Apex, founded in 2022 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California, is a spacecraft manufacturer focused on transforming satellite bus production through productization and mass production. The company positions itself as the world's first to offer productized, configurable satellite bus platforms, applying high-rate terrestrial manufacturing techniques to aerospace engineering. This vertically integrated approach blends traditional aerospace engineering with the operational philosophies of the new space sector.
The company offers three satellite bus platforms - Aries, Nova, and Comet - each designed as configurable systems to serve missions across LEO, MEO, and GEO orbits. By standardising and productising spacecraft buses, Apex aims to reduce delivery timelines from years to weeks, addressing what it sees as a bottleneck in satellite deployment.
Apex raised a $200 million Series D funding round, bringing its valuation to $2.3 billion. The company operates in the space industry and aerospace verticals, with technical expertise spanning aerospace engineering, satellite manufacturing, and high-rate production methods.
