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(Incorporated in the Cayman Islands)
York Space Systems is a leading U.S.-based space and defense prime (primary contractor – see footnote 1) providing a comprehensive suite of mission-critical solutions for national security, government and commercial customers. York is one of the only space and defense primes with proprietary hardware and software capabilities designed to address customers’ complex mission requirements across the critical elements of the entire space ecosystem throughout the mission lifecycle.
York is the No. 1 provider to the U.S. Department of Defense’s (“DoD”) Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (“PWSA”) by number of spacecraft operating in-orbit, by number of contracts, and by variety of contract types as of September 2025. York is a partner of choice for our customers, with differentiated performance versus traditional primes based on price, speed to deployment, and sophistication of capabilities. We produce our satellites at approximately half the cost of our competitors and have been the first to deliver and launch satellites for the PWSA. York is the first and only company to demonstrate Link-162 (see footnote 2) connectivity from space, highlighting our unique and innovative capabilities.
York is purpose built to address evolving national security space challenges and to adapt to the ongoing shift in the U.S. government’s mission needs and procurement processes, where economics, agility, rapid capabilities, and heritage drive customer decision making. We deliver mission-critical solutions in a zero-tolerance for error environment where systems must work and we believe we are positioned to capture an outsized share of growth in our core markets. York provides customers a vertically integrated, full technology stack of solutions including design, production, integration, and operation of spacecraft with turnkey offerings to manage spacecraft and constellations throughout their entire mission lifecycle. York has significant space heritage, having flown 74 missions, created 17 products with flight heritage, and logged over four million on-orbit hours. York’s position as a prime enables us to monetize the entire space vertical from launch to mission operations, from spacecraft to payloads, and from edge computing to data transfer.
York was founded in 2012 by our CEO, Dirk Wallinger, to create an innovative space technology mission prime, with a goal of meeting the evolving national security threats from space by providing mission-critical spacecraft at scale, faster, and at lower cost. We believe that York’s proven production and delivery capabilities place it among a very limited number of companies who have the capability to deliver the required solutions for the Golden Dome based on its current timeline. We provide our customers with the ability to quickly and effectively field responsive space-based technologies. We have a demonstrated ability to win contracts in space and are a trusted partner to U.S. national security, intelligence and defense agencies, such as the U.S. Air Force and the Space Development Agency (“SDA”) as well as commercial and civil customers. Our proprietary hardware, software and mission operations solutions are designed to address the United States’ national security priorities: missile defense (crucial to the Golden Dome), counter-space capabilities, and space domain awareness.
1 – A primary contractor (“prime”) that leads major defense programs and deals directly with the Department of Defense.
2- A real-time, military tactical data link network used by the U.S. government and NATO.
Note: Net loss and revenue figures are for the 12 months that ended Sept. 30, 2025.
(Note: York Space Systems filed its S-1 for its IPO on Nov. 17, 2025, without disclosing the terms. Estimated IPO proceeds are $100 million, but that is just a placeholder figure.)
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