{"city":"Redmond","name":"Gravitics","slug":"gravitics","facts":[{"date":"2026-09-14","type":"partnership","value":"U.S. Space Force contract for tactically responsive space development","source":"Gravitics"},{"date":"2026-09-14","type":"partnership","value":"NASA Space Act Agreement focused on verification and validation for large spacecraft","source":"Gravitics"},{"date":"2026-09-14","type":"partnership","value":"Building space infrastructure for a commercial space station","source":"Gravitics"},{"date":"2026-09-14","type":"funding_round","value":"U.S. Space Force STRATFI award to demonstrate orbital carriers","source":"Gravitics"},{"date":"2026-09-14","type":"customer","value":"NASA","source":"Gravitics"},{"date":"2026-09-14","type":"funding_round","value":"NASA SBIR award to develop a commercial sample-return hangar","source":"Gravitics"}],"peers":[{"name":"Airbus Defence & Space","rank":8,"slug":"airbus-defence-space","score":"85"},{"name":"Thales Alenia Space","rank":12,"slug":"thales-alenia-space","score":"82.5"},{"name":"Muon Space","rank":20,"slug":"muon-space","score":"81"},{"name":"K2 Space","rank":22,"slug":"k2-space","score":"80.5"},{"name":"Millennium Space Systems","rank":23,"slug":"millennium-space-systems","score":"80"},{"name":"The Exploration Company","rank":26,"slug":"the-exploration-company","score":"79.5"}],"stage":null,"state":"Washington","aliases":[],"country":"United States","domains":[{"why":"Gravitics builds and sells Orbital Carriers, including Pathfinder and Diamondback, to the U.S. Space Force and defense contractors for responsive orbital missions.","list":"Space 100","rank":75,"tier":"member","layer":"Satellites & spacecraft","total":67,"domain":"Space","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":6,"position":6,"progress":10,"firepower":6,"commercial":7,"deployment":9,"production":4,"technology":6},"edition":"November 2026","segment":"Platforms"}],"founded":null,"signals":[{"date":"2026-09-14","header":"The U.S. Space Force selected Gravitics for a $60 million STRATFI award to demonstrate orbital carriers.","outlet":"Gravitics"},{"date":"2026-09-14","header":"Lockheed Martin selected Gravitics for a Department of War contract of national importance.","outlet":"Gravitics"},{"date":"2026-09-14","header":"Gravitics will build space infrastructure for a commercial space station.","outlet":"Gravitics"},{"date":"2026-09-14","header":"Gravitics demonstrated an 8-meter module capable of accommodating 54 humans.","outlet":"Gravitics"},{"date":"2026-09-14","header":"Gravitics and the U.S. Space Force will flight-demonstrate the Pathfinder orbital carrier and Viper OTX.","outlet":"Gravitics"},{"date":"2026-09-14","header":"Gravitics appointed Philip Wong as chief financial officer.","outlet":"Gravitics"}],"website":"https://gravitics.com","category":"Space · Satellites & spacecraft","categories":[{"name":"Platforms","domain":"Space","parent":"Space · Satellites & spacecraft"}],"last_round":null,"updated_at":"2026-10-25T23:17:49.578217+00:00","facts_total":42,"positioning":"Gravitics is a US space-hardware maker (Seattle) whose StarMax is a 400-cubic-meter station module (near half ISS volume in one launch) that pivoted toward aircraft-carriers-in-orbit for the Space Force: the Orbital Carrier pre-positioned deployment bays and the Viper OTV, sharing a 4m-form-factor manufacturing base. It won a SpaceWERX STRATFI (up to $60M combined government and private, April 2026) and has contracted flight demos with Rocket Lab and True Anomaly as program partners. It is pre-revenue (the STRATFI is matched funding, not revenue).","sub_category":"Platforms","signals_total":15,"url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/gravitics","title":"Gravitics · space, Redmond, Washington, United States · scores, facts and signals · Frontier Tech Intelligence","description":"Gravitics builds and sells Orbital Carriers, including Pathfinder and Diamondback, to the U.S. Space Force and defense contractors for responsive orbital missions. Space 100 rank 75 (score 67) 15 signals and 42 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."}