The future of satellite manufacturing. Today.
Configure one of Apex’s productized satellite platforms to meet your unique mission requirements today and take satellite delivery in weeks, not years.
Accelerate deployment of your next-generation constellation with Apex
Productized Bus Platforms
Productized bus platforms increase reliability, reduce costs, and accelerate mission timelines, while built-in configurability lets you easily customize an existing platform to meet your specific mission requirements.
Manufactured
at Speed & Scale
Apex’s relentless focus on speed and scale supports faster time-to-orbit for every mission, from responsive space security to proliferated next-generation constellations. Apex buses are being built and delivered to customers at rate today.
Delivering your End-to-End Mission
End-to-end mission services accelerate and simplify your path to orbit, ensuring seamless programmatic execution across every stage of the mission lifecycle, from space vehicle analysis to payload integration and on-orbit commissioning.
Apex's Bus Platforms
Apex's satellite bus platforms support proliferated constellations across multiple orbits, with buses ranging in mass from 100 to 1,000 kg. Each platform is easily adapted with pre-engineered configuration packages to ensure performance across a broad range of missions.
PROUDLY MADE IN AMERICA
Aries
Payload capacity
Up to
150
KG
100 kg on SpaceX Rideshare
Dimensions of Dark Green Volume: 865 × 1170 × 550mm
Payload Volume in Falcon 9 Rideshare Full Plate Envelope
Payload OAP
175+
W
Base Power EOL (5 yrs.)
Dimensions of Dark Green Volume: 865 × 1170 × 550mm
Payload Volume in Falcon 9 Rideshare Full Plate Envelope
Payload capacity
Up to
120
KG
When Launched On A 15" ESPA Port
Dimensions of Dark Green Volume: 865 × 1170 × 550mm
Payload Volume in Falcon 9 Rideshare Full Plate Envelope
Payload OAP
125+
W
Base Power EOL (5 yrs.)
Dimensions of Dark Green Volume: 865 × 1170 × 550mm
Payload Volume in Falcon 9 Rideshare Full Plate Envelope
Nova
Payload capacity
Up to
300
KG
Additional Payload Capacity Available With Heavy Configuration Package
Dimensions of Dark Green Volume: 865 × 1170 × 550mm
Payload Volume in Falcon 9 Rideshare Full Plate Envelope
Payload OAP
1
kW
Base Power EOL (7 yrs.)
Dimensions of Dark Green Volume: 865 × 1170 × 550mm
Payload Volume in Falcon 9 Rideshare Full Plate Envelope
Comet
Payload capacity
500+
KG
Additional Payload Capacity Available With Heavy Configuration Package
Dimensions of Dark Green Volume: 865 × 1170 × 550mm
Payload Volume in Falcon 9 Rideshare Full Plate Envelope
Payload OAP
6+
kW
Scalable Power Architecture
Dimensions of Dark Green Volume: 865 × 1170 × 550mm
Payload Volume in Falcon 9 Rideshare Full Plate Envelope
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Enabling next-generation constellations by eliminating the satellite production bottleneck
As the new space race accelerates, Apex has reimagined satellite manufacturing to meet the growing demand for proliferated, attritable satellite constellations. While reusable launch vehicles have solved many orbital access challenges, scaled satellite manufacturing remains a critical bottleneck in constellation deployment. Apex’s solution: Productized, configurable spacecraft designed for manufacturing and delivered at scale.
Apex combines traditional aerospace techniques with innovative new-space approaches and lessons from high-rate terrestrial manufacturing to build high-reliability buses at constellation-scale. Our three product lines — Aries, Nova, and Comet — serve a broad range of customer missions with configurable designs optimized for operations across orbital regimes.
We can’t wait to see what you build on Apex’s platforms. Let's get to orbit.
Delivering for a broad spectrum of government and commercial customers today
Factory One
Apex's high-rate manufacturing facility is already enabling rate production in Los Angeles, CA, with a peak annual production capacity of over 200 buses per year. By the end of 2026, Factory One will reach over 100,000 sq. ft. — unlocking additional space for bus assembly, vertical integration, future platform R&D, and end-to-end mission services.
Factory One has been meticulously designed from the ground up to revolutionize bus production and support rapid, serial satellite manufacturing. From its dedicated cell-based subassembly production floor, to its fully equipped linear integration cleanroom and 66,000-lbf vibration table, Factory One enables Apex’s talented technicians to build and test buses at record speeds.
Apex’s proprietary operating system, Octopus, integrates the full spacecraft manufacturing process — linking inventory management, production scheduling, and assembly work instructions into a single, unified environment that dynamically adjusts to evolving demand.
