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Space Startup Failures — 6 Autopsies | UnicornBurn

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Space Startup Failures

6 startup autopsies in the Space sector. Each includes the exact cause of failure, verified financial data, and the documented failure pattern.

6 autopsies · newest deaths first

Orbital Sidekick

Hyperspectral satellites in orbit, but the paying customers never arrived.

Silent Shutdown

Oxford Space Systems

ESA-validated deployable antennas, zero commercial scale — a deep-tech timing tragedy.

Bankruptcy

World View Enterprises

Built a luxury balloon launchpad while the business model floated away.

Bankruptcy

Masten Space Systems

Won a $75.9M NASA moon contract, then ran out of money before launch.

Bankruptcy

Exos Aerospace

Reusable suborbital rockets with no reusable business model.

Silent Shutdown

Sky and Space Global

spaceAustralia2020

Three nanosatellites up, AU$150M short, and zero revenue — a small satellite cautionary tale.

Slow Death

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