Company
Stoke Space Technologies, Inc.
Stoke Space develops fully and rapidly reusable launch vehicles for commercial, civil and national security customers. ↗
| Headquarters | Kent, WA ↗ |
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| Founded | 2020 ↗ |
| Founders | Tom Feldman, CTO and co-founder ↗ |
| Leadership | Andy Lapsa, CEO and co-founder ↗ |
| Department of War obligations | $6 million in prime contracts since fiscal 2022 ↗ |
| Ownership | Stoke Space is privately held; its Series E round was co-led by Point72 Ventures and Spark Capital ↗; $2.3 billion total capital raised ↗ |
| Website | www.stokespace.com ↗ |
Products
- Nova is Stoke Space's fully reusable launch vehicle, designed to reuse both stages. ↗
- Nova Pathfinder is the first Nova vehicle, built to carry payloads to orbit while proving Nova's core reuse architecture, with a first orbital launch targeted for early 2027. ↗
- Nova Block 2 is a larger Nova vehicle that delivers 15 metric tons to low Earth orbit, with a first launch targeted for 2029. ↗
- Andromeda is Stoke Space's rapidly reusable upper-stage rocket engine, with an integrated re-entry heat shield. ↗
Customers
- The U.S. Space Force selected Stoke Space in March 2025 for National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 1, an indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity contract that lets Stoke compete for $5.6 billion in launch contracts. ↗
- NASA selected Stoke Space for a partnership under its Space Technology Mission Directorate to advance upper stage re-entry capabilities of Nova. ↗