One of my favorite activities as CEO is telling our team how awesome they are, and often I will do this by reminding them of what they have accomplished. A “Year In Review” is a natural time to look back and congratulate the team on the many wins from the past 12 months. This article is an excerpt of a message that I presented to our team at our internal January All-Hands meeting. Congratulations to the Exolaunch team on this record-setting year!

In 2025, Exolaunch achieved more, faster, and at a larger scale than ever before. We moved at a blistering pace to support customer missions, release new products, and execute with technical excellence with every launch campaign. The year started off with the launch of Transporter-12 in January, where we launched our 500th customer satellite. To show the pace of the year, our 600th satellite was launched in June, and we finished the year having launched over 650 customer satellites to orbit. Eleven missions were successfully executed in 2025 - almost one per month!

We also achieved launch heritage for future-enabling new hardware products that enable our customers to launch larger, higher mass satellites on any launch vehicle. These new products include Quadro, Exolaunch's four-point separation system, CarboNIX NEO, a stiffer version of our ring-based separation system, and the 8U version of EXOpod Nova, our innovative cubesat dispenser that allows for deployment of higher-volume, higher-mass cubesats while still conforming to the cubesat standard rail dimensions. These products, informed by customer feedback and leading the industry towards the future of New Space design, empower our customers to continue innovating while providing standard interfaces to today's launch vehicles. They give our customers more options for engineering trades with their satellite and mission design, opening up more opportunities for mission success.

Introducing and releasing new products requires vision, design and production. But one aspect of releasing a new product that often goes un-acknowledged is the tremendous amount of testing that takes place to qualify a new product. At Exolaunch, our products are robust and reliable, and this is assured through significant testing of every new product long before it is approved for delivery to the customer. In 2025, our team spent the equivalent of 321 working days in various test houses, internal and external, often with multiple locations testing at the same time. These tests resulted in qualification testing of 6 new products and product sizes, 126 acceptance test reports, and hardware that was flown on 4 different launch vehicles in 2025. Fun fact: To support testing and launch activities, the Exolaunch logistics team sent out a shipment on average every 5.5 hours in 2025!

2025 saw diverse launch activity across multiple launch vehicles and launch locations around the globe. Exolaunch has launched on 7 distinct launch vehicles from 5 continents and also has experience with diverse mission profiles. In 2025, in addition to Low Earth Orbit, Exolaunch successfully deployed customer missions headed for lunar rendezvous and a deep space mission to study an asteroid.

All of these activities required significant expansion of personnel and facilities. We grew the team by 50% in 2025, hiring across all offices and departments. To support existing and future customers and launch vehicle partners, we also expanded geographically by opening offices in Toulouse, France and Tokyo, Japan. Our Berlin headquarters and US offices both saw expansions of office space, setting us up for continued growth in both locations.

2025 was a record-setting year for Exolaunch, but we're only getting started! 2026 has more in store, and you can find that in an upcoming article announcing our 2026 plans!

Dr. Robert Sproles
CEO of Exolaunch