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Apex raised a $7,500,000 seed round of funding in October 2022 and has raised more than $50,000,000 in total funding.
Apex’s first satellite, Aries SN1, was launched on 2024-03-04 as one of 53 payloads on SpaceX’s Transporter-10 rideshare mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
Apex completed Aries as an ESPA-class spacecraft bus weighing 100 kg that can accommodate an additional 100 kg of payload.
ispace Mission 3 is planned for launch in 2026, is led by ispace’s U.S. office, and will utilize the APEX 1.0 lander.
Mission 3 is planned for launch in 2026, is led by ispace's U.S. office, and will utilize the APEX 1.0 lander.
Factory One will serve as Apex’s headquarters and production facility with a capacity to produce dozens of spacecraft per year.
Apex specializes in building productized satellite buses starting with the Aries platform.
Apex manufactures Aries buses at scale and offers configurable performance packages for diverse mission needs.
Apex plans for Factory One to produce 50 satellite platforms annually across its Aries and Nova-class models within a few years.
Apex established a new headquarters and production facility called Factory One in the Playa Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Apex is producing five additional Aries units for customers in 2024 and plans to ramp production to 20 spacecraft by 2025.
Apex’s inaugural Aries spacecraft is scheduled to launch in 2024-01-01 carrying multiple customer payloads.
Development of Factory One is supported by a $16,000,000 Series A round Apex raised in June.
The satellites produced at Factory One will include a mix of Apex’s initial Aries satellite bus and its larger Nova bus based on customer demand.
Apex’s first satellite, Call to Adventure, carrying payloads for multiple customers, is scheduled to launch on the SpaceX Transporter-10 rideshare mission in early 2024.
Apex signed a 10-year lease for Factory One with the intention for it to serve as the company’s headquarters.
Apex signed a lease on 2023-12-14 for a nearly 4,300-square-meter building in the Playa Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles to serve as a production facility called Factory One.
The Series 3 development will leverage work done on APEX 1.0, a lander formerly known as Series 2 that is being developed by ispace U.S.
APEX 1.0 is being used for a NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) mission led by Draper.
The first APEX 1.0 lander for the Draper CLPS mission is designated Mission 3 by ispace and is slated to launch in 2026.