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 has agreements with Cosmoserve and the Royal Netherlands Air and Space Force to strengthen its position in the orbital refueling sector.
The partnership will explore collaboration on integrating Dawn Aerospace’s refuelable propulsion systems with Cosmoserve Space’s debris capture and removal missions.
The partnership aims to enhance mission endurance by combining Dawn Aerospace’s refueling and propulsion capabilities with Cosmoserve Space’s debris-removal platforms.
Dawn Aerospace and Cosmoserve Space have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to partner on sustainable and scalable in-space servicing.
The DFT Port is the hardware foundation of Dawn Aerospace’s Loop Network.
Dawn Aerospace designed and developed a Docking and Fluidic Transfer (DFT) Port.
UARX Space and Dawn Aerospace aim to propose an in-flight refueling system for future OTVs.
The collaboration between UARX Space and Dawn Aerospace includes the use of Dawn’s SatDrive propulsion system to power the OSSIE spacecraft.
UARX Space will carry Dawn Aerospace’s Docking and Fluidic Transfer (DFT) Port for integration on UARX Space’s upcoming OSSIE OTV, launching in 2026.
The DFT Port, developed by Dawn Aerospace, is the hardware foundation of the company’s Loop Network, designed and built in Europe.
The Oklahoma Space Industry Development Authority ordered an Aurora spaceplane from Dawn Aerospace to fly from a spaceport starting in 2027.
Dawn Aerospace started selling the Aurora spaceplane earlier this year.
Dawn Aerospace is developing the Aurora uncrewed spaceplane to fly to altitudes of 25 kilometers and speeds of Mach 1.1 from New Zealand.
A payload built by students at California Polytechnic State University reached Mach 0.79 and an altitude of 37,000 feet aboard the Dawn Aerospace Aurora spaceplane.
Dawn Aerospace was founded in 2017.
Dawn Aerospace, operating as Dawn Hypersonics, conducted a supersonic flight of its Mk-II Aurora rocket-powered aircraft on 2024-11-12.
Dawn Aerospace and Perigee Aerospace are collaborating on an upcoming mission to launch satellites into a 500 km sun-synchronous orbit.
Dawn Aerospace provides satellite propulsion to more than 25 customers in 10 countries, including the United States, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, India, Japan, Canada, and Indonesia.
Dawn Aerospace now includes South Korea among the countries to which it provides satellite propulsion.
Dawn Aerospace projects that at full performance the Mk-II Aurora will fly faster and 2.5 times higher than any prior aircraft that takes off from a runway, including the SR-71 Blackbird.