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Astrobotic Technology

HQ Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaFounded 2007201-500 employeesUpdated

Deliver your technology to space!

StartupSpace, launch and counterspace
Website
Total raised
~$2.5M
4 rounds
Last round
~$2.5M
Seed · May 11, 2016
Prime obligations
$572M
Since FY2008
Prime awards
91
Every award since FY2008
Systems
3
Capabilities
1

News3

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Federal Prime Contracts$572M obligated · FY2008–FY2026

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Obligated
$572M
FY2008–FY2026
Contract actions
437
91 awards
Peak year
FY2022
$118M
Top buyer
NASA
98% of obligations
Obligations by fiscal yearLast 5 full years avg $67.5MFaded: FY2026 so far; DoD publishes actions about 90 days late.
FY2008: $97K · 1 actionsFY2010: $173K · 4 actionsFY2011: $1.0M · 8 actionsFY2012: $525K · 9 actionsFY2013: $699K · 7 actionsFY2014: $861K · 3 actionsFY2015: $375K · 4 actionsFY2016: $754K · 3 actionsFY2017: $125K · 1 actionsFY2018: $1.4M · 6 actionsFY2019: $41.6M · 11 actionsFY2020: $116M · 32 actionsFY2021: $102M · 41 actionsFY2022: $118M · 60 actionsFY2023: $76.4M · 65 actionsFY2024: $9.2M · 77 actionsFY2025: $32.3M · 52 actionsFY2026 (to date): $71.6M · 53 actions
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Obligations by fiscal year
Fiscal yearObligatedActionsAwards
FY2026 (to date)$71.6M5327
FY2025$32.3M5225
FY2024$9.2M7732
FY2023$76.4M6527
FY2022$118M6024
FY2021$102M4120
FY2020$116M3213
FY2019$41.6M117
FY2018$1.4M64
FY2017$125K11
FY2016$754K33
FY2015$375K44
FY2014$861K33
FY2013$699K74
FY2012$525K94
FY2011$1.0M84
FY2010$173K42
FY2008$97K11

Top buyers

  1. NASA$560M 98%
  2. U.S. Air Force$12.2M 2.1%

What they sell (PSC)

  1. R&D- Space: Flight (Commercialized)$414M 72%
  2. Space R&D Services; Space Flight, Research and Supporting Activities; R&D Administrative Expenses$48.9M 8.5%
  3. General Science & Technology R&D SVCS; General Science & Technology; R&D Administrative Expenses$39.6M 6.9%
  4. Space R&D Services; Space Flight, Research and Supporting Activities; Applied Research$39.5M 6.9%
  5. Space R&D Services; Space Flight, Research and Supporting Activities; Basic Research$10.7M 1.9%
  6. Transportation/Travel/Relocation- Transportation: Space Transportation/Launch$5.3M 0.9%
  7. National Defense R&D Services; Defense-Related Activities; Applied Research$4.9M 0.9%
  8. National Defense R&D Services; Atomic Energy Defense Activities; Applied Research$3.5M 0.6%
  9. National Defense R&D Services; Department of Defense - Military; Applied Research$1.7M 0.3%
  10. National Defense R&D Services; Department of Defense - Military; Experimental Development$1.7M 0.3%
  11. General Science and Technology R&D Services; General Science and Technology; Basic Research$850K 0.1%
  12. Special Studies/Analysis- Aeronautical/Space$600K 0.1%
  13. National Defense R&D Services; Department of Defense - Military; Basic Research$249K 0.0%
  14. Combination and Miscellaneous Instruments$151K 0.0%
  15. General Science & Technology R&D SVCS; General Science & Technology; Experimental Development$150K 0.0%
  16. All other$205K 0.0%

Industry (NAICS)

  1. Nonscheduled Chartered Freight Air Transportation$468M 82%
  2. Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (Except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)$95.5M 17%
  3. Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (Except Biotechnology)$5.0M 0.9%
  4. All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services$1.7M 0.3%
  5. Research and Development in Nanotechnology$1.7M 0.3%

Where the work is done

  1. Pennsylvania$534M 93%
  2. Texas$24.2M 4.2%
  3. California$13.9M 2.4%

Contract pricing

  1. Firm Fixed Price$564M 99%
  2. Cost Plus Fixed Fee$8.0M 1.4%

Competition

  1. Full and Open Competition After Exclusion of Sources$521M 91%
  2. Full and Open Competition$50.6M 8.8%
  3. Not Competed$151K 0.0%
  4. Competed Under SAP$109K 0.0%

Largest awards10

  • Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (Viper) Delivery · NASA · USAspending ↗
    $314M
  • Lunar Surface Transportation Services - Nasa-provided Lunar Payload (Nplp) Delivery · NASA · USAspending ↗
    $100M
  • Finalize the Mission Design, Execute Long Lead Procurements to Support the Aggressive Schedule, and Deliver All Base Milestones and Products. · NASA · USAspending ↗
    $24.1M
  • Finalize the Mission Design, Execute Long Lead Procurements to Support the Aggressive Schedule, and Deliver All Base Milestones and Products. · NASA · USAspending ↗
    $24.1M
  • Sbir Phase III Xogdor Vehicle Enhancements · NASA · USAspending ↗
    $14.0M
  • The Contractor Shall Fabricate Long Lead Hardware for Primary Moonranger Components, Create Mission Plan, Revise Architectures for Navigation and Autonomy, Release Beta Version of Mission Navigation and Autonomy Software Modules. · NASA · USAspending ↗
    $8.0M
  • Work Delivers A Trl 9 Terrain Relative Navigation and Visual Velocimetry Sensor Trn Sensor Product by Demonstrating the Trn Sensor Operation on A Lunar Lander Mission. Specifically the Works Seeks to Develop A Commercial Terrain Relative Navigation (Trn) System for Lunar and Planetary Landers. This System Consists of A High Performance Stand-alone Trn and Visual Velocimetry Vv Sensor or Trn Sensor and Two Critical Tools Needed to Provide Trn As A Multi-mission Commercial Product: A Fast, High Fidelity Lunar Simulator, and An Accurate Lunar Map Generator. the Low Swap 2 U, 2.5 Kg, 15 W Peak Passive Optical Trn Sensor Will Enable Spacecraft to Land Precisely Within 100 Meters of Any Illuminated Destination on Mapped Planetary Surfaces, Enabling A Broad Range of High Impact Science and Commercial Missions. · NASA · USAspending ↗
    $8.0M
  • Flight Demonstration of A Reusable Suborbital Vehicle for Terrestrial Testing of Landing Technologies · NASA · USAspending ↗
    $7.3M
  • Design, Prototype, and Test Lunar Vertical Solar Array Technology (Lvsat), A Solar Panel System Designed to Provide 10 Kilowatts of Electrical Power and Be Robotically Deployable at the South Pole of the Lunar Surface. · NASA · USAspending ↗
    $6.6M
  • Ultra-fast Proximity Charging for Critical Space Applications. Wibotic, Bosch, the University of Washington, NASA Glenn Will Develop A Space Qualified Proximity Charging Product Line to Support A Variety of Future Commercial and Government Missions · NASA · USAspending ↗
    $5.6M

Awards marked “Outside DoD, DHS, DOE and NASA” come from the contractor-first USAspending search of this company's awards at every agency and are not in sector totals. Awards of DoD, DHS, DOE and NASA under $10,000 net are counted in totals but not listed; find them on USAspending ↗.

Signed obligations on federal prime contracts (award types A–D) from USAspending, FY2008 through Oct 9, 2026. Obligations are money the government committed, not company revenue, and include de-obligations. Subcontracts and grants are excluded. Matching is by registered UEI.

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Federal Obligations by Year (All USAspending, as Reported at the Time)

Astrobotic Technology federal obligations by fiscal year
Fiscal yearDirect: assistanceDirect: contractsTotal
FY2026 (partial)—$71.6M$71.6M
FY2025$359K$32.3M$32.7M
FY2024$0$9.2M$9.2M
FY2023$0$76.4M$76.4M
FY2022$650K$118M$118M
FY2021—$102M$102M
FY2020—$116M$116M
FY2019—$41.6M$41.6M
FY2018—$1.4M$1.4M
FY2017—$125K$125K
FY2016−$0$754K$754K
FY2015$64K$375K$439K
FY2014$173K$861K$1.0M
FY2013$536K$699K$1.2M
FY2012$237K$621K$859K
FY2011—$1.0M$1.0M
FY2010—$173K$173K
FY2008—$97K$97K

Direct is the company's own reviewed UEIs. Reported by USAspending is subsidiaries as reported by USAspending: recipients that name this company as their parent, not yet reviewed ownership.

Directly matched recipients (up to 12)

UEIs matched to this organization, largest obligations first. Subsidiary recipients are not included in this list; their attributed obligations can appear in the company totals above.

Each action is credited by the ownership basis shown in its column. Reported-parent rows count for Astrobotic Technology only for the period a subsidiary reported Astrobotic Technology as its parent; reviewed links follow their reviewed dates. Net of de-obligations; these are obligations, not ceilings. They come from the whole USAspending baseline (every recipient size, contracts and assistance) and are a separate view from the curated contract totals on this page. FY2026 and later are partial, as on Markets.

Funding4 rounds · ~$2.5M

Equity raised
~$2.5M
Debt, secondaries & grants
~$4.4M
Latest
~$2.5MSeed · May 11, 2016
Cumulative raised$2.5M
Mar 31, 2009May 11, 2016
  • Seed
    Led by Space Angels
    With Space Capital
    ~$2.5M
    May 11, 2016
  • Convertible
    $30K
    Mar 31, 2009
  • Seed
    Undisclosed
    Jan 1, 2009
  • Grant
    Speculative
    ~$4.4M
    2023

Raised counts equity rounds; debt, secondary sales and grants are totaled separately. Amounts in other currencies are converted at the announcement month's average rate. A ~ marks an estimated or converted amount.

Systems3

Newest unveiled first. Systems that belong to a government program link to the program page, where variants, costs and contracts are.

Capabilities1

  • Space, launch and counterspace
    Developer
    classify_sectors run 37, haiku, taxonomy 2026-10-18b: Contracts payload delivery on lunar missions; no defense use is stated.
    —Reported

Maturity and TRL describe this organization's work; the field-wide maturity is on each technology's page.

People2

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People
PersonRole
John ThorntonCEO
Red WhittakerCEO

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Sources7

Profile2

  1. 1
    NewsVoyager to acquire lunar lander developer Astrobotic

    Jun 2, 2026 · Supports Organization

    “Astrobotic's Griffin lunar lander will deliver Astrolab's FLIP lunar rover. Credit: Astrobotic”
  2. 2
    DatabaseSixth-Domain public startups directory

    Sixth-Domain · Supports Organization · country, Organization · kind

    “{"country": "USA", "hq_iso2": "US", "id": "4d014b7a-48a5-4983-89fa-794f9786d894"}”

Systems1

  1. 3
    CompanyPittsburgh Aerospace Company | Astrobotic Technology

    Astrobotic Technology · Supports Organization · description, Organization · name, Organization · website, System

    “Deliver your technology to space! Astrobotic is contracting payloads for lunar missions. Configure your mission, reserve your flight, and learn about our technology.”

Funding4

  1. 4
    NewsThe race to the moon is underway as Astrobotic raises $2.5 million

    TechCrunch · May 11, 2016 · Supports Funding round · amount

    “Astrobotic Technology, the company that plans to deliver payloads to the moon, has completed a $2.5 million seed round led by Space Angels Network.”
  2. 5
    DatabaseAstrobotic Technology - Tracxn company profile

    Tracxn · Supports Funding round

    “made their first investment in Astrobotic on May 11, 2016 in its Seed round”
  3. 6
    DatabaseAstrobotic Technology - LinkedIn company profile

    LinkedIn · Supports Funding round, Organization · employee range, Organization · founded year, Organization · hq city, Organization · hq region, Organization · linkedin url, Organization · ownership, Role

    “funding round: Seed Round, 2009-01-01”
  4. 7
    DatabaseAstrobotic Technology - Owler company profile

    Owler · Supports Funding round · amount, Organization · ownership

    “Astrobotic's last funding round was on Nov 2023 for a total of $4.4M.”

Government identifiers1

UEI
JAQ3W2MGVNV1
ASTROBOTIC TECHNOLOGY INC
Checked Oct 21, 2026

Identifiers are matched to this legal entity; related companies may hold different registrations.

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