Dawn Aerospace

Output & shipments

• Deliveries

  Dawn reports delivery of at least four complete spacecraft propulsion systems per month in its 2026 conference abstract. - Spacecraft propulsion assemblies; conference2026 disclosure, exact publication/as-of date unknown

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Supply chain relationships

• Aule Space

  Outbound - robotic motion components - Dawn Aerospace will supply a customized SatDrive propulsion system for Aule Space docking mission

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• 2026-06-16 - Series B - $25M - Dawn Aerospace closes US$25 million Series B

  Dawn Aerospace closed a Series B led by Balerion Space Ventures at a US$195 million post-money valuation. - source: dawnaerospace.com

• Aera Climate and Frontier Fund - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-17
• Alpha Funds - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-17
• ANA Future Frontier Fund - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-17
• Balerion Space Ventures - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-17
• Crosscourt - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-17
• Gaingels - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-17
• GD1 - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-17
• Green Eight Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-17
• Icehouse Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-17
• Mana Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-17
• Markus Hildinger - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-17
• Michael Hohenester - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-17
• NZVC - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-17
• Seven Peak Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-17
• Shasta Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-17
• Tim Ferriss - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-17
• Yishan Wong - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-17

• Stefan Powell - Co-Founder and CEO - Co-founded Dawn Aerospace in 2017 and serves as chief executive.
• Jeroen Wink - Co-Founder and CRO - Co-founded Dawn Aerospace in 2017 and serves as chief revenue officer.
• James Powell - Co-Founder - Co-founded Dawn Aerospace in 2017.
• Robert Werner - Co-Founder - Co-founded Dawn Aerospace in 2017.
• Tobias Knop - Co-Founder - Co-founded Dawn Aerospace in 2017.
• Anna Kominik - Independent Director - Serves as an independent director of Dawn Aerospace.
• Barnaby Marshall - Investor Director - Serves as an investor director on Dawn Aerospace’s board.

Events

• 2026-09-30 - Partnership - Dawn Aerospace completes CNES refuellable-spacecraft study

  The assessment covered two reference spacecraft platforms, including architecture, operating scenarios and economic viability. Dawn contributed its DFT interface, combining mechanical docking and propellant transfer in a single port. The work produced initial system-level requirements and integration concepts for chemical and electric propulsion.

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• 2026-09-29 - Org Change - Dawn Aerospace begins German expansion

  The expansion builds on collaboration with German partners including Zentrum für Telematik. Dawn is recruiting business-development staff to support multi-stakeholder sovereign space programmes.

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• 2026-09-09 - Commercial Order - Aule Space signs binding SatDrive hardware contract with Dawn Aerospace

  The agreement converts the companies’ earlier memorandum into a binding hardware contract. Aule’s spacecraft is intended to dock with a passive satellite that provides no cooperative docking interface or active rendezvous assistance. Dawn will deliver a nitrous-oxide-and-propene propulsion system ahead of the planned demonstration mission.

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• 2026-09-01 - Commercial Order - Dawn Aerospace secures Astral Materials microgravity campaign

  The agreement covers up to 100 flights over two years at Oklahoma’s Infinity One Spaceport operations site. The programme will test materials and semiconductor manufacturing hardware before longer-duration orbital missions. Aurora’s stated four-hour turnaround is intended to support repeated hardware iterations within a day.

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• 2026-06-16 - Funding - Dawn Aerospace closes US$25 million Series B

  The financing will expand commercial and operational teams in the United States and Europe. Participants include ANA Future Frontier Fund, Mana Ventures, Green Eight Capital, Seven Peak Ventures and existing investors. Aurora targets twice-daily flights above the Kármán line in 2027; the Loop refuelling network targets an in-orbit demonstration in 2028.

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Relationships

• Astral Materials

  Planned Aurora Flight Customer - Astral Materials selected Dawn Aerospace for a planned Aurora test campaign of up to 100 flights over two years.

• Aule Space signs binding SatDrive hardware contract with Dawn Aerospace

  2026-09-09 · Order / contract · Aule Space contracted Dawn Aerospace to supply a customized SatDrive propulsion system for an autonomous rendezvous, proximity-operations and docking demonstration.

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• Dawn Aerospace secures Astral Materials microgravity campaign

  2026-09-01 · Order / contract · Astral Materials selected Dawn Aerospace’s Aurora spaceplane for a planned campaign to test microgravity furnace hardware.

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