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Orbit Fab

US
commercialFounded 2018
Boulder, Colorado, United States
www.orbitfab.com
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Orbit Fab is expanding beyond low Earth orbit with a ride on the GEO Pathfinder mission.

NARRATIVE PLAN9/15/2021Spaceflight’s First Lunar And GEO Rideshare Mission “GEO Pathfinder”

A technical demonstration of the bundled refueling solution is scheduled at a SpaceX launch pad and in space aboard Orbit Fab’s first operational fuel depot to be launched on a Falcon 9 later 2021.

NARRATIVE GENERAL2/23/2021Orbit Fab + Benchmark Space Systems Team Up For In-Space, High-Test, Peroxide-based Refueling, Servicing Infrastructure

Orbit Fab plans a technical demonstration of the bundled refueling solution at the SpaceX launch pad and in space aboard its first operational fuel depot to be launched on a Falcon 9 later in 2021.

NARRATIVE GENERAL2/23/2021Press Release: Orbit Fab and Benchmark Space Systems Team to Establish In-Space High-Test Peroxide-based Refueling, Servicing Infrastructure

Orbit Fab previously signed an agreement with Spaceflight Inc. to launch its first operational fuel depot to orbit in 2021.

ORG RELATIONSHIP1/12/2021Orbit Fab + SCOUT To Host The 1st Commercial Inspection Payload for SSA

Orbit Fab previously signed an agreement with Spaceflight Inc. to launch its first operational fuel depot to orbit in 2021.

NARRATIVE GENERAL1/12/2021Orbit Fab + SCOUT To Host The 1st Commercial Inspection Payload for SSA

Orbit Fab signed an agreement with Spaceflight Inc. to launch its first operational fuel depot to orbit in 2021.

ORG RELATIONSHIP12/17/2020Additional Seed Funding for Orbit Fab’s Gas Stations in Space™

Orbit Fab signed an agreement with Spaceflight Inc. to launch its first operational fuel depot to orbit in 2021.

NARRATIVE GENERAL12/17/2020Additional Seed Funding for Orbit Fab’s Gas Stations in Space™

Orbit Fab signed an agreement with Spaceflight Inc. to launch the company’s first operational fuel depot to orbit.

ORG RELATIONSHIP11/16/2020Orbit Fab’s First Operational Gas Station In Space To Launch In 2021

Orbit Fab signed an agreement with Spaceflight Inc. to launch the company’s first operational fuel depot to orbit.

NARRATIVE GENERAL11/16/2020Orbit Fab’s First Operational Gas Station In Space To Launch In 2021

Orbit Fab received a $3,000,000 contract from the U.S. Air Force to fully flight qualify the RAFTI service valve.

ORG RELATIONSHIP11/16/2020Orbit Fab’s First Operational Gas Station In Space To Launch In 2021

Orbit Fab received a $250,000 award from America’s Seed Fund, a grant program run by the National Science Foundation, on 2020-03-31.

ORG RELATIONSHIP3/31/2020Orbit Fab gets award to test satellite refueling technology

Orbit Fab’s docking system technology will build upon its previous work testing fluid transfer technology on the International Space Station.

NARRATIVE PLAN3/31/2020Orbit Fab gets award to test satellite refueling technology

Orbit Fab completed tests of an experiment called Furphy on the International Space Station on 2019-06-18.

NARRATIVE GENERAL6/18/2019Orbit Fab demonstrates satellite refueling technology on ISS

Orbit Fab became the first private company to supply the ISS with water using its own proprietary refueling equipment and processes.

NARRATIVE GENERAL6/18/2019Orbit Fab demonstrates satellite refueling technology on ISS

Orbit Fab is working with the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, which operates the national lab portion of the ISS, to fly the propellant-transfer experiment.

ORG RELATIONSHIP11/6/2018Orbit Fab to test refueling technology on ISS

Orbit Fab is a San Francisco-based startup planning to develop orbiting propellant depots.

NARRATIVE PLAN11/6/2018Orbit Fab to test refueling technology on ISS
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