The first class
60 kg
of payload per mission
The spacecraft that opens the fleet. First missions are planned for 2028.
Our flight partner
Every Nostimere object flies, and comes home, with Space Phoenix.
Space Phoenix Systems builds and operates reusable spacecraft made for the hardest part of spaceflight: the return. Nostimere brings the great brands to orbit. Space Phoenix carries them there, and brings them back.
Space Phoenix Systems · Baltimore, Maryland
Why Space Phoenix
Built for the return leg of spaceflight.
Reusable rockets have made reaching orbit cheaper than ever. Coming back has not followed: few spacecraft are built to return, and those that are were made for crews and station cargo.
Space Phoenix builds its spacecraft, its ground operations and its mission system around one purpose: bringing payloads home from orbit, intact, on a schedule. For a house that promises the return, there is no better partner.
Who does what
One partnership. Three parts, each done by the people who do it best.
The House
Nostimere
The partner relationship and the space strategy. The object, prepared, weighed and recorded. The events, the film and the campaign. The Certificate of Return and the archive behind it.
The flight partner
Space Phoenix
The reusable spacecraft. Integrating the object into the payload bay. Mission operations in orbit, re-entry, recovery and the return of the object to the House.
The rocket
Launch provider
The launch itself, contracted by Space Phoenix. Up to four Space Phoenix spacecraft can fly on a single launch.
A mission
From your door to orbit, and back.
Every fact on a Certificate of Return comes from this chain: weighed and recorded by Nostimere, flown and logged by Space Phoenix, certified by the House on its return.
- I
Entrusted
Nostimere
The partner house hands its object to Nostimere, where it is weighed, photographed and recorded.
- II
Integrated
Space Phoenix
Space Phoenix integrates the object into the payload bay of its spacecraft, using one standard process for every payload.
- III
Launched
Launch provider
The spacecraft rides to orbit on a launch Space Phoenix has contracted.
- IV
In orbit
Space Phoenix
Space Phoenix flies the mission and keeps the record of everything the object experiences.
- V
Recovered
Space Phoenix
The spacecraft re-enters, is recovered, and the object is returned to the House.
- VI
Certified
Nostimere
Nostimere weighs the object again and issues its Certificate of Return, kept in the House archive.
The fleet
Three reusable spacecraft, built to fly again.
Each class builds on the one before it and is designed for reuse from the first day.
The middle class
200 kg
of payload per mission
A larger spacecraft whose heat shield builds on NASA’s inflatable heat-shield research.
The largest class
350 kg
of payload per mission
The heaviest returns, for programmes that fly material in quantity.
Project 100: launch, recover, refurbish and fly the same spacecraft again, all within one hundred days.
Space Phoenix programme objective
The company
Engineers and operators who have built this market before.
Engineering
A collaboration with NASA Langley Research Center on the first spacecraft, with engineering based at the University of New Hampshire’s John Olson Advanced Manufacturing Center.
Proven parts
Space-proven components wherever practical, so risk is retired before an object is ever placed on board.
Leadership
A team whose experience spans Northrop Grumman, the ISS National Laboratory, ICEYE, NIST and national-security programmes.
Recognition
Named one of the “Most Fundable Companies in America” for 2025 by Pepperdine Graziadio Business School, and backed by an equity investment from the Maryland Technology Development Corporation.
Organisations named on this page are referenced for context and do not imply their endorsement of Nostimere.