SpaceNexus Federal Space Awards

Space-coded federal obligations by company, Q1 2026

Tracked companies ranked by the federal dollars obligated to them on awards the government codes as space work, with the agency that gave the most and how much rides on their single largest award.

Space-coded federal obligations by company, trailing twelve months

The same ranking over the four quarters ending with this one. Federal obligations are lumpy — one large award can own a quarter — so this is the stabler table and the one to cite.

Awarding agencies for space work, Q1 2026

Where the space money came from. Agency mix is a risk measure: a company whose federal revenue is one agency’s budget line is exposed to that agency’s appropriation in a way a company selling across four is not.

Shares are of the space-coded dollars in this edition, not of the agency’s whole budget. NASA obligated far more to organisations we do not track than to those we do.

Awarding agencies for space work, trailing twelve months

The same agency split over the four quarters ending with this one.

All federal obligations to tracked companies, Q1 2026

The same companies ranked by their ENTIRE federal book, with the share of it the government codes as space. This is the table that separates a pure-play space company from a diversified prime — and the left-hand number is emphatically not a space figure.

Companies winning their first recorded space award

Tracked companies with an attributed space-coded award inside this quarter and none in our records before it. Our records begin 2018-10-01.

"First" means first in our records over a window beginning 2018-10-01 — not first ever. A company that last won space work before that window reads as new here, and that is a limit of the window, not a finding. Absence from the previous 4 quarters alone is not enough: the whole of our history before this quarter is checked.

Space awards against private funding, trailing twelve months

Tracked companies that both won space-coded federal money and raised privately inside the same twelve months. The two columns are different kinds of money and are never added together.

Federal obligations are revenue the company has to earn by delivering; a funding round is capital it sold equity for. Comparing them says something about a company’s mix of customers and backers and nothing about its profitability. Rounds with an undisclosed amount contribute $0.

Awards behind these tables, Q1 2026

Every attributed award obligated inside the quarter, largest first, with the recipient exactly as the government spells it, the code that makes it space work or not, and a link to the award record.

Methodology

• •Every figure is a count, a sum, a share, a maximum or a Herfindahl index over the FederalAward table, which is built from USAspending.gov — the US Treasury’s public record of federal spending. No estimate, model or projection is used anywhere in this release, and every stored award carries the usaspending.gov URL it was read from.
• •Every dollar figure is the SPACE-CODED subset: awards the government itself codes as space work through the award’s own product/service code (space vehicles, space R&D, space transportation and launch) or industry code (space research and technology, satellite telecommunications). Several tracked companies are diversified primes whose federal business is mostly aircraft, missiles and services, and reporting their whole federal book as space would be arithmetically correct and completely misleading. The all-federal figure is published beside the space figure, never instead of it.
• •The space-coded flag deliberately excludes the "guided missile and space vehicle manufacturing" industry codes, which conflate tactical missiles with spacecraft. Space work under those codes almost always carries a space product/service code as well, so the loss is small — but every space figure here is a conservative floor rather than a ceiling.

What this edition can and cannot see

Coverage limits travel with the numbers, here and in every export of them.

• •This edition sees 277 attributed federal awards obligated inside the quarter, of which 12 are coded as space work. Space-coded obligations total $64.3M, against $4.23B of federal obligations of every kind to the same companies.
• •Every dollar figure on this page is the SPACE-CODED subset: awards the government itself codes as space work through the award’s own product/service code (space vehicles, space R&D, space transportation and launch) or its industry code (space research and technology, satellite telecommunications). That flag is set membership over two coded fields on the government record — never a keyword search, a judgement of ours, or a model.
• •The space-coded flag deliberately EXCLUDES the "guided missile and space vehicle manufacturing" industry codes, which conflate tactical missiles with spacecraft. Space work under those codes almost always carries a space product/service code as well, so the loss is small — but it means every space figure here is a conservative floor rather than a ceiling.
• •The all-federal table is published beside the space tables on purpose. For a diversified prime, the all-federal figure is its ENTIRE government book — aircraft, missiles, ships, services — and is not a statement about its space business.

Sources and licences

The same credits are written into every CSV and JSON export of this data, so a downloaded file still names its sources.

• UK Companies House — Company registration data from the UK Companies House register. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Open Government Licence v3.0

Cite this edition

SpaceNexus Federal Space Awards, Q1 2026. SpaceNexus, data as of 2026-03-31. https://spacenexus.us/releases/federal-space-awards/2026-Q1. https://spacenexus.us/releases/federal-space-awards/2026-Q1 (retrieved 2026-09-18).