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Vast has been funded privately to date.
Balerion Space Ventures led the financing round for Vast Space.
Vast updated the Haven-1 schedule to Q1 2027 to allow for additional system-level environmental testing at NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility.
Vast Space raised $500 million in new funding on March 9, 2026.
The latest Vast financing includes $300 million in Series A equity and $200 million in debt.
The Qatar Investment Authority, IQT, Mitsui & Co., MUFG, and Nikon Corporation participated in Vast Space’s financing round.
Haven-2 is Vast’s primary bid for NASA’s Commercial Low Earth Orbit Destinations Phase 2 program.
The new financing will be used to expand Vast’s facilities, grow its team, and advance Haven-2, Vast’s proposed successor to the ISS.
Vast Space has an open call for research proposals for experiments to fly on its private astronaut mission to the ISS.
NASA selected Vast Space for the sixth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station.
The Vast Space mission to the ISS is targeting no earlier than summer 2027 and will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying a Dragon spacecraft.
The crew on Vast Space’s ISS mission will spend up to 14 days aboard the station.
Vast Space is developing the Haven-2 commercial space station as a successor to the ISS.
Development of Vast’s Haven-1 entered its integration phase in January.
Vast’s Series A financing round was led by Balerion Space Ventures and included IQT, the Qatar Investment Authority, Mitsui, MUFG, Nikon, Stellar Ventures, Space Capital, Earthrise Ventures, and company founder Jed McCaleb.
A.C. Charania, a Balerion adviser and former senior NASA official, will join Vast’s board.
Vast secured $300 million in Series A equity financing and $200 million in debt financing.
Vast successfully launched Haven Demo, a pathfinder for Haven-1, into orbit last November.
Vast develops Haven-2, a proposed successor to the International Space Station after its scheduled retirement in 2030.
Vast closed a $300 million Series A funding round to continue production of its Haven commercial space station.