The company has developed proprietary space logistics technology and transportation solutions to accelerate the growth and development of a trillion-dollar space economy through an incremental strategic approach to the space marketplace to deliver successful customer outcomes today while developing advanced products and services for the needs of tomorrow.
D-Orbit was founded in 2011. With a manifest of future missions fully booked by new and returning customers, the company has already successfully flown 44 payloads. D-Orbit is the first company to address the logistics needs of the space market. Its forward-thinking view has enabled it to consistently create solutions for its customers that save them money and time, like ION Cargo Spacecraft, a vehicle that can transport satellites in orbit and release them individually into distinct orbital slots, and a proprietary cloud-based mission control software suite designed to control entire satellite constellations.
As it looks to the future, D-Orbit is already developing and testing new technologies to extend the life of satellites in orbit, perform active debris removal, enable interplanetary space logistics, and more. D-Orbit is creating an infrastructure that will broaden humankind’s opportunities to operate in space and colonize the solar system.
D-Orbit was founded in 2011. With a manifest of future missions fully booked by new and returning customers, the company has already successfully flown 44 payloads. D-Orbit is the first company to address the logistics needs of the space market. Its forward-thinking view has enabled it to consistently create solutions for its customers that save them money and time, like ION Cargo Spacecraft, a vehicle that can transport satellites in orbit and release them individually into distinct orbital slots, and a proprietary cloud-based mission control software suite designed to control entire satellite constellations.
As it looks to the future, D-Orbit is already developing and testing new technologies to extend the life of satellites in orbit, perform active debris removal, enable interplanetary space logistics, and more. D-Orbit is creating an infrastructure that will broaden humankind’s opportunities to operate in space and colonize the solar system.
Location: Italy, Lombardy, Fino Mornasco
Employees: 51-200
Phone: +39 02 3792 0900
Total raised: $110M
Founded date: 2011
Investors 13
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Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 12.01.2024 | Series C | $110M | - |
Mentions in press and media 23
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| 25.02.2025 | From space junk to interplanetary travel: Magdrive’s €9.9 million funding for spacecraft propulsion | Oxfordshire-based Magdrive, a startup creating the next-generation of spacecraft propulsion, today announced its €9.9 million Seed funding round led by pan-European VC Redalpine. Founders Fund, who led Magdrive’s first funding round, and Ba... |
| 07.05.2024 | Starfish Space and D-Orbit complete orbital rendezvous, bringing Otter Pup mission to a close | Starfish Space’s ambitious first mission to demonstrate on-orbit rendezvous and docking tech has officially come to a close, with the startup managing to complete some of the objectives thanks to a little help from an unexpected partner: sp... |
| 23.04.2024 | Seraphim Space launches second spacetech fund | UK-based spacetech VC Seraphim Space have closed their new fund Seraphim Space Ventures II LP (SVII). Seraphim Space is the most prolific spacetech investor globally, with investments in over 120 SpaceTech companies in 27 countries that hav... |
| 23.04.2024 | UK’s Seraphim Space announces first close of new early-stage fund to back SpaceTech innovators | Read this article in: London-based Seraphim Space, a SpaceTech investment group, announced that it has completed the first phase of fundraising for its new venture fund, Seraphim Space Ventures II LP (SSV II). SSV II’s new investment partne... |
| 12.01.2024 | D-Orbit Raises $110M in Series C Funding | D-Orbit, a Fino Mornasco, Como, Italy-based space logistics company, raised €100m in Series C funding. The round was led by led by Marubeni Corp., with participation from Avantgarde, CDP VC, Seraphim Space Investment Trust, United Ventures,... |
| 11.01.2024 | D-Orbit raises $110M to reach new heights in space logistics services | Logistics has become the cornerstone of how so much works on earth — we may order things online, but ultimately we need to get products and ourselves from A to B — and some believe that logistics models will be even more important in the re... |
| 11.01.2024 | D-Orbit raises $110M to reach new heights in space logistics services |
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