Apex, founded in 2022 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California, positions itself as the world's first spacecraft manufacturer to offer productized, configurable satellite bus platforms. The company focuses on satellite bus manufacturing, aerospace engineering, and spacecraft design, applying lessons from high-rate terrestrial manufacturing to a vertically integrated approach. Its stated aim is to redefine how satellites are designed and built, offering unprecedented speed and reliability.
The company's core products are the Aries, Nova, and Comet platform families, each described as productized and configurable satellite bus platforms. Apex blends traditional aerospace engineering with new space mentalities, targeting the satellite manufacturing and space infrastructure industries, including proliferated constellation systems.
Apex has raised $200 million in Series D funding, reaching a valuation of $2.3 billion. The company claims its manufacturing processes can reduce spacecraft delivery timescales to weeks rather than years.
