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Open Cosmos provides satellite missions as a service, covering design, manufacturing, launch, operations, and data delivery, so customers avoid building in-house space capabilities.
ACTIVEOpen Cosmos designs, builds, launches and operates satellites for customers through its OpenOrbit end-to-end mission offering, and provides access to Earth observation data through its OpenConstellation infrastructure and DataCosmos platform.
Open Cosmos has delivered multiple satellite missions for government agencies, international organizations, and commercial customers. Their vertically integrated model covers mission design, satellite manufacturing at their UK facility, launch procurement, ground segment operations, and downstream data processing.
Rank 41 of 93 ranked companies, shared with 2 other companies on the same total. With the pillars we have not measured for this company filled at the 10th and 90th percentiles of the companies we did measure, and every other company held at its published total, the rank is likely between 27 and 57.
2 of 5 inputs measured · Medium confidence · 75% 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 2026-10-14 (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: Founded, Headquarters, CEO, Employees, Legal name
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3 private rounds on record. Debt, grants, state capital, owner funding and acquisitions are listed under Funding history by class and not added in.
End-to-end satellite mission service including spacecraft design, build, launch, operations, and data delivery.
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Compiled Oct 14, 2026 from 5 public records. Every figure links the record it comes from.
Latest sourced round
Series C: £204.4M (about $275.9M)
Co-led by Lightrock and ETF Partners. Dollar figure converted at 1.34945 GBP/USD (ECB euro foreign exchange reference rates) on Sep 14, 2026
Source: UK Companies House SH01
Announced Sep 14, 2026
Sourced rounds on record
3 rounds, $332.9M 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.
Satellites owned or operated
8 in orbit of 12 launched
Latest: Hyperion GR1
Payloads GCAT lists with this organisation as owner or operator. "In orbit" is GCAT status O. Counted under GCAT organisation codes OCOS, OCOSA, OCOSB. Catalogue updated Sep 24, 2026.
Source: GCAT satellite catalogue
Latest launch Jul 7, 2026
Satellites built
14 payloads launched, 10 in orbit
Latest: Hyperion GR1
Payloads GCAT lists with this organisation as manufacturer. Counted under GCAT organisation codes OCOS, OCOSA, OCOSB. Catalogue updated Sep 24, 2026.
Source: GCAT satellite catalogue
Latest launch Jul 7, 2026
Hellenic Space Centre
Owns one satellite it built (latest Hyperion GR1)
GCAT satellite catalogue, Jul 7, 2026
European Space Agency
Owns 2 satellites it built (latest PhiSat-2)
GCAT satellite catalogue, Aug 16, 2024
Lacuna Space
Owns one satellite it built (latest LS-2)
GCAT satellite catalogue, Mar 22, 2021
Owns one satellite it built (latest 3B5GSAT)
Satellite data from GCAT (J. McDowell, planet4589.org/space/gcat), CC BY 4.0.
APA
SpaceNexus. (2026, October 14). Open Cosmos: Company dossier [Data set]. Retrieved October 14, 2026, from https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/open-cosmos
Chicago
SpaceNexus. "Open Cosmos: Company dossier." Data as of October 14, 2026. Accessed October 14, 2026. https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/open-cosmos.
BibTeX
@misc{spacenexus_opencosmos_2026,
author = {{SpaceNexus}},
title = {{Open Cosmos}: Company dossier},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
howpublished = {\url{https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/open-cosmos}},
url = {https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/open-cosmos},
urldate = {2026-10-14},
note = {Data as of 2026-10-14; each fact links its primary source}
}GCAT satellite catalogue, Mar 22, 2021
Claret Capital Partners
Took part in Series C (Sep 14, 2026)
UK Companies House SH01, Sep 14, 2026
Convex Group
Took part in Series C (Sep 14, 2026)
UK Companies House SH01, Sep 14, 2026
Took part in Series C (Sep 14, 2026)
UK Companies House SH01, Sep 14, 2026
Co-led Series C (Sep 14, 2026)
UK Companies House SH01, Sep 14, 2026
Institut Català de Finances
Took part in Series C (Sep 14, 2026)
UK Companies House SH01, Sep 14, 2026
Lightrock
Co-led Series C (Sep 14, 2026)
UK Companies House SH01, Sep 14, 2026
National Security Strategic Investment Fund
Took part in Series C (Sep 14, 2026)
UK Companies House SH01, Sep 14, 2026
Phoenix Court
Took part in Series C (Sep 14, 2026)
UK Companies House SH01, Sep 14, 2026
ETF Partners, Trill Impact, A&G
Recorded as lead of Series B (Sep 11, 2023)
Payload, Sep 11, 2023
BGF Ventures
Recorded as lead of Series A (Apr 18, 2018)
SpaceNews, Apr 18, 2018