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Mar 2025CHIMERA GEO-1 was reported to have lost command after deployment and to have gone to solar orbit rather than completing the planned GEO transfer.
SourceLast-mile delivery for satellites.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Overview
Epic Aerospace is a privately held aerospace startup building CHIMERA orbital transfer vehicles / space tugs for moving satellites from rideshare drop-off orbits to LEO, GEO, and beyond. Public sources disagree on some details (especially HQ, headcount, and total funding), so the fields below reflect the best-supported public evidence.
Primary product
CHIMERA orbital transfer vehicles (space tugs)
Founded
2019
Headquarters
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Team size
30-40
Industry
Aviation & Aerospace
Sub-industry
In-space transportation / orbital transfer vehicles
Offices
Buenos Aires, Argentina (José A. Cabrera 5653, CABA)
Montevideo, Uruguay (Zonamerica)
Florida, United States (EPIC PPF)
San Francisco, California, United States (listed by some databases)
Business model
B2B in-space transportation services
Mission-specific orbital transfer vehicle hardware
Spacecraft integration and end-to-end mission support
Funding
People & investors
Leadership
CEO & Founder
Finance & Operations
Structures Engineer
Propulsion Engineer
Testing Operations
Test Site Engineer
AOCS Engineer
Work & culture
Public pages describe the team as engineers, programmers, and builders passionate about space infrastructure, with an engineering-heavy builder culture focused on fast, inexpensive, scalable access to space.
Product & market
Pricing
Published flyaway pricing for CHIMERA blocks plus custom mission contracts
Differentiators
- —Compact, low-cost orbital transfer vehicles
- —In-house propulsion, structures, and avionics
- —Non-toxic propellant stack with HTP production
- —LEO-to-GEO and TLI mission coverage
- —Modular CHIMERA family across multiple mission classes
Technology
Orbital Transfer Vehicles (OTVs)
CHIMERA LEO / GEO spacecraft
Non-toxic hypergolic propulsion
High-test peroxide (HTP) production
900N apogee thruster
1N cold-gas thruster pack
Liquid-liquid injectors
Catalyst beds
Simple ACS
Modular structures
Avionics
Reaction wheels
CNC machining and clean-room manufacturing
Aluminum alloy structures
Customers
Satellite operators
Smallsat / constellation operators
Commercial and institutional mission customers
Competitors
D-Orbit
Impulse Space
Argo
Quantum Space
Morpheus Space
ThrustMe
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
Approximately $2.6M-$4.2M annual revenue (third-party estimates vary)
Estimated monthly visits
1.4K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Signals & risks
Latest news
La Letra P · Mar 2026
The article highlights government support for Epic Aerospace, visits to its Ezeiza testing site, and cooperation agreements, while also discussing broader Argentine space-sector policy tensions.
SatNow · Mar 2026
A 2026 profile on the Chimera family says Epic is expanding modular orbital transfer vehicles, including LEO and GEO variants with larger payload capacities and deeper-space mission support.
Argentina.gob.ar · Feb 2025
Official Argentine government coverage says Epic Aerospace successfully launched a space tug on the NASA/SpaceX IM-2 mission and describes the company’s role in moving small satellites to precise orbits.
SatNews · Feb 2025
The IM-2 launch article lists Epic Aerospace’s CHIMERA GEO 1 among the ride-share payloads on the Falcon 9 mission and frames it as a transfer spacecraft headed toward geostationary orbit.
GomSpace · Sep 2023
GomSpace announced a €318,000 order from Epic Aerospace for products and subsystems used in the company’s space tug control system.
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