Participated · Seed · Aug 2025

Space Kinetic is a space and missile defense company developing a propellant-free electromechanical payload-deployment system. Its core innovation is a patented mechanism that ejects a diverse range of smaller payloads at high velocities from a host satellite without firing a thruster. The company was founded in 2022 by Scott Ziegler and Ryan Sullivan from a garage-built prototype and a springboard from the New Mexico Lab-Embedded Entrepreneur Program at Los Alamos National Laboratory. It is a cleared U.S. national security innovator headquartered in Albuquerque. Space Kinetic raised $12 million in seed funding, which establishes its current financing position. The company targets multi-billion-dollar space superiority and missile defense mission markets amid rising geopolitical tensions.