Atomos Space (founded in 2018) was a space logistics company specializing in in-space transportation services, specifically the development and operation of Orbital Transfer Vehicles (OTVs). These vehicles are designed to rendezvous with satellites in orbit and provide services like orbit raising, precision insertion, relocation, life extension, and end-of-life disposal. Atomos aimed to make any orbit as accessible as LEO by providing "Delta-V on Demand" services, with partners including NASA, US Air Force, and US Space Force. **As of April 24, 2025, Atomos Space has been acquired by Katalyst Space Technologies.**
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Katalyst acquired Atomos Space in 2025.
Atomos Space has fewer than 50 employees.
Atomos Space decided to bring manufacturing in-house as a solution to its challenges.
The capital needs of Atomos Space shifted from lean R&D to sustained manufacturing capital expenditures.
Bringing manufacturing in-house requires Atomos Space to hire specialized engineers.
Atomos Space is a Colorado-based satellite servicing startup.
Atomos Space plans a 2026 mission to geostationary orbit to deploy Katalyst Space’s Shield sensor featuring multiple nested sensing payloads.
Atomos Space plans a 2025 mission to geostationary orbit using its Quark servicing vehicle to service an undisclosed customer.
The Quark servicing vehicle will install Katalyst Space’s Sight sensor on a commercial telecom satellite as part of Atomos Space’s planned 2025 mission.
Atomos Space received telemetry from both Quark-LTE and Gluon on 2024-03-05 indicating the spacecraft were healthy but transmitting at a far lower rate than planned.
Atomos Space has been working to improve communications and to detumble Quark-LTE and Gluon and was preparing to commission the spacecraft’s propulsion system to demonstrate proximity operations as of 2024-03-20.
For the AFWERX Direct-to-Phase 2 contract, Atomos Space will supply both the servicer and the client spacecraft to interact with the Axiom Station in the test facility.
Atomos Space won a $1,600,000 AFWERX Direct-to-Phase 2 contract to establish a ground-based testing facility for multi-party rendezvous and proximity operations.
Atomos Space plans to launch its first orbital transfer vehicle on a SpaceX Transporter rideshare flight in 2024.
Under the AFWERX contract, Atomos Space is working with Axiom Space to establish processes for rendezvous with Axiom Space’s future space station.
Axiom Space and Atomos Space are partnering to develop processes and requirements for Orbital Transfer Vehicles to rendezvous with Axiom Station.
The AFWERX contract for Atomos Space was announced on 2023-10-18.
Solestial will supply large solar blankets for two Atomos solar-electric orbital transfer vehicles slated to begin flying in late 2024 or early 2025.
Atomos plans to test a small Solestial photovoltaic panel on an orbital transfer vehicle demonstration launching on a SpaceX Transporter rideshare flight in early 2024.
The Atomos contract provides validation for Solestial’s technology from a customer with a demanding mission.