K2 Space Corporation

K2 Space is excited to announce that we are opening an engineering hub in the greater Seattle region. Even better, we’re hiring! Our Seattle-area office will be an engineering outpost powering the most capable satellites in commercial space. From flight software and autonomy to the low-level systems that drive our satellites’ most demanding workloads, this team will contribute to satellites operating at the edge of what’s possible. In four years, our engineers have built and launched the most powerful dual channel Hall thrusters currently in orbit. We’re now scaling to produce hundreds of satellites by 2030, backed by over $500M raised and $1B in contracts. We’re looking for engineers excited to disrupt the industry, not maintain it. Want to come build bigger with us? Check out our Seattle-area postings at www.k2space.com/careers.

K2 Space was honored to host United States Space Force Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman – along with his wife, Mrs. Jennifer Saltzman, and his team – at our factory this week for a firsthand look at how we build large, high power satellites at speed and scale to support our Guardians and their national security missions.

K2's CEO and Co-Founder Karan Kunjur sat down with CNBC's Deirdre Bosa to talk about the SpaceX IPO and the hardware advantage stack that is driving increased customer and investor interest in companies like K2 Space. Listen to the full interview here: https://lnkd.in/eRhtingY

K2 Space has been confirmed as a satellite bus provider for the United States Space Force Protected Tactical SATCOM-Global (PTS-G) initiative, which will launch to GEO in 2028. This announcement is a milestone for K2 as our first participation in a Pentagon program of record. Under the award announced by Space Systems Command earlier this week, K2 will supply a satellite to our partners at SES Space & Defense, one of two primes on the contract. K2’s large, resilient satellites are built with the power and mass to deploy the anti-jam capabilities and consistent communications that the PTS-G constellation requires. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/efjTMBpK

It’s official: K2 Space is operating the most powerful Hall thrusters currently flying in space. Just a few weeks after the launch of our first test mission, Gravitas, we’ve successfully fired both of our 20kW Hall thruster systems to achieve a new level of electric propulsion power never before seen on orbit for this type of system. We plan to continue raising and lowering our orbit as we gather more data on the thruster performance while continuing our mission in LEO. This milestone is yet another validation of K2’s approach to building bigger, as more powerful thrusters will enable the MEO, GEO, and deep space missions of the future.  

K2 Space celebrates its fourth birthday today, June 1. When our co-founders Karan Kunjur and Neel Kunjur started this company, they had big dreams to build big satellites – and now K2 is changing what’s possible in space with high power, high payload mass satellites to support all kinds of complex missions. Over the last four years, we went:  --From a WeWork to a 180,000 sq. ft. factory in Torrance, CA  --From 2 founders to a team of 275 people who are the best at what they do  --From a new bank account to $450M in capital raised and $1B in contracts won  --From a render to one of the largest satellites ever operating on orbit As we celebrate this milestone, we’re actively building and scaling to support extensive growth and other planned missions over the next year. Our Trinity mission will launch several satellites in early 2027, and we’ll be producing at least three dozen satellites a year in 2028.      All of this is possible thanks to the support of our investors, customers, and employees, who share our vision of a bigger, more powerful future in space. (From then to now, below -- our original facility, on the left, and our current 180k sq. ft. factory and growing team, on the right.) 

K2 Space Co-Founder and CEO Karan Kunjur recently sat down with Nasdaq MarketSite’s executive producer and host, Kristina Ayanian, to share how K2 is blurring the line between current capabilities and science fiction by building large, powerful satellites at speed and scale. Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/eXJprhSU

K2 Space recently hosted Rep. Jake Ellzey, who visited our factory for a close-up look at how we’re building the biggest, most powerful satellites on orbit to support national security priorities, including Golden Dome. Just like Rep. Ellzey’s home state of Texas, everything is bigger at K2 – including our satellites’ size, power, and payload mass to support our customers’ complex mission needs.

K2 Space was honored to recently host Secretary of the United States Air Force Troy Meink at our California factory as we scale to build hundreds of large, high power satellites to support our warfighters and national security objectives.