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Gravitics develops StarMax inflatable space habitat modules sized for Starship's payload capacity and operates a 100,000-square-foot manufacturing facility.
ACTIVEGravitics, based in Marysville, Washington, designs and manufactures large space structures, including orbital carriers, cargo logistics spacecraft and commercial space station modules built on a shared 4-meter diameter form factor.
Gravitics designs and manufactures large-scale space habitat modules optimized for Starship's payload volume. The StarMax modules use inflatable technology to maximize livable space. The company operates a 100,000 sqft manufacturing facility in Seattle.
Provisional: the latest data refresh looked incomplete and was held, so these scores use inputs measured 2026-10-10.
Rank 33 of 156 ranked companies, shared with 1 other company on the same total
5 of 8 inputs measured · High confidence · 100% of applicable weight backed by data
Not measured: Market value, Reported revenue
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 2026-10-10 (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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2 private rounds on record. Debt, grants, state capital, owner funding and acquisitions are listed under Funding history by class and not added in.
Hiring
22 open roles right now →
Latest government contract
GRAVITICS ORBITAL CARRIER STRATFI
DoD · $7M · Mar 27, 2026
Latest funding round
Series A · $29M
Jan 12, 2026
Rigid-body space station module offering about 400 cubic meters of internal volume; the 8-meter Starship-class version is the primary focus, with 4 and 6 meter variants.
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Compiled Oct 12, 2026 from 6 public records. Every figure links the record it comes from.
Space federal awards
1 award, $6.6M obligated
Awards with activity since Oct 1, 2018, as searched Sep 24, 2026. Awarded Mar 27, 2026 to Mar 27, 2026; most from DoD (1 award)
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 Mar 27, 2026
Latest space award
$6.6M from DoD
GRAVITICS ORBITAL CARRIER STRATFI
Source: USAspending.gov award record
Awarded Mar 27, 2026
Form D notices
2 offerings reported on Form D
Latest filed Sep 18, 2026; first sale Jan 12, 2026; 1 of them last updated by an amendment (D/A)
Each offering counts once: a later amendment (Form D/A) replaces its original. Form D names no round label and no investors. Filings for a merger or SPAC deal are left out.
Latest sourced round
Series A: $28.6M
Reported on Form D filed Sep 18, 2026; the date shown is the first sale
Source: SEC EDGAR
First sale Jan 12, 2026
Sourced rounds on record
2 rounds, $48.6M disclosed
Every round has a disclosed amount
Published rounds with a source link only, on the same rules as the funding tracker. Each round links the source that states its figure; amounts in other currencies are converted to dollars at the rate shown on the funding tracker.
Open roles
22 open roles
90 days ago: before our daily count began (Aug 13, 2026)
Roles on the company's own jobs board, read by our daily sync. Listings posted or paid for on SpaceNexus are not counted. Earlier daily counts include every listed role.
Source: Company jobs board (Greenhouse)
Counted Oct 11, 2026
Department of Defense
1 space award, $6.6M obligated
USAspending.gov award record, Mar 27, 2026
APA
SpaceNexus. (2026, October 12). Gravitics: Company dossier [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/gravitics
Chicago
SpaceNexus. "Gravitics: Company dossier." Data as of October 12, 2026. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/gravitics.
BibTeX
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title = {{Gravitics}: Company dossier},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
howpublished = {\url{https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/gravitics}},
url = {https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/gravitics},
urldate = {2026-10-12},
note = {Data as of 2026-10-12; each fact links its primary source}
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