# The Exploration Company

> <p><strong>Ownership:</strong> Privately held; major investors include EQT Ventures, Balderton Capital, Plural, Marathon Venture Capital, Promus Ventures. Munich + Bordeaux since 2021.<br><strong>Employees:</strong> ~200<br><strong>Key products:</strong> Nyx reusable space capsule (cargo + crew variants); contracted to deliver cargo to commercial space stations and ISS<br><strong>Key markets:</strong> Commercial space stations (Axiom, Vast, Starlab), ESA, national space agencies<br><strong>Known for:</strong> French-German startup building Europe's first independent crewed-capable spacecraft — the Nyx capsule. Bridges to commercial low-Earth-orbit stations as ISS retires post-2030. The most ambitious European new-space company in capability terms.<br><a href="https://www.exploration.space">https://www.exploration.space</a></p>

https://www.exploration.space