{"city":"Beijing","name":"Galactic Energy","slug":"galactic-energy","facts":[{"date":"2026-10-01","type":"funding_round","value":"Series D funding round","source":"SpaceNews"},{"date":"2026-09-02","type":"revenue_band","value":"[object Object]","source":"www.space.com — 2026-09-02"},{"date":"2026-09-02","type":"product_launch","value":"Pallas-1 successfully completed its first flight","source":"Raumfahrer.net"},{"date":"2026-09-02","type":"product_launch","value":"Pallas-1 reusable rocket successfully reached orbit on its debut launch","source":"www.space.com — 2026-09-02"},{"date":"2026-09-01","type":"deployment","value":"First Pallas-1 rocket lifted off from Jiuquan and successfully reached orbit","source":"SpaceNews"},{"date":"2026-08-31","type":"deployment","value":"Pallas-1 debut launch scheduled for September 1, 2026","source":"NASASpaceflight"}],"peers":[{"name":"Rocket Lab","rank":4,"slug":"rocket-lab","score":"88.5"},{"name":"CAS Space","rank":78,"slug":"cas-space","score":"66.5"},{"name":"Isar Aerospace","rank":79,"slug":"isar-aerospace","score":"66.5"},{"name":"Skyroot Aerospace","rank":87,"slug":"skyroot-aerospace","score":"65.5"}],"stage":"Public","state":"Beijing","aliases":["Siguang-4-01","星河动力"],"country":"China","domains":[{"why":"Galactic Energy develops and operates orbital launch vehicles, including the reusable Pallas-1 and the larger Pallas-2, with payload capacities ranging from 5,000 to 58,000 kilograms to LEO.","list":"Space 100","rank":88,"tier":"member","layer":"Launch","total":65,"domain":"Space","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":6,"position":6,"progress":9,"firepower":8,"commercial":4,"deployment":6,"production":6,"technology":6},"edition":"November 2026","segment":"Small launch"}],"founded":null,"signals":[{"date":"2026-10-21","header":"Galactic Energy successfully launched the Siguang-4-01 remote-sensing satellite into orbit.","outlet":"Novosti Kosmonavtiki"},{"date":"2026-10-21","header":"Galactic Energy launched the Siguang-4-01 remote-sensing satellite into orbit.","outlet":"Novosti Kosmonavtiki"},{"date":"2026-09-02","header":"Galactic Energy successfully completed the first flight of its Pallas-1 launcher.","outlet":"Raumfahrer.net"},{"date":"2026-09-02","header":"Galactic Energy's reusable Pallas-1 rocket successfully reached orbit on its debut launch.","outlet":"Space.com"},{"date":"2026-09-01","header":"Galactic Energy successfully launched the Pallas-1 rocket on its first flight.","outlet":"Raumfahrer.net"},{"date":"2026-09-01","header":"Galactic Energy made the Eros-2 liquid upper stage an optional component of the Pallas-1 system.","outlet":"sorae"}],"website":"https://galactic-energy.cn","category":"Space · Launch","categories":[{"name":"Heavy & medium","domain":"Space","parent":"Space · Launch"}],"last_round":null,"updated_at":"2026-10-28T10:01:19.803+00:00","facts_total":34,"positioning":"Galactic Energy is a Chinese launch company whose Ceres-1 solid rocket has 21 successful launches serving 27 commercial customers (the Chinese commercial delivery-record holder), plus an operating Ceres-1S sea-launch variant and a Pallas-1 reusable kerolox assembled for its Jiuquan debut. It is the steady-delivery counterpoint to Landspace's technology leadership, though it absorbed a Ceres-1 failure (November 2025) and a Ceres-2 maiden failure (January 2026) within three months of raising RMB 2.4B (~$335M, the largest round ever by a Chinese rocket startup). It is in the IPO queue; revenue is estimated at 10-100m.","sub_category":"Heavy & medium","signals_total":15,"url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/galactic-energy","title":"Galactic Energy · space, Beijing, Beijing, China · scores, facts and signals · Frontier Tech Intelligence","description":"Galactic Energy develops and operates orbital launch vehicles, including the reusable Pallas-1 and the larger Pallas-2, with payload capacities ranging from 5,000 to 58,000 kilograms to LEO. Space 100 rank 88 (score 65) 15 signals and 34 facts with sources.","publisher":"Frontier Tech Intelligence (Future Frontiers, a trade name of Essential Cognition Inc.)","note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}