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The Exploration Company was selected by the European Space Agency on 2025-05-22 for an initial study contract as one of two companies for a commercial cargo service to support the ISS and commercial stations.
The Exploration Company completed Green Thruster testing in Poland in March 2024.
Starlab Space announced a separate agreement with The Exploration Company covering three cargo missions to and from Starlab using the Nyx vehicle.
The ESA commercial cargo program awarded contracts for initial studies to Thales Alenia Space and The Exploration Company on 2024-05-22, a little more than six months after ESA announced it would formally begin the program.
Hélène Huby, chief executive of The Exploration Company, intends to fly to the space station in 2027 and has started work on the final spacecraft that is planned to undergo a preliminary design review this summer.
The Exploration Company is a startup developing spacecraft to transport cargo to and from Earth orbit and cislunar space.
The Exploration Company raised $44,000,000 in a Series A financing round in early 2023.
The Exploration Company opened a U.S. office led by Mark Kirasich, a former NASA official whose roles at the agency included being Orion program manager.
The European Space Agency awarded study contracts worth about 25,000,000 EUR each to Thales Alenia Space and The Exploration Company on 2024-05-22.
The Exploration Company has appointed Mark Kirasich as the VP of U.S. Operations.
Helene Huby is the CEO of The Exploration Company.
Mark Kirasich is responsible for overseeing all aspects of The Exploration Company’s operations in the United States.
Mark Kirasich held key leadership positions at NASA and Blue Origin prior to joining The Exploration Company.
The Exploration Company is a European commercial space company developing, manufacturing, and operating a reusable space capsule called Nyx.
The Exploration Company completed a $40,500,000 Series A funding round in February 2023.
In September 2023, The Exploration Company signed a cargo services pre-booking agreement with Axiom Space.
The Exploration Company’s latest test campaign took place with cooperation and support from DLR-Institut für Raumfahrtantriebe, Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES), and the European Space Agency (ESA).
The Exploration Company plans to fly a small reentry demonstrator later 2024.
The Exploration Company raised 40,500,000 EUR in February.
The Exploration Company plans to develop commercial vehicles for transporting cargo to and from space.