainable and scalable access to space. They are known for developing green propulsion technology and reusable spaceplanes, including the Mk-II Aurora suborbital spaceplane. Dawn supplies propulsion systems globally and aims to reduce the costs associated with satellite launches, with hardware already flying on missions launched by SpaceX, Soyuz and Vega. The company has operations in New Zealand, the Netherlands, and the United States.
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Dawn Aerospace is contributing propulsion for early lunar navigation systems and increased autonomy for surface and orbital assets.
The Dawn Aerospace Radar Tracking Experiment evaluated radar performance against a high-altitude, high-speed air vehicle under controlled conditions.
DARTE was a joint mission involving NZDF Defense Science & Technology, the New Zealand Defence Force, the Royal New Zealand Navy, and Dawn Aerospace’s Aurora suborbital spaceplane.
Dawn Aerospace built Aurora as a reusable platform for rapid, repeatable testing for civil and national security evaluations.
Dawn Aerospace is headquartered in New Zealand and develops the Aurora spaceplane with ambitions of flying twice a day, and it maintains a European subsidiary in the Netherlands focused on propulsion and rapid reuse solutions.
Dawn Aerospace is headquartered in New Zealand and developed the small Aurora spaceplane.
Dawn Aerospace has a European subsidiary based in the Netherlands that has been focused on propulsion solutions.
Dawn Aerospace also flew two other university payloads on the same Pathfinder campaign flight, including California State University and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
Dawn Aerospace flew a commercial SDA camera for Scout Space on the same Aurora flight.
Aurora is a reusable suborbital spaceplane operated by Dawn Aerospace.
Arizona State University flew a thermal-infrared camera aboard Dawn Aerospace’s Aurora spaceplane.
Oklahoma announced plans to base Dawn Aerospace’s Aurora Mark 2 suborbital spaceplane at the state’s spaceport in Burns Flat with flights expected to begin the year after the announcement.
ANA Trading Co., Ltd. has signed memoranda of understanding with New Zealand startups Zenno Astronautics and Dawn Aerospace New Zealand.
Dawn Aerospace completed three rocket-powered flights in three days.
The Dawn Aerospace Aurora has evolved to a rocket-powered suborbital spaceplane after 47 flights on jet power.
Between 2023 and 2025, Dawn Aerospace conducted 15 test flights of the Aurora, from Flight 48 to Flight 62.
Dawn Aerospace de Holanda fabricará los minimotores para mantener la órbita del satélite.
Dawn Aerospace signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Cosmoserve for sustainable in-space servicing through refueling and debris removal technologies.
Dawn Aerospace will provide its SatDrive propulsion system for the flagship PAMI-1 mission with the Royal Netherlands Air and Space Force.
Dawn Aerospace aims to replace toxic hydrazine-based propulsion systems to enable more sustainable and scalable propulsion in space.