Vast vs Forterra
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Building commercial space stations. Haven Demo flew 3 months in orbit (2025-2026). Haven-1 crew launch May 2026. $500M raised (Mar 2026). Founded 2021 by Jed McCaleb.
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Vast is a commercial space station company founded in 2021 by Jed McCaleb, the entrepreneur behind Ripple and Stellar, with a mission to build privately owned and operated habitats in low Earth orbit. As NASA's International Space Station approaches decommissioning, Vast is positioned to provide a successor commercial destination for astronauts, researchers, and private space travelers. The company is building a family of modular space stations designed to serve as research platforms, manufacturing facilities, and eventually long-duration human habitation in orbit — the next phase of human spaceflight infrastructure.\n\nVast's initial product is Haven-1, a single-module commercial space station designed for short-duration crew missions. Haven-1 is scheduled for a crewed launch in May 2026 aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon, making it the first commercial space station to host astronauts. A demonstration version of the Haven module completed a three-month uncrewed orbital mission between 2025 and 2026, validating the platform's life support, power, and structural systems in orbit. Vast is also developing Haven-2, a larger multi-module station intended for longer-duration research and commercial operations.\n\nVast raised $500M in March 2026, bringing total capitalization to over $500M and enabling the company to accelerate station development and expand its mission manifest. The company has partnered with SpaceX for launch and crew transportation services. Vast is competing with Axiom Space and Blue Origin's Orbital Reef project for the commercial space station market, which NASA is funding through its Commercial Low Earth Orbit Destinations (CLD) program as a deliberate strategy to transition human spaceflight from government-owned to commercially operated infrastructure.
Raised $238M Series C. Only DoD ground autonomy production contract holder (Marine Corps ROGUE Fires). $114M Army prime contract for autonomous breaching systems. AMPV autonomous prototype in 2026.
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Forterra is the only company with an active DoD production contract for autonomous ground vehicles, holding the Marine Corps ROGUE (Remote Operations for Ground Units) Fires contract and a $114 million Army prime contract for autonomous breaching system development. The company raised $238 million in Series C financing and is targeting delivery of an Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV) autonomous prototype to the Army in 2026 — representing the first autonomous integration into a major Army vehicle program.
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