What Agile Space Industries does

Agile Space Industries is a US-based in-space chemical propulsion company founded in 2019 (with engineering roots dating to 2009 via Advanced Mobile Propulsion Test) and headquartered in Durango, Colorado, with additional facilities in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania and Tulsa, Oklahoma. The company designs, additively manufactures, hot-fire tests, and delivers rocket thrusters and engines for spacecraft, with a product portfolio spanning the A110 small thruster, the A2200 2,200 lbf engine, the AX19 preburner, LE144, the M4 thruster, and integrated propulsion packages (Moab, Yosemite, Ticonderoga), plus zero-slosh tank technology. Agile owns Agile Additive (formed via its acquisition of Tronix3D), giving it in-house metal additive-manufacturing capability for refractory-alloy thruster components, a capability the company leverages to compress part count, lead time, and iteration cycles relative to traditionally machined hardware.

The company serves a mix of civil space (NASA and NASA-funded lander programs), aerospace primes (Sierra Space, Lockheed Martin, Firefly Aerospace), international commercial landers (ispace, The Exploration Company), and national-security-adjacent customers (True Anomaly, Astrobotic). The A110 became the first US-built thruster qualified for lunar landers since Apollo, and the company has accumulated more than 8,000 hot-fire tests, supporting AS9100D, ITAR, and ISO 9001 certifications. Go-to-market is project-based: Agile sells or licenses qualified thruster and engine hardware for specific mission programs, with revenue tied to design-ins, qualification milestones, and delivery of flight units rather than recurring subscriptions. Total disclosed funding is approximately $39M across seed, debt, and a $17M oversubscribed Series A led by Caruso Ventures and Howdy Partners (closed February 2026), which the company will use to scale production capacity and complete the Tulsa Space Test Center.

Name

Agile Space Industries

Legal name

Agile Space Industries, Inc.

Website

https://agilespaceindustries.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Agile Space Industries designs, additively manufactures, and hot-fire tests in-space chemical propulsion thrusters and engines for NASA, aerospace primes, and commercial space companies serving lunar, deep space, and national security missions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Aerospace Propulsion Systems

NAICS

Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Propulsion Unit and Propulsion Unit Parts Manufacturing (336415), Other Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (336419)

SIC

Guided Missiles & Space Vehicles & Parts (3760)

akta.pro primary industry

Spacecraft Propulsion (In-Space) & Thrusters (IMABACAE)

akta.pro secondary industry

Rocket Engines (Liquid) (IMABADAE)

Keywords

• In-space chemical propulsion
• Rocket thruster manufacturing
• Metal additive manufacturing
• Hot-fire testing services
• Lunar lander propulsion

Headquarters

HQ city

Durango

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Custom Propulsion System Development and Delivery: Design, development, and delivery of custom propulsion systems for space applications including lunar landers, satellites, and spacecraft. These are project-based contracts with government agencies (NASA) and commercial space companies.
2. Component Thruster Sales: Sale of additively manufactured thruster components including A110 and A2200 models to customers in the commercial and government space sectors.
3. Testing Services: Hot-fire testing and qualification services for propulsion systems, supporting customers like Firefly with test stand capabilities for their lunar programs.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Agile Space Industries designs, develops, manufactures, and delivers in-space chemical propulsion systems including bipropellant thrusters, throttling engines, preburners, and integrated propulsion systems for lunar landers, satellites, and deep space vehicles. The company leverages proprietary metal additive manufacturing and in-house hot-fire testing infrastructure to compress development timelines from years to weeks. It also provides hot-fire testing services and operates the Space Test Center vacuum test facility serving commercial and government customers.

Product overview

Agile Space Industries is an in-space chemical propulsion company offering a portfolio of rocket thrusters, engines, and propulsion systems. Core products include the A110 Lunar RCS Thruster, A2200 Throttling Moon Lander Engine, LE144 Deep Space Thruster, AX19 Preburner, M4 Thruster, and Moab/Yosemite/Ticonderoga propulsion systems. The company operates Agile Additive (formerly Tronix3D) as a subsidiary providing metal 3D printing services. Supporting services include hot-fire testing facilities, the Animas/Space Test Center vacuum testing capability, and the Mobile Payload Processing Center. Products are chemical propulsion systems operating on hydrazine and hydrazine-based constituents, designed, 3D printed, and hot-fired in-house for lunar landers, deep space vehicles, and orbital spacecraft.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• A110 Thruster Bipropellant thruster for lunar lander reaction control system. Uses hydrazine/monomethylhydrazine blend optimized for high delta-V missions. Qualified for attitude control during lunar descent.
• A2200 Engine Throttling moon lander engine with regeneratively cooled combustion chamber and variable area pintle injector. Capable of deep throttling to 50% thrust, developed for ispace US Apex 1.0 lander.
• LE144 Thruster Dual-mode bipropellant engine operating on hydrazine and MON3. Features regeneratively cooled combustion chamber enabling near-undetectable thermal signature. Sold for beyond-LEO transportation and servicing vehicles.
• AX19 Preburner Hydrazine-rich preburner designed for Sierra Space VRM5500-H engine. Enables gas-gas injection for high combustion efficiency. Developed and delivered in 19 weeks.
• M4 Thruster Small thruster product in Agile's portfolio for in-space propulsion applications.
• Moab Propulsion System One of three new propulsion systems announced by Agile, designed for in-space applications.
• Yosemite Propulsion System One of three new propulsion systems announced by Agile, designed for in-space applications.
• Ticonderoga Propulsion System Propulsion system product announced by Agile as part of 22 contracts signed in 2023 including tank and propulsion system sales.
• DS110 Thruster Thruster product variant in the 100-series family for in-space propulsion.
• Zero-Slosh Piston Tanks Piston tanks for storable propellants designed to eliminate propellant sloshing during spacecraft maneuvers.
• Chemical-Electric Dual-Mode Propulsion Combined chemical and electric propulsion system leveraging both technologies for enhanced mission flexibility.
• Hot-Fire Testing Services In-house hypergolic test stands for propulsion development and qualification. Agile has conducted over 8,000 hotfire tests with vacuum-based environment simulation.
• Space Test Center / Animas Facility Commercial test fire facility capable of testing engines over 300 pounds thrust in vacuum environment. Located in Durango, CO. The only known commercial facility capable of testing engines more than 300 pounds in a vacuum-based environment to simulate space.

Quantifiable outcome

• Years of development compressed into weeks
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• 6K AdditivecoreTechnology or IntegrationTechnology partnership where 6K Additive provides aerospace-grade metal powders used in Agile Space Industries' additive manufacturing processes for 3D printing propulsion components.
• Tronix3DcoreOthersAcquired company that operates as Agile Additive subsidiary, bringing additional additive manufacturing capabilities and ISO 9001 certification.
• Sierra SpacecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic collaboration on AX19 preburner development for Sierra Space's VRM5500-H engine powering the Dream Chaser spaceplane. Represents deep technical partnership on critical propulsion component.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Aerojet Rocketdyne (L3Harris): L3Harris' Aerojet Rocketdyne segment is the dominant US supplier of liquid bipropellant in-space propulsion engines and thrusters for civil, defense and commercial space - the closest large-scale analog to Agile Space Industries' core offering.
• Ursa Major Technologies: Ursa Major develops additively manufactured liquid propulsion engines (Hadley, Hadley Heavy, Vinny) for space launch and in-space applications, directly overlapping Agile's metal-AM bipropellant thruster niche.
• Benchmark Space Systems: Benchmark builds in-space chemical propulsion systems (e.g., Halcyon, Apsara, Vanguard) for satellite operators and emerging in-space mobility missions, competing with Agile's A110/LE144-class thrusters.

Broad incumbents

• Rocket Lab USA: Rocket Lab's Space Systems division produces in-space propulsion (including the Curie, Rutherford and S200/S500 lines) and broader spacecraft buses, making it a broad incumbent in adjacent in-space mobility categories.
• Northrop Grumman Propulsion Systems: Northrop Grumman operates established liquid and solid propulsion lines for satellites, interceptors and launch vehicles (e.g., various bipropellant thrusters on GEOStar and MEV), representing a much larger incumbent in chemical in-space propulsion.
• Blue Origin: Blue Origin manufactures large-scale rocket engines (BE-3PM, BE-4) and has pursued additive manufacturing of propulsion components, making it a broad incumbent with overlapping technical capabilities in AM liquid engines.

Emerging players

• Relativity Space: Relativity uses large-format metal additive manufacturing (Stargate) to build rockets and propulsion components, pursuing the same AM-for-aerospace-propulsion thesis as Agile Space Industries but at launch-vehicle scale.
• Morpheus Space: Morpheus Space develops smallsat in-space propulsion with novel thruster architectures, overlapping with Agile's smaller thruster products in the commercial smallsat and lunar mobility adjacencies.
• Phantom Space Corporation: Phantom Space is an emerging launch and propulsion developer pursuing smallsat orbital access, with overlapping ambitions in low-cost chemical propulsion and additive manufacturing.

Others

• Moog Inc. (Space & Defense): Moog supplies precision propulsion components, valves, and thruster assemblies for spacecraft and launch vehicles, making it a relevant enabling/incumbent supplier in Agile's upstream and adjacent value chain.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles11 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds6 records

Investors9 records

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Investments

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