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Orbex

Active Launch Private HQ: Forres, Scotland, United Kingdom Founded 2015

UK-based small-launch developer building the Prime rocket -- a bio-propane / LOX two-stage vehicle targeting SaxaVord Spaceport in the Shetland Islands.

40.2

ARI Composite

Very High Risk

#17 of 22

Peer Rank

Launch cohort

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Total Launches

No flights tracked

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Estimated valuation

Not disclosed

FINANCIAL HEALTH

40.2

ARI composite · Very High Risk

Peer rank#17 of 22

Peer groupLaunch

Data coverage82%

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SECTOR POSITION

Primary sectorLaunch

Rank within sector#17 of 22

Tracked peers22

REGISTRY DATA

Legal nameOrbital Express Launch Limited

OwnershipPrivate

HeadquartersForres, Scotland, United Kingdom

CountryGB

Founded2015

FounderChris Larmour

CEOPhillip Chambers

AliasesOrbex, Orbital Express Launch, Orbital Express Launch Limited

Key programsPrime

Gov customersUK Space Agency, European Space Agency

Source: space_company_registry.json · Operator homepage → · Wikipedia entry summarising Orbex's Prime vehicle and Forres / SaxaVord operations. Operator site at orbex.space confirms HQ and bio-propane propulsion.

METHODOLOGY

Launch history and subsystem outcomes aggregate from AstraVeris's launch_events table with Wilson 95% lower bounds on success rates. ARI scores come from the 11-factor composite (/finance/methodology/). Constellation counts derive from the live CelesTrak/GCAT object catalog. Gov contracts from USAspending.gov awards; private deals from deduplicated pipeline deal extraction. Absence of a row means "not tracked" — we never fabricate. See /methodology/ for the full data model and /data-licensing/ for licensing terms.

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