Orbit Fab

Airbus Defence and Space and Orbit Fab are working together on satellite refuelling: Airbus integrates Orbit Fab’s RAFTI architecture and collaborates on in-orbit refuelling capabilities to support Airbus spacecraft operations.

Airbus Defence and Space collaborates with Orbit Fab on the RADICAL project (ESA ARTES/UK Space Agency funded) to assess integration of Orbit Fab’s RAFTI refuelling valve into future Airbus GEO satellites, announced March 2026.

Orbit Fab supplies refuelling interface technology (RAFTI) and in-orbit refuelling services to Airbus Defence and Space as part of a collaboration to refuel Airbus satellites and enable life-extension for Airbus spacecraft.

Neutron Star Systems and Orbit Fab announced a partnership to support sustainable propulsion adoption (e.g., green propellant LMP-103S) and to integrate refuelling services with Neutron Star’s propulsion technologies to enable safer, sustainable satellite operations.

Neutron Star Systems entered a cooperative agreement with Orbit Fab for co-development of satellite refuelling solutions using green propellants, announced April 2022.

Orbit Fab announced a cooperation with Neutron Star Systems: NSS supplies its SUPREME electric thruster technology and propellant‑agnostic propulsion capability to support Orbit Fab's refuelling business and demonstrations (NSS is a propulsion technology supplier/partner to Orbit Fab).

Orbit Fab and Neutron Star Systems announced a partnership: Orbit Fab provides on-orbit refuelling infrastructure (RAFTI and tanker services) that complements NSS's SUPREME propellant‑flexible electric thruster, enabling refuelable satellite architectures and demonstrations together.

ClearSpace has received support from Orbit Fab in the design of its CLEAR mission so the service vehicle can be refuelled and reused; Orbit Fab’s refuelling architecture and fuel-transfer expertise directly enable ClearSpace’s vehicle reusability.

ClearSpace and Orbit Fab signed a memorandum of understanding to combine Orbit Fab’s refuelling architecture with ClearSpace’s rendezvous and docking technology to enable in-orbit refuelling of ClearSpace’s service vehicles (e.g., CLEAR mission) and extend mission reuse.

ClearSpace is partnering with Orbit Fab to integrate RAFTI refueling interfaces on ClearSpace spacecraft and to develop an in‑space refueling service; ClearSpace will host Orbit Fab hardware and provide spacecraft hosting/operations to enable refueling services.

ClearSpace maintains a multi-faceted strategic partnership and MoU with Orbit Fab to co-develop enabling technologies, pair Orbit Fab fuel depots with ClearSpace shuttles, and integrate refuelling on ClearSpace missions (including UK Space Agency-funded CLEAR/ADR), building on prior collaboration, announced January 2024.

Orbit Fab provides refuelling architecture and planned fuel delivery services to support ClearSpace’s missions (e.g., CLEAR) by enabling refuelling and reuse of ClearSpace service vehicles.

Orbit Fab partners with ClearSpace (alongside others) on the REFUEL.ME refuelling mission extension building on CLEAR (UK-funded, announced ~2024).

Orbit Fab supplies RAFTI refuelling ports/interfaces and equips ClearSpace’s debris removal/servicer satellites (including CLEAR mission) with refuelling capabilities to enable reuse and extended operations under UK Space Agency funding.

Orbit Fab supplies RAFTI refueling hardware and hydrazine refueling capability and is partnering with ClearSpace to integrate RAFTI on ClearSpace spacecraft to develop an in‑space refueling service (partnership announced in coverage of a joint refueling effort).

Benchmark Space Systems supplied a monopropellant HTP Halcyon propulsion system for Orbit Fab's Tenzing mission, which debuted Orbit Fab’s RAFTI refueling kit and was launched aboard the SpaceX Transporter-2 rideshare mission in June 2021.

Benchmark and Orbit Fab partnered to integrate Benchmark propulsion systems with Orbit Fab refueling technologies — Benchmark supplies propulsion capabilities that can be paired with Orbit Fab’s refueling infrastructure for customers, and the two firms coordinated product offerings.

Benchmark Space Systems and Orbit Fab announced a partnership to integrate Benchmark’s propulsion systems with Orbit Fab’s in-space refuelling technologies, bundling propulsion + refuelling as a product offering for satellite integrators and operators.

Benchmark Space Systems partners with Orbit Fab on in-space refuelling technologies development.

Orbit Fab and Benchmark Space Systems entered a partnership to integrate in‑space refueling technologies and bundle refueling + propulsion offerings, enabling Benchmark to offer refueling-capable mission architectures and customers to have refuelable platforms.

Impulse Space supports Orbit Fab’s 2026 GEO refueling mission using Mira OTV (DIU-funded).