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PowerLight Technologies

Active SBSP Private HQ: Kent, Washington Founded 2007

Kent, WA laser power-beaming pioneer (ex-LaserMotive) funded largely by non-dilutive defense R&D; in Dec 2025 it delivered laser power to a fielded military UAS in flight - an industry first - under the CENTCOM-sponsored PTROL-UAS program. Terrestrial and airborne today, but its laser links are the same building blocks space power beaming needs.

46.8
ARI Composite
Moderate Risk
#8 of 30
Peer Rank
Infrastructure cohort
Total Launches
No flights tracked
Estimated valuation
Not disclosed

FINANCIAL HEALTH

46.8
ARI composite · Moderate Risk
Peer rank#8 of 30
Peer groupInfrastructure
Data coverage82%
Tracked gov contracts$16.2M across 2 awards

CAPITAL & CREDIT PROFILE

Government capital
$16.2M lifetime tracked obligations across 2 awards — top agency Department of Defense ($16.2M) (strict id-matched; unattributed award rows are excluded). Explore grants →
Source: USAspending.gov award obligations matched to this company. Obligations, not recognized revenue.

SECTOR POSITION

Primary sectorSBSP
Rank within sector#8 of 30
Tracked peers30

REGISTRY DATA

Legal namePowerLight Technologies, Inc.
OwnershipPrivate
HeadquartersKent, Washington
CountryUS
Founded2007
AliasesPowerLight Technologies, PowerLight, LaserMotive
Key programsPTROL-UAS laser power beaming (CENTCOM), NRL power-beaming demonstrations
Gov customersDoD (CENTCOM), Naval Research Laboratory
IPO statusPrivate

Source: space_company_registry.json · Operator homepage → · Company release documents the Dec 2025 in-flight UAS laser power delivery under the CENTCOM PTROL-UAS program.

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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