The Exploration Company

The Exploration Company is building a full-stack space transportation platform. Its Nyx spacecraft is a reusable capsule designed to serve space stations in low-Earth orbit, with listed capabilities in orbital propulsion, docking, and re-entry and recovery. Storm is a high-thrust rocket engine, described on the website as a reusable engine intended to power a launcher.

The website says the company serves space stations and invites visitors to book a mission on Nyx. It states that 10 missions have been booked and that it has a government sales function. No pricing or revenue model is published on the website, so the revenue model is not confirmed beyond mission bookings.

The company was founded in 2021 by Hélène Huby and is headquartered in Munich, Germany. The website lists offices in Bordeaux (France), Turin (Italy), Houston (Texas), Dubai and Abu Dhabi (UAE), and Luxembourg. The careers page lists 40 open positions, mainly in engineering, propulsion, assembly-integration-test, software and programme management, and cites more than 600 team members.

Product: Nyx reusable cargo capsule for space stations in low-Earth orbit, and Storm high-thrust reusable rocket engine.