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Washington DC company developing GPS-independent autonomous navigation and secure communications technology for spacecraft.
Washington DC company developing GPS-independent autonomous navigation and secure communications technology for spacecraft.
Rank 50 of 96 ranked companies. 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 25 and 69.
4 of 8 inputs measured · Medium confidence · 63% of applicable weight backed by data
Not measured: Headcount, 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 2026-10-22 (UTC) · methodology v6. Every input, its value and percentile · How it is computed
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Sources: Founded, Headquarters, Ownership
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1 private round on record. Debt, grants, state capital, owner funding and acquisitions are listed under Funding history by class and not added in.
Latest government contract
D2P2 SBIR AI-CONTROLLED HIGH-ALTITUDE BALLOONS AND SURFACE VESSEL SDA
DoD · $2M · Apr 23, 2025
Latest funding round
Series A · $6M
Apr 19, 2026
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Compiled Oct 22, 2026 from 4 public records. Every figure links the record it comes from.
Space federal awards
3 awards, $2.7M obligated
Awards with activity since Oct 1, 2018, as searched Oct 5, 2026. Awarded May 17, 2023 to Apr 23, 2025; most from DoD (2 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 5, 2026.
Source: USAspending.gov recipient profile (all awards, not only space)
Latest award Apr 23, 2025
Latest space award
$1.8M from DoD
D2P2 SBIR AI-CONTROLLED HIGH-ALTITUDE BALLOONS AND SURFACE VESSEL SDA
Source: USAspending.gov award record
Awarded Apr 23, 2025
Department of Defense
2 space awards, $2.0M obligated
USAspending.gov award record, Apr 23, 2025
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
1 space award, $750K obligated
USAspending.gov award record, May 17, 2023
APA
SpaceNexus. (2026, October 22). Rhea Space Activity: Company dossier [Data set]. Retrieved October 22, 2026, from https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/rhea-space-activity
Chicago
SpaceNexus. "Rhea Space Activity: Company dossier." Data as of October 22, 2026. Accessed October 22, 2026. https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/rhea-space-activity.
BibTeX
@misc{spacenexus_rheaspaceactivity_2026,
author = {{SpaceNexus}},
title = {{Rhea Space Activity}: Company dossier},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
howpublished = {\url{https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/rhea-space-activity}},
url = {https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/rhea-space-activity},
urldate = {2026-10-22},
note = {Data as of 2026-10-22; each fact links its primary source}
}