PreSeries Predicts! Top 5 Space Travel Startups. May the 4th be with you!

Fabien Durand
PreSeries
Published in
3 min readMay 4, 2018

PreSeries predictive algorithms crawl the web hungry for startup information. So far, almost 400k companies have been ruthlessly processed, scored, and ranked. Today, we offer you a sneak peek at the PreSeries Dashboard and our latest ranking of the 5 most promising startups in the Space Travel industry.

1 — Axiom Space

Axiom’s mission is to make living and working in Earth orbit commonplace as a means to sustained deep space exploration. Overview: As the ISS is retired, the world will be in need a of a new space station; Axiom is taking on this challenge, creating the first international commercial space station to host government astronauts, private companies, and individual explorers alike.

2 — Virgin Orbit

Virgin Orbit will provide dedicated, responsive, and affordable launch services for small satellites. Founded by Sir Richard Branson and owned by the Virgin Group and Aabar Investments PJS, Virgin Orbit and its sister companies — Virgin Galactic and The Spaceship Company — are opening access to space to change the world for good. To launch the small satellite revolution, Virgin Orbit is developing LauncherOne, a flexible launch service for commercial and government-built satellites

3 — SpaceVR

SpaceVR is automating all tasks by collecting zettabytes of data from it’s remote VRcontrolled general purpose avatar, Human. Their initial focus is on extremely biohazardous earth jobs, working their way up to space. They see Human as the future of space exploration. Currently it costs $200m per year to maintain one astronaut in space. They can do the same for $1m per year. Increasing their ability to do space science and space exploration by 200 times.

4 — Vector Space

Vector was founded to break down those barriers by developing a platform to provide low cost, and reliable access to orbit. Vector allows their customers to focus on space applications and building companies around their technologies in space, and not the underlying launch and space hardware. Space need not be the realm of the elite, and privileged few any longer.

5 — Firefly Space Systems

Firefly is developing a family of low-cost, high-performance, dedicated small satellite launchers to extend humanity’s reach into the universe. Their team consists of highly experienced aerospace engineers that have spent the better part of the past decade working at various NewSpace companies, including SpaceX, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic.

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