About Argo Space
Argo Space Corp. is a venture-backed startup founded by former SpaceX leaders, based in Hermosa Beach, California. Argo is working to catalyze a Lunar economy through the use of Lunar water. The company provides transport services from low Earth orbit to geosynchronous and Lunar orbits using its refuellable, water-powered in-space transport vehicles. Argo will ultimately source this water propellant from the Moon. By creating in-space commercial value for a Lunar resource, Argo aims to expand humanity’s economic sphere to the Moon and build a commercially sustained Lunar presence.
About Astroport
Astroport Space Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2020 as a technology venture arm and a subsidiary of Exploration Architecture Corporation. Astroport is developing patent-pending regolith solidification technologies for lunar infrastructure construction using 3D printing and autonomous robotics, with an initial focus on lunar landing pad emplacements. The company was founded with a vision to design, deploy, and operate interplanetary landing ports to facilitate safe, reliable, and efficient spaceflights to the Moon, Mars and beyond.
About Avalon Space
Avalon Space is a Toronto-based space services and infrastructure company dedicated to accelerating the pace of humanity's expansion out beyond Earth orbit. Avalon works with actors across the space ecosystem, from mission and system developers to user groups across multiple market sectors, on growing the infrastructure that can unlock a more sustainable, inclusive, and commercially scalable path for the human and robotic exploration decade ahead.
About Interstellar Lab
Founded late 2018, Interstellar Lab is a biotech American-French startup that develops, manufactures, and commercializes biofarming platforms combining advanced hardware, AI-enabled control and bio-science for high-precision plant cultivation on Earth and in Space. Their highly controlled environment pods enable sustainable, efficient, and durable production of plant-based ingredients used by the Natural Ingredients, Cosmetics, Pharmaceuticals and Food industries. The company has also developed strategic partnerships with NASA and ESA for food production and plant research in microgravity. Based in Ivry-sur-Seine, France and at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Interstellar Lab today has over thirty employees from SpaceX, Airbus, Trimble, and InFarm, and is backed by venture capital and institutional investors in the U.S. and Europe.
About LifeShip
LifeShip is a mission to connect humanity with the cosmos, back up Earth, and spread life to the stars. LifeShip sends spacetime capsules to the Moon and beyond that are plant seed banks, DNA biobanks, and data archives. We're a community-powered space exploration mission where people add their DNA and story to population banks of humanity, as well as a data and biological archive for organizations to preserve content in Space.
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Contact:
John Taylor for Astrolab
john@astrolab.space
+1 (571) 437-4685
Robert Carlisle for Argo Space
info@argospace.com
+1 (703) 829-5407
Sam Ximenes for Astroport
info@astroportspace.com
+1 (210) 404-2981
Jen Scholten for Avalon Space
info@avalon.space
+1 (647) 614-2480
Appolonia Belvisi for Interstellar Lab
a.bevisi@interstellarlab.earth
+33 6 62 65 38 18
Ben Haldeman for LifeShip
ben@lifeship.com
+1 (415) 218-5316
