Singapore’s launcher startup, Equatorial Space, has opened its headquarters and production facility in the Tuas area of the island-state at an opening ceremony attended by 40 representatives from Singapore’s government agencies and fellow industry players.
The facility features a 40ft-container-accessible production floor, and a 420 square foot avionics & payload processing room being fitted to ISO 8 standards to support its suborbital launch services starting 2024, and orbital launches beginning in 2026.
“Over the last 6 years we had 100 reasons to close down, and just one to carry on. We chose the latter,” says Simon Gwozdz, CEO of Equatorial Space.
“Our new facility is a testimony of our resilience – almost four times the size of all our previous facilities combined and providing space for our sounding rocket and microlauncher development programs,” he added.
Jonathan Hung, the Executive Director of Singapore’s Office for Space Technologies and Industry (OSTIn) was the Guest of Honour at the ceremony.
“This is not only a celebration of a Singapore startup expanding, it is also a celebration of achievements that ESS has secured to realize its vision of making spaceflight more affordable, accessible and perhaps most importantly – sustainable,” said Mr Hung during his opening remarks, “
“I have visited many rocket factories – and it is truly a feat to be in one in Singapore,” he summed up.
Equatorial Space is a Techstars-backed, Singapore-headquartered rocket propulsion and launcher company started in 2017.
With its proprietary propulsion technologies, Equatorial Space builds game-changing, eco-friendly, low-cost and explosives-free rockets to foster the future of space exploration.
In 2020, Equatorial Space became the first company in Southeast Asia to test launch a commercially developed rocket prototype, testing it’s core technologies. It will begin orbital launch services in 2026.
