Across all five areas, the report finds:

📈 A surge in company formation around 2021
📍 Many firms clustered around orbital servicing and exploration

side note- every time I think of in-space manufacturing, I envision Star Trek's ports in Enterprise

Despite many challenges, companies are forming to address in-space servicing. Founding data shows progress, with about half of all identified servicing companies forming in the last five years, and five out of every six in the past 12 years

As NASA has become increasingly willing to engage with commercial entities outside of legacy prime contractors, the industry has responded.

The data shows a surge in company formation around 2021, especially in areas where federal services are still limited.

But without clearer demand signals, through procurement or policy, many of these firms could stall before they scale.

In a new
@csetgeorgetown.bsky.social report, we identify 91 U.S. companies developing advanced space technologies in five areas of innovation: PNT, ground-based SSA, exploration, and in-space satellite services and manufacturing.