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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Atomos raised $5,000,000 in 2022.
Atomos’ orbital transfer vehicles require large solar arrays to move commercial and government satellites relatively quickly from low Earth orbit to geostationary orbit and from geostationary transfer orbit to geostationary orbit.
Solestial will supply solar arrays for space tugs developed by Atomos Space.
Atomos Space is developing high-power orbital transfer vehicles to provide a range of in-space transportation services to satellite operators.
Solestial's photovoltaic system will provide primary power for Atomos Space's solar-electric orbital transfer vehicles on two subsequent commercial missions beginning in late 2024.
After the initial demonstration, subsequent Solestial blanket shipsets will power two Atomos orbital transfer vehicles that will provide deployment services to constellation operators in low Earth orbit and relocation services to operators in other orbits.
Solestial’s photovoltaic system will provide primary power for Atomos’s solar-electric orbital transfer vehicles on two subsequent commercial missions beginning in late 2024.
Atomos Space provides in-space transportation and orbit-raising services to satellites to enable access to difficult-to-reach orbits.
Atomos Space’s Orbital Transfer Vehicles will provide in-space transportation services to customers and launch aggregation services of multiple customer spacecraft for launch on Gilmour vehicles.
Seven additional companies, including Atomos, Exotrail, Firefly Aerospace, Launcher, Space Machines, Exolaunch, and Impulse Space, are preparing to enter the market with initial flights scheduled in the next three years.
Cantos Ventures invested in Atomos Space in 2021 and that investment brought Atomos Space’s total capital raised in 2021 to $5,000,000.
Atomos Space has won and executed over $2,000,000 in contracts with NASA, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Space Force.
Atomos Space expects to launch its first two spacecraft, Quark and Gluon, in 2023.
Since the 2021 investment, Atomos Space has completed ground testing of its autonomous rendezvous and docking technology and its integrated propulsion system.
Atomos Space’s first two spacecraft and another planned for late 2024 will use solar-powered systems.
Atomos Space has executed over $2,000,000 in contracts with NASA, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Space Force to support its OTV plans.
Atomos Space announced on 2022-01-12 that it raised $5,000,000 that it had first sought in 2020 to develop its space-tug business.
The $5,000,000 funding round for Atomos Space paves the way for launching its first two spacecraft in 2023.
Atomos Space planned to raise $5,000,000 in spring 2020 and was funded through 2021 without additional capital.