Radian Aerospace is developing Radian One, a fully reusable horizontal takeoff-and-landing, single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane designed to carry people and light cargo to low Earth orbit with aircraft-like operations. The company emphasizes rapid turnaround—fly, perform a mission, return, refuel, and fly again—to enable high-cadence missions and capabilities not possible with traditional vertical rockets. Radian’s winged configuration targets mission types such as research, in-space manufacturing, terrestrial observation, and rapid global delivery. The company says it is leveraging mature enabling technologies and recent advances in materials science, miniaturization, and manufacturing to make the design feasible. Radian emerged from stealth with $27.5 million in seed funding to advance development of Radian One and has launch service agreements with commercial space stations, in-space manufacturers, satellite and cargo companies, as well as agreements with the U.S. government and selected foreign governments. Founded in 2016 and based in Renton, Washington, Radian intends to mature its core technologies toward aircraft-like flight cadence and lower per-mission costs.

Total raised

$28M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Jan 2022