Vast, a company known for developing the Haven commercial space stations, is now diversifying its business with a move into high-power satellite buses.
Vast announced the expansion on Tuesday, along with an agreement with a confidential customer for four satellites. The deal could grow up to 200 additional satellites. The company is targeting a first launch in 2027, planning to launch 10 satellites at once.
The product line is called Vast Satellite, and the first offering is a 15 Kw-class bus, which can support a variety of missions. Vast noted its building the business around products it has already developed for commercial space stations, including avionics, power, communications, propulsion, and flight software.
Vast highlighted orbital data centers, AI edge compute, and autonomous operations as applications its buses could serve. To that end, it is offering the Nvidia Space-1 Vera Rubin module as an option for customers. This is an upcoming chip for space missions recently announced by Nvidia, which Cowboy Space has also announced plans to adopt.
Vast CEO Max Haot noted the company brings together its engineering team, manufacturing capabilities, and the progress made by the Haven Demo that flew in 2025 and validated critical subsystems.
“Customers can benefit from our experience designing, building, and operating flight-proven large-scale spacecraft while gaining access to highly capable, flexible spacecraft platforms backed by operational expertise,” Haot commented in a release.
The satellites are initially designed to fly in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO), with Vast noting that other orbits are on the horizon. It is a flat panel structure for launch deployment, with a payload capacity of 350+ kilograms. It has the option to be equipped with X-band radio, third party laser communication terminals, and a software-defined radio platform.
This expansion comes after earlier this year, Vast raised $300 million in Series A equity and $200 million in debt financing.
