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General Atomics is a privately held defense and technology company running major programs in electromagnetic systems, nuclear technology, and national-security satellite systems.
ACTIVEGeneral Atomics is a privately held defense and diversified technologies company with major programs in electromagnetic systems, nuclear technology, and satellite systems for national security.
General Atomics is a privately held defense and diversified technologies company with major programs in electromagnetic systems, nuclear technology, and satellite systems for national security.
Not ranked: No measurable space activity in our data (space-coded federal awards or subcontracts, space revenue in the company’s SEC annual report, an orbital launch, or a space-segment profile: for a defense company or a diversified aerospace group, a subsector naming space work, and for a diversified group a space line cited at $100M or more): scored, but not ranked as a space company.
3 of 7 inputs measured · Insufficient data · 63% of applicable weight backed by data
Not measured: Market value, Reported revenue
Not measured: Capital raised (24 months)
Not measured: Open-role change (90 days)
A pillar score averages the company’s percentiles among the tracked companies with a value: relative standing, not a grade. Inputs measured 2026-10-14 (UTC) · methodology v6. Every input, its value and percentile · How it is computed
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Sources: Founded, Headquarters, CEO, Employees, Legal name
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No private round on record. Debt, grants, state capital, owner funding and acquisitions are listed under Funding history by class and not added in.
GA-EMS's first GA-150 spacecraft, a LEO hosted-payload test bed (carried NASA's Deep Space Atomic Clock) launched on Falcon Heavy STP-2 in June 2019; completed its five-year mission in March 2025 and is in its deorbit phase.
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Compiled Oct 14, 2026 from 5 public records. Every figure links the record it comes from.
Space federal awards
11 awards, $108.1M obligated
Awards with activity since Oct 1, 2018, as searched Sep 24, 2026. Awarded Aug 30, 2018 to Apr 29, 2026; most from NASA (8 awards)
Counts awards the government's own product code or programme title marks as space work, or the space research industry code; the satellite-telecoms industry code counts only together with a space agency, office or a space word in the award's own description. Obligated dollars, not ceilings; umbrella contracts (IDVs) are left out because their orders are counted one by one. Amounts as USAspending reported them on Sep 24, 2026.
Source: USAspending.gov recipient profile (all awards, not only space)
Latest award Apr 29, 2026
Latest space award
$100K from DoD
CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT MINIMUM GUARANTEE
Source: USAspending.gov award record
Awarded Apr 29, 2026
Satellites owned or operated
2 in orbit of 4 launched
Latest: GAzelle
Payloads GCAT lists with this organisation as owner or operator. "In orbit" is GCAT status O. Counted under GCAT organisation code GACO. Catalogue updated Sep 24, 2026.
Satellites built
4 payloads launched, 2 in orbit
Latest: GAzelle
Payloads GCAT lists with this organisation as manufacturer. Counted under GCAT organisation code GACO. Catalogue updated Sep 24, 2026.
Source: GCAT satellite catalogue
Latest launch Oct 7, 2022
Department of Defense
3 space awards, $41.5M obligated
USAspending.gov award record, Apr 29, 2026
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
8 space awards, $66.5M obligated
USAspending.gov award record, Sep 27, 2024
Space Development Agency
Owns 2 satellites it built (latest LINCS 1)
GCAT satellite catalogue, Jun 30, 2021
Satellite data from GCAT (J. McDowell, planet4589.org/space/gcat), CC BY 4.0.
APA
SpaceNexus. (2026, October 14). General Atomics: Company dossier [Data set]. Retrieved October 14, 2026, from https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/general-atomics
Chicago
SpaceNexus. "General Atomics: Company dossier." Data as of October 14, 2026. Accessed October 14, 2026. https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/general-atomics.
BibTeX
@misc{spacenexus_generalatomics_2026,
author = {{SpaceNexus}},
title = {{General Atomics}: Company dossier},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
howpublished = {\url{https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/general-atomics}},
url = {https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/general-atomics},
urldate = {2026-10-14},
note = {Data as of 2026-10-14; each fact links its primary source}
}