# Axiom Space: space company profile

> Axiom Space: Axiom Space is building a commercial space station while running private astronaut missions to the ISS and developing NASA's next-generation AxEMU spacesuit.

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- Data as of: profile last verified 2026-10-05
- How the numbers are made: https://spacenexus.us/methodology#space-score

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## Profile facts

- Name: Axiom Space
- What it does: Axiom Space is building a commercial space station while running private astronaut missions to the ISS and developing NASA's next-generation AxEMU spacesuit. (SpaceNexus analyst note)
- Sector: infrastructure
- Headquarters: Houston, Texas, US
- Founded: 2016
- Employees: 501-1000
- Chief executive: Jonathan Cirtain
- Status: active
- Ownership: private
- Publicly traded: no
- Website: [https://www.axiomspace.com](https://www.axiomspace.com) (SpaceNexus profile)
- Profile claimed by the company: no
- Profile last verified: 2026-10-05

## Funding

- Raised privately: $480M (3 private rounds on record (1 with no stated amount, counted but not added). Debt, grants, state capital, owner funding and acquisitions are listed under Funding history by class and not added in.)
- Last Round: Equity round (Feb 2026)

| Date | Round | Amount (USD) | Lead investor | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-02-12 | equity | undisclosed | Type One Ventures / Qatar Investment Authority | [SpaceNews](https://spacenews.com/axiom-space-raises-additional-350-million/) |
| 2023-08-21 | Series C | $350.0M | Aljazira Capital; Boryung | [SpaceNews](https://spacenews.com/axiom-space-raises-350m-at-series-c-close-with-2-2b-in-customer-contracts/) |
| 2021-02-16 | Series B | $130.0M | C5 Capital | [Axiom Space (press release)](https://www.axiomspace.com/release/series-b) |

- Rounds come from company announcements, regulatory filings and press reports. Amounts, valuations and investors are as reported and may be incomplete or later revised. Not investment advice, and not an offer or solicitation for any security.

## Space Score

- Score 694 of 1000, tier Contender.
- Rank 14 of 93 ranked companies (likely between 9 and 26 given the pillars we have not measured).
- 4 of 8 inputs measured, medium confidence, 81% of applicable pillar weight backed by data; measured 2026-10-14 02:10 UTC.
- Scale (38% of this total): 50 of 100; not measured: Market value, Reported revenue
- Government space demand (25% of this total): 94 of 100
- Capital access (19% of this total): not measured; counted at the roster median, 50; not measured: Capital raised (24 months)
- Momentum (19% of this total): 95 of 100; not measured: Open-role change (90 days)
- Flight record (20% nominal, dropped): does not apply
- Every input, value and percentile: [breakdown](https://spacenexus.us/rankings/space-score-methodology?company=axiom-space#breakdown)
- The Space Score is a 0 to 1000 snapshot of a space company's size and activity, relative to the other companies we track. It combines size (headcount, market value and revenue, 30%), U.S. federal space contracts (20%), equity raised (15%), momentum (15%) and, for launch companies, orbital launches (20%), so it leans heavily on size. It is descriptive: not a forecast, a rating or investment advice.
- The Space Score ranks companies relative to each other on public data we hold. It describes; it does not rate, forecast or recommend. It is not a credit rating and not investment advice.

## Government contracts (latest)

| Award date | Agency | Title | Value (USD) | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-08-11 | NASA | THIS IS AN ADMINISTRATIVE REISSUE OF THE PAM 5 AX-5 MISSION SPECIFIC ORDER THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY ISSUED UNDER PIID 80JSC026F0015, BUT IS NOW UNDER PIID 80JSC026F0048 DUE TO NASA SYSTEM LIMITATIONS, REQ… | $1.7M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC026F0048_8000_80JSC026G0003_8000) |
| 2026-07-28 | NASA | EXPLORATION EXTRAVEHICULAR ACTIVITY SERVICES (XEVAS) | $8.7M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC026FA082_8000_80JSC022DA022_8000) |
| 2026-01-30 | NASA | PRIVATE ASTRONAUT MISSION 5, AX-5, MISSION SPECIFIC ORDER | not recorded | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC026F0015_8000_80JSC026G0003_8000) |
| 2024-09-27 | NASA | SPECIAL STUDIES | $39.9M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC024FA196_8000_80JSC022DA022_8000) |
| 2023-07-28 | NASA | AX-4 PRIVATE ASTRONAUT MISSION TO THE ISS | $547K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC023F0090_8000_80JSC021G0001_8000) |
| 2023-06-23 | NASA | EXTRAVEHICULAR ACTIVITY (EVA) DEMONSTRATION | $131.0M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC023FA154_8000_80JSC022DA022_8000) |
| 2023-03-14 | NASA | PRIVATE ASTRONAUT MISSION TO THE ISS AX-3 | $1.0M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC023F0008_8000_80JSC021G0001_8000) |
| 2022-09-08 | NASA | EXPLORATION EXTRAVEHICULAR ACTIVITY SERVICE (XEVAS) ARTEMIS PROGRAM | $414.4M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC022FA103_8000_80JSC022DA022_8000) |
| 2022-08-02 | NASA | AX-2 PRIVATE ASTRONAUT MISSION TO THE ISS | $897K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC022F0056_8000_80JSC021G0001_8000) |
| 2021-04-28 | NASA | PRIVATE ASTRONAUT MISSION ONE (AX-1) | $4.1M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC021F0183_8000_80JSC021G0001_8000) |
| 2019-02-12 | NASA | TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR RODENT MISSION | $1.2M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC019C0002_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-) |

## Operations

- Open roles on the SpaceNexus jobs board: 95

## Sources

- [SpaceNexus company database](https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles): profile facts, with the verification date above
- Each funding round's cited source: SEC filings, company announcements and press reports, linked per round
- Federal award records: contract awards

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