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Question 1 of 3

What are you sending up?

This one decides whether LEVITAS can help you at all, so we ask it first.

Not sure which? Pick the first one. If it fits inside a shoebox and someone else’s spacecraft carries it, it is a payload.

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5 services · 1 company, grouped by stage

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The catalogue is still opening up.

5 services from 1 company are published so far, and more join as each provider confirms their listing. Nothing is published yet at funding and payload development, so if that is what you need, there is nothing here for you yet. The chain explainer still tells you who to look for.

How a mission works

Stage 1 of 6: Funding. Funding

You find the money.

See open funding calls

Stage 2 of 6: Compliance and safety. Compliance and safety

5 services · 1 company

Reached via others

Someone has to prove your experiment is safe to fly: nothing leaks, nothing catches fire, nothing endangers a crew, a station or another customer’s payload. What this stage involves

This is not usually where you start.

Safety work needs to know the hardware and the platform first, so it cannot come before them. Your payload developer or integrator brings the safety specialists with them.

Evidence: Demonstrated. There is public evidence this has been done. Ask what flew, and when.

by Tumbleweed · covers 4 of 6 stages · From €15,000

Evidence: Stated. The provider says they can do this and it has not been publicly demonstrated yet. Ask them what has already flown.

by Tumbleweed · covers 4 of 6 stages · From €60,000

Evidence: Stated. The provider says they can do this and it has not been publicly demonstrated yet. Ask them what has already flown.

by Tumbleweed · covers 4 of 6 stages · From €120,000

Evidence: Stated. The provider says they can do this and it has not been publicly demonstrated yet. Ask them what has already flown.

by Tumbleweed · covers 4 of 6 stages · From €240,000

Evidence: Stated. The provider says they can do this and it has not been publicly demonstrated yet. Ask them what has already flown.

by Tumbleweed · covers 4 of 6 stages · From €480,000

Stage 3 of 6: Payload development. Payload development

Your experiment becomes flight hardware: a sealed, shake-proof version of your lab setup that runs itself and survives a rocket launch.

See payload developers