CategorySpace
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Overview
Space manufacturing company developing technology to recycle orbital debris into propellant and structural materials. Founded in 2017 by CEO Gary Calnan and CTO Joe Pawelski. Raised USD 5.7M in venture funding plus a USD 1M seed from Colorado ONE Fund. Awarded USD 1.7M contract by U.S. Space Force with Astroscale U.S. and Colorado state university. Also developing power processing units (PPUs) for electric thrusters.
Reality check
SpaceWERX SBIR (company-claimed)
Feb 2023: Won a $1.7 million Direct-to-Phase II SBIR from SpaceWERX under Orbital Prime, leading a consortium with Astroscale U.S. and Colorado State University.
Circular propulsion project (company-claimed)
Recycles metal in space into propellant for satellite mobility; Neumann Space supplies its metal-propellant Neumann Drive, with Modular Space Foundry processing.
Space Foundry (company-claimed)
Processes spent spacecraft and orbital material into feedstock for in-space manufacturing; CisLunar announced a patent for the technology.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Focus
Data & sources
Web sources
5
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Models (1)
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Current leadership (2)
- Gary Calnan CEO & Co-foundersecondary-verified
- Joe Pawelski CTO & Co-foundersecondary-verified
Founders (2)
Safety record
No incidents on record for CisLunar Industries.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
CisLunar Industries in third-party press
Peers
56 peers across 1 segment. Every CisLunar Industries competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
space(56)
36 companies in this segment · low_concentration (HHI 1188.742650389188) · leader K2 Space at 2172%
- Aetherfluxdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Agile Space Industriesdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Airbusdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Albedo Spacedirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Astrobotic Technologydirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Astroscaledirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Mentioned on (3)
Registry pages whose text names CisLunar Industries.
Robots and products (1)
People (2)
Financial state
- Total funding
- $3.7M
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Funding rounds (1)
- Seed2026-03-23
$3M(reported)
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdAug 8, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (5)
- https://startupintros.com/orgs/cislunar-industries
- https://www.cislunarindustries.com/post/cislunar-industries-and-partners-awarded-contract-by-us-space-force
- https://www.cislunarindustries.com/post/cislunar-industries-to-procure-world-leading-propulsion-system-from-neumann-space
- https://www.cislunarindustries.com/
- https://www.cislunarindustries.com/post/cislunar-industries-issued-patent-for-innovative-space-foundry
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Methodology: Verified · 5 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-13
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
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Last reviewed 2026-10-13
Sources by quality tier
- 5
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for CisLunar Industries.Peer companies
- Impulse Space6 models
- AstroForge3 models
- Astrobotic Technology3 models
- Blackswan Space3 models
- China National Space Administration3 models
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory3 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning CisLunar Industries from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
CisLunar Industries Plots PPU Pivot
CisLunar Industries pivoted to sell power processing units (PPUs) for electric thrusters while continuing space debris recycling development. CEO Gary Calnan says the government…
CisLunar Industries and Partners Awarded $1.7M Contract by the U.S. Space Force
CisLunar Industries, Astroscale U.S. and Colorado State University awarded a USD 1.7M contract by the U.S. Space Force for space debris recycling technology.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/cislunar-industries.md
- RSS feed: /companies/cislunar-industries/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/51a44934-9ecc-46ef-b484-eeb94d7507d9
- Revision history: /companies/cislunar-industries/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Impulse Space6 models
- AstroForge3 models
- Astrobotic Technology3 models
- Blackswan Space3 models
- China National Space Administration3 models
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory3 models
Video
Elon Musk has revealed his bold vision for the future of AI: massive orbital compute powered by AI satellites manufactured directly on the Moon! In November 202
Speakers 00:00 Welcome - Colorado School of Mines - Angel Abbud-Madrid, Director of the Center for Space Resources 03:26 US Consul General (Melbourne, Australia
Gary, Joe, and Jeromy discuss key components of recycling space junk: CisLunar Industries debris recycling and metal refining technology, and orbital maneuvers
From garage to vacuum chamber, CisLunar Industries was awarded a NASA SBIR in March of 2021. This one minute video provides insight to the innovation applied i
Heat Index
Category contender75/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
CisLunar Industries draws attention at the 17th percentile but verifies reality at the insufficient-data level among space robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Nov 7, 2026