SBSP · OPERATOR PROFILE · DATA AS OF 2026-06-10

Reflect Orbital

Active SBSP Private HQ: Hawthorne, California Founded 2021

Hawthorne, CA startup selling 'sunlight after dark': large mylar orbital mirrors that redirect sunlight to ground solar farms and military sites. First demonstration satellite slated mid-2026 with a 4,000-satellite constellation application on file at the FCC; a $1.25M AFWERX SBIR Phase II (2025) anchors the defense use case. Faces organized dark-sky/astronomy opposition.

42.7

ARI Composite

Very High Risk

#12 of 30

Peer Rank

Infrastructure cohort

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Total Launches

No flights tracked

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Estimated valuation

Not disclosed

FINANCIAL HEALTH

42.7

ARI composite · Very High Risk

Peer rank#12 of 30

Peer groupInfrastructure

Data coverage82%

Tracked gov contracts$1.2M across 1 awards

Full finance profile →

CAPITAL & CREDIT PROFILE

Government capital

$1.2M lifetime tracked obligations across 1 awards — top agency Department of Defense ($1.2M) (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#12 of 30

Tracked peers30

REGISTRY DATA

Legal nameReflect Orbital Inc.

OwnershipPrivate

HeadquartersHawthorne, California

CountryUS

Founded2021

AliasesReflect Orbital, Reflect Orbital Inc

Key programsEarendil-1 mirror demonstrator (2026), 4,000-satellite mirror constellation (FCC application)

Gov customersDoD (AFWERX)

Last fundingSeries A, $20M (Lux Capital-led); ~$26.5M total

IPO statusPrivate

Source: space_company_registry.json · Operator homepage → · Space Frontier Foundation SBSP company report documents the mirror constellation plan and funding history; AFWERX award corroborated in local gov_grants DB ($1.2M DoD, May 2025).

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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