RAFTI

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

Orbit Fab expects to produce about 100 RAFTI units 2024.

Three Space Force Tetra-5 satellites equipped with RAFTI ports are projected to launch in 2025 to geostationary orbit for a refueling demonstration.

The U.S. Air Force awarded Orbit Fab a $750,000 Small Business Innovation Research contract last year to flight-qualify the RAFTI port.

The DoD’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) contracted with Orbit Fab for the first in-space fuel sale in GEO and selected Orbit Fab’s RAFTI fueling port and GRIP for its RAPIDS Refueling and Fuel Depot initiative.

Benchmark will debut a Halcyon system equipped with Orbit Fab’s RAFTI refueling kit aboard the SpaceX Transporter 2 rideshare mission scheduled for Friday, 2021-06-25 aboard a Falcon 9 rocket.

Benchmark will debut the first Halcyon system equipped with Orbit Fab’s RAFTI refueling kit aboard the SpaceX Transporter-2 rideshare mission scheduled for 2021-06-25 on a Falcon 9 rocket.

RAFTI will be integrated into Astroscale’s Life Extension In-Orbit (LEXI) Servicer spacecraft scheduled to launch in 2025 to conduct multiple life extension missions in GEO.

APS-R's in-space operations scope includes rendezvous and proximity maneuvers, station keeping and attitude control during refueling, refueling of a client vehicle using a GRIP payload, refueling of APS-R from a CV fuel depot via a RAFTI interface, and client vehicle inspection.

Orbit Fab has received $3,000,000 in contracts from the U.S. Air Force to flight qualify the RAFTI refueling port.

Orbit Fab’s $28,500,000 Series A funding will accelerate executive and technical hires, drive fuel sales, integrate the RAFTI refueling port, and develop fuel delivery and storage infrastructure in GEO, LEO, and VLEO.

Orbit Fab intends to use the $28,500,000 Series A funding to accelerate executive and technical hires, drive fuel sales, integrate the RAFTI refueling port, and develop fuel delivery and storage infrastructure in GEO, LEO, and VLEO.

Orbit Fab planned to ship 15 to 20 RAFTI ports next month, with about half of those ports intended for the U.S. Space Force.

Orbit Fab based the $30,000 RAFTI unit price on market research into the pricing of fill and drain valves used across the satellite industry.

Orbit Fab will deliver the first RAFTI system to an unidentified customer later 2019-06.

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

Orbit Fab won a $3,000,000 U.S. Air Force contract in 2020 to flight-qualify RAFTI.

Orbit Fab secured a $12,000,000 U.S. Air Force Strategic Funding Increase consisting of $6,000,000 from the Air Force and $6,000,000 in matching private funds to develop the Rafti refueling port.