Private company
Muon Space
Logo: Muon Space, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3
American aerospace company
Muon Space is an American aerospace startup located in Silicon Valley, California. The company was founded in 2021 with the goal of building a climate-monitoring satellite constellation.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
Overview
- Websitewww.muonspace.com
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Muon Space is an American aerospace startup located in Silicon Valley, California. The company was founded in 2021 with the goal of building a climate-monitoring satellite constellation.2
Timeline
- 2021Founded Founded1
Funding
Where the company's money came from, by calendar year: private offerings filed with the SEC, federal grants, loans, contracts and other assistance from USAspending.gov, and PPP loans from the SBA. Each bar links to the records below.
- Federal grants $427.0K
- Federal contracts $14.7M
- Federal grants $427.0K
Figures by year
| Year | Federal grants | Federal contracts | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | – | $7.6M | $7.6M |
| 2025 | $85.5K | $3.9M | $4.0M |
| 2024 | $216.2K | $3.2M | $3.4M |
| 2023 | $125.3K | $74.2K | $199.6K |
Federal awards
Obligated amounts from USAspending.gov4, by calendar year, 2023–2026, for its registration. Obligations are what agencies committed, not always what was paid out. Contracts pay for goods and services; grants, loans and direct payments are assistance. Loans are charted at the face value of the loans listed here. An award’s amount below is its lifetime total, and some began before the years charted.
Largest grants
- Jun 21, 2024$167.4K from National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Science5 To MUON SPACE INC Award 80NSSC24K1309
- Jul 21, 2023$157.2K from National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Science6 To MUON SPACE INC Award 80NSSC23K0849
- Sep 1, 2024$99.8K from National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Science7 To MUON SPACE INC Award 80NSSC24K1407
Largest contracts
- Sep 29, 2026$3.2M from National Aeronautics and Space Administration: The purpose of this to is procure data from muon for evaluation by csda.8 To MUON SPACE INC Award 80HQTR26F0018
- Nov 18, 2024$3.0M from Department of the Air Force: F2d-13894 - muon space inc. the overall scope of this award is for multi-mission eo/ir instrument optical assembly prototype for cloud chara9 To MUON SPACE INC Award FA254125CB012
- Aug 3, 2026$2.5M from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: For this pilot study, noaa will use pilot study data to assess the quality and impact of available commercial multi-spectral imagery observa10 To MUON SPACE INC Award 1332KP26P0021
- Sep 10, 2025$2.0M from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Commercial weather data pilot (cwdp) ocean surface winds pilot study11 To MUON SPACE INC Award 1332KP25P0039
- Jul 15, 2025$1.9M from Department of the Air Force: Muon isproposingtoanalyze,designandtestthemodificationstoprovidenear-persistent coverage utilizingamodifiedversionofthetrl-7firesatpayload.12 To MUON SPACE INC Award FA254125CB078
Links
- Websitewww.muonspace.com1
- X (Twitter)x.com/muonspace1
- LinkedInwww.linkedin.com/company/muon-space1
- WikipediaMuon Space
- WikidataQ120107960
Sources
The numbers on this page point here. Each one links to the record it came from.
- 1WikidataMuon Space on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaMuon Space on Wikipedia
- 3Wikimedia CommonsMuon Space logo by Muon Space, Public domain
- 4USAspending.govUSAspending.gov recipient profile: MUON SPACE INC
- 5USAspending.gov80NSSC24K1309: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- 6USAspending.gov80NSSC23K0849: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- 7USAspending.gov80NSSC24K1407: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- 8USAspending.gov80HQTR26F0018: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- 9USAspending.govFA254125CB012: Department of the Air Force
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- 12USAspending.govFA254125CB078: Department of the Air Force