Heat shield
We designed and built our flexible thermal protection system and heat shield on an ultra-low ballistic coefficient, then put it through reentry-level heat.
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Announcing Catalyx's point-to-point space delivery demo, flying Q3 2026
Hi all — Catalyx makes the world's best reentry systems. Today we are announcing our first point-to-point space delivery demo, flying Q3 2026. Our ReX vehicles return the highest payload mass and volume from orbit at the lowest cost, on an ultra-low ballistic coefficient.
In just nine months, Catalyx has built & proven a complete reentry system
Propulsion
We designed and built our propulsion system in-house and test-fired it 150 times, with repeatable ignition and stable combustion.
Facility
We built a 26k sq ft state of the art spacecraft assembly integration and test facility all under one roof in Ahmedabad, India enabling us to build, iterate and move faster.
Traction
The market is pulling: we have $40M in upcoming contracts and another $200M in pipeline, with strong interest across Defence, Commercial, and multiple geographies.
Our team is nearly 40 people strong.
And now we are launching the demo, from the west coast of India, landing in the Arabian Sea. This is the world’s first in-space demonstration of cable tensioned ultra low ballistic coefficient re-entry system. The launch is expected no earlier than mid-August 2026. This will be the shortest time a company has developed a reentry system from scratch, built it, and brought it to launch.
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Catalyx Space is building the world's best reentry systems. Our reusable ReX vehicles return payloads from orbit at unprecedented scale, up to 12 tons and 60m³ of cargo, while operating the full mission lifecycle from launch to recovery. Our core innovation is a tension-based deployable heat shield that combines the scalability of an inflatable system with the robustness of a rigid structure. Built from commercial off-the-shelf components, it enables the world's widest heat shields, the largest payload return volumes, and a scalable pathway for returning everything from commercial cargo to future space nuclear assets.
Rifath built the world's lightest satellite at 18. With Clinton and Keerthan, the team has flown 8 spacecraft, run 26+ space missions, and put 15+ flight-proven subsystems on orbit, on $7M led by Outlander VC.
Innovation.
Accelerated.