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Designer of spacecraft built from its modular SLEGO architecture; projects include eXCITe for DARPA's Phoenix programme and FIRSTSAT, assembled aboard the ISS.
Designer of spacecraft built from its modular SLEGO architecture; projects include eXCITe for DARPA's Phoenix programme and FIRSTSAT, assembled aboard the ISS.
Provisional: the latest data refresh looked incomplete and was held, so these scores use inputs measured 2026-10-10.
Not ranked: Only 44% of applicable weight is backed by data; 50% is needed to rank.
3 of 8 inputs measured · Insufficient data · 44% of applicable weight backed by data
Not measured: Headcount, 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 2026-10-10 (UTC) · methodology v6. Every input, its value and percentile · How it is computed
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. Full disclaimer
Sources: Ownership
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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.
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Compiled Oct 12, 2026 from 4 public records. Every figure links the record it comes from.
Space federal awards
3 awards, $12.3M obligated
Awards with activity since Oct 1, 2018, as searched Oct 3, 2026. Awarded Apr 1, 2019 to Apr 28, 2026; most from DoD (3 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 Oct 3, 2026.
Source: USAspending.gov recipient profile (all awards, not only space)
Latest award Apr 28, 2026
Latest space award
$6.3M from DoD
DESIGN, DEMONSTRATE, AND DEPLOY A SCALABLE LINK-182 SPACE RADIO WITH A POINTING API FOR LEO/GEO COMMS
Source: USAspending.gov award record
Awarded Apr 28, 2026
Satellites owned or operated
0 in orbit of 1 launched
Latest: SIMPL
Payloads GCAT lists with this organisation as owner or operator. "In orbit" is GCAT status O. Counted under GCAT organisation code NWURKS. Catalogue updated Sep 24, 2026.
Satellites built
4 payloads launched, 3 in orbit
Latest: EPIC Athena
Payloads GCAT lists with this organisation as manufacturer. Counted under GCAT organisation code NWURKS. Catalogue updated Sep 24, 2026.
Source: GCAT satellite catalogue
Latest launch Jul 23, 2025
Department of Defense
3 space awards, $12.3M obligated
USAspending.gov award record, Apr 28, 2026
NASA Langley Research Center
Owns one satellite it built (latest EPIC Athena)
GCAT satellite catalogue, Jul 23, 2025
USAF SMC/DoD Space Test Program
Owns one satellite it built (latest EPIC Athena)
GCAT satellite catalogue, Jul 23, 2025
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Owns 2 satellites it built (latest eXCITe)
Satellite data from GCAT (J. McDowell, planet4589.org/space/gcat), CC BY 4.0.
APA
SpaceNexus. (2026, October 12). NovaWurks: Company dossier [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/novawurks
Chicago
SpaceNexus. "NovaWurks: Company dossier." Data as of October 12, 2026. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/novawurks.
BibTeX
@misc{spacenexus_novawurks_2026,
author = {{SpaceNexus}},
title = {{NovaWurks}: Company dossier},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
howpublished = {\url{https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/novawurks}},
url = {https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/novawurks},
urldate = {2026-10-12},
note = {Data as of 2026-10-12; each fact links its primary source}
}