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Espace Inc

Hull, MA · Aerospace · Public

Miniaturized ion-electrospray thrusters for precision spacecraft attitude and pointing control

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Sector
Aerospace
Headquarters
Hull, MA
Total capital
$6.4M
Federal grants
$1.7M
3 awards · 2021–2024
Rank in peer group#23 of 91
Private capital raised
None on recordNo Form D filings on SEC EDGAR. Some raises are not filed.
Federal contracts
$4.6M
14 awards · NASA, Defense
Rank in Aerospace#349 of 1335
Granted patents
None on recordNo USPTO grants. Applications publish after 18 months.

Capital timeline

20082012201620202024FEDERAL ↑EQUITY ↓Cumulative $6.4M$856K$937K$750K$599K$850K$850K
20082012201620202024FEDERAL ↑EQUITY ↓Cumulative $6.4M$856K$937K$850K$850K

Latest events

  • Federal contractNASA · Technical Services (circuit Board Layout)$19K
  • Federal grantNASA · Phase II · SBIR Phase II, Precision Ion Nano Thruster$850K
  • Federal contractNASA · SBIR Phase II, Precision Ion Nano Thruster$850K
  • Federal grantNASA · Phase I · Precision Ion Nano Thruster$150K
  • Federal contractNASA · Phase III$599K
  • Federal contractNASA · Technician Services (circuit Board Layout)$6K
  • Federal grantNASA · Phase II · Bimodal Ion-Chemical Thruster System$750K
Show 10 earlier federal awards
  • Federal contractNASA · Bimodal Ion-chemical Thruster System. Performance Demonstration Of High Payoff Propulsion Technology: Rotating Detonation Engine And Dual Mode Ionic Liquid$937K
  • Federal contractNASA · Bimodal Ion-chemical Thruster System$124K
  • Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf SBIR Phase III Contract For "precision Electrospray Thruster Assembly"$98K
  • Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf Precision Electrospray Thruster Assembly (peta) SBIR Phase III Base Period Only$100K
  • Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf Other Function - New Low Cost, Low Volume, Low Power, Rugged Electrospray Thrusters Will Be Ideal As Actuators For Precision Thrusting, If Provided With Precision High Voltage Power Supplies. The Small Thrusters Show Minimum Thrusts Of 1.2 Nanonewton, And Thrusts Scalable In A Wide Range To Hundreds Of Micronewtons, With An Isp Of 3500 Sec. We Propose To Develop And Test A High-precision High-voltage Power Supply Optimized For Fine Control Of The Thrusters, And Designed To Support A$856K
  • Federal contractNASA · New Low Cost, Low Volume, Low Power, Rugged Electrospray Thrusters Will Be Ideal As Actuators For Precision Thrusting, If Provided With Precision High Voltage Power Supplies. The Small Thrusters Show Minimum Thrusts Of 1.2 Nanonewton, And Thrusts Scalable In A Wide Range To Hundreds Of Micronewtons, With An Isp Of 3500 Sec. We Propose In Phase I To Develop, Test And Characterize With Electrospray Thrusters A High-precision High-voltage Power Supply Optimized For Fine Control Of The Thrusters, An$100K
  • Federal contractDefense · Darpa SBIR Phase I$99K
  • Federal contractNASA · The Phase I Effort Demonstrated, Through Actual Development And Tests With A Spacecraft System, The Technical And Programmatic Feasibility Of Developing, Within The SBIR Phase II Program, The Prototype Of An Innovative And Low-cost Open System Of Agile Ground Stations Using The New Commercial Software Defined Radio (sdr) Technology. The Prototype Agile Stations Will Operate In A Wide Band Used By NASA And Other Science And Technology Satellites And Will Be Able To Switch Between Communications F$590K
  • Federal contractNASA · SBIR Phase III For Tess Phase I Support Studies$149K
  • Federal contractNASA · Open Systems Of Agile Ground Stations$100K

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Standing among 91 peers

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Aerospace · Orbital_ops · Device

  • Federal grants#23 · top 25%

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Founders and team

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Checked: USPTO inventors; federal award principal investigators; SEC Form D related persons · Oct 23, 2026

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What it has protected

No granted patents are on record.

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Checked: USPTO granted patents and published applications · Oct 23, 2026

Related companies, and why

Regulatory activity · Aerospace

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Sources

Federal grants from SBIR/STTR, NIH, NSF and DoD records. Federal contracts from USAspending.gov. Private capital from SEC Form D. Patents from USPTO. Publications from OpenAlex. Regulatory activity from the Federal Register. Press matched on company name.

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