K2 Space is taking the weekend off from building big satellites to celebrate a big milestone – America’s 250th birthday. We’re proud to build the largest, most powerful satellites on orbit right here in the U.S. to sustain American tech superiority for the next 250 years and beyond.  Wishing our colleagues, customers, and partners a happy 4th!

K2 Space is excited to announce that we are opening an engineering hub in the greater Seattle region. Even better, we’re hiring! Our Seattle-area office will be an engineering outpost powering the most capable satellites in commercial space. From flight software and autonomy to the low-level systems that drive our satellites’ most demanding workloads, this team will contribute to satellites operating at the edge of what’s possible. In four years, our engineers have built and launched the most powerful dual channel Hall thrusters currently in orbit. We’re now scaling to produce hundreds of satellites by 2030, backed by over $500M raised and $1B in contracts. We’re looking for engineers excited to disrupt the industry, not maintain it. Want to come build bigger with us? Check out our Seattle-area postings at k2space.com/careers.

K2 Space was honored to host @USSpaceForce @SpaceForceCSO Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman – along with his wife, Mrs. Jennifer Saltzman, and his team – at our factory this week for a firsthand look at how we build large, high power satellites at speed and scale to support our Guardians and their national security missions.

K2's CEO and Co-Founder @KaranKunjur sat down with CNBC's @dee_bosa to talk about the @SpaceX IPO and the hardware advantage stack that is driving increased customer and investor interest in companies like K2 Space. Listen to the full interview here: youtube.com/watch?v=FbUDQhxr…

K2 Space has been confirmed as a satellite bus provider for the @USSpaceForce Protected Tactical SATCOM-Global (PTS-G) initiative, which will launch to GEO in 2028. This announcement is a milestone for K2 as our first participation in a Pentagon program of record. Under the award announced by @USSF_SSC earlier this week, K2 will supply a satellite to our partners at @SESSpaceDefense, one of two primes on the contract. K2’s large, resilient satellites are built with the power and mass to deploy the anti-jam capabilities and consistent communications that the PTS-G constellation requires. Read more here: spacenews.com/k2-space-rocke…

It’s official: K2 Space is operating the most powerful Hall thrusters currently flying in space. Just a few weeks after the launch of our first test mission, Gravitas, we’ve successfully fired both of our 20kW Hall thruster systems to achieve a new level of electric propulsion power never before seen on orbit for this type of system. We plan to continue raising and lowering our orbit as we gather more data on the thruster performance while continuing our mission in LEO. This milestone is yet another validation of K2’s approach to building bigger, as more powerful thrusters will enable the MEO, GEO, and deep space missions of the future.

K2 Space celebrates its fourth birthday today, June 1. When our co-founders @KaranKunjur and @neelkunjur started this company, they had big dreams to build big satellites – and now K2 is changing what’s possible in space with high power, high payload mass satellites to support all kinds of complex missions. Over the last four years, we went: --From a WeWork to a 180,000 sq. ft. factory in Torrance, CA --From 2 founders to a team of 275 people who are the best at what they do --From a new bank account to $450M in capital raised and $1B in contracts won --From a render to one of the largest satellites ever operating on orbit As we celebrate this milestone, we’re actively building and scaling to support extensive growth and other planned missions over the next year. Our Trinity mission will launch several satellites in early 2027, and we’ll be producing at least three dozen satellites a year in 2028. All of this is possible thanks to the support of our investors, customers, and employees, who share our vision of a bigger, more powerful future in space. (From then to now, below -- our original facility, on the left, and our current 180k sq. ft. factory and growing team, on the right.)

K2 Space Co-Founder and CEO @KaranKunjur recently sat down with @Nasdaq MarketSite’s executive producer and host, Kristina Ayanian, to share how K2 is blurring the line between current capabilities and science fiction by building large, powerful satellites at speed and scale. Check it out here: nasdaq.com/videos/k2-space

K2 Space recently hosted @RepEllzey, who visited our factory for a close-up look at how we’re building the biggest, most powerful satellites on orbit to support national security priorities, including Golden Dome. Just like Rep. Ellzey’s home state of Texas, everything is bigger at K2 – including our satellites’ size, power, and payload mass to support our customers’ complex mission needs.

I recently had the chance to meet with more of our industry partners in Southern California. On the ground, I found a cluster of companies modernizing to achieve the high ground in space, manufacture faster and cheaper, and bring the latest technology to the warfighter. Together, we are working towards a common goal of equipping our #Airmen and #Guardians faster to protect our great nation.

K2 Space was honored to recently host @SecAFOfficial Hon. Troy Meink at our California factory as we scale to build hundreds of large, high power satellites to support our warfighters and national security objectives.

🎙️ Today on the podcast: a conversation with @neelkunjur of @K2SpaceCo, checking in with their progress over the last few years (including their first flown missions!), how they are adjusting to industry changes and movements, and where they go from here. mainenginecutoff.com/podcast…

K2 Space's Co-Founder and CTO @neelkunjur returned to the @WeHaveMECO podcast with host @acolangelo to talk in-depth about K2's ongoing Gravitas mission (shown launching from Transporter-16 below), recent partnerships with @SES_Satellites and @anduriltech, and what's next as K2 approaches its four-year anniversary. Give it a listen here: mainenginecutoff.com/podcast…

K2 Space is building bigger, more powerful satellites to support the unique mission needs of our customers, including the @USSpaceForce's Space Test Program (STP). Our first satellite mission Gravitas is testing and validating multiple STP payloads in orbit, like the one pictured below, to provide valuable scientific data for STP’s research and development initiatives. This payload partnership is facilitated through the Pentagon’s STRATFI and TACFI programs, which help scale defense capabilities from the prototype to the operational level.

🚨 🇺🇸 Launching Factory Floor Fridays, EXIM’s new series spotlighting American manufacturers and the workers building the future here at home. Great first visit to @K2SpaceCo in Torrance, CA. Their next-generation satellite manufacturing showcases how the U.S. is building the industries of the future and strengthening America’s global competitiveness. 🇺🇸🏭

K2 Space was honored to recently welcome President and Chairman of the @EximBankUS, @JJovanovicUSA, to our California factory for a close-up view of how we’re scaling to build hundreds of large, powerful satellites right here in the U.S. As a startup manufacturer building 85 percent of our satellite components in house, we appreciate Chairman Jovanovic’s focus on strengthening American competitiveness through secure supply chains and strategic investment in emerging technologies. Learn more: exim.gov/news/exim-launches-…

.@KaranKunjur discusses why SES signed a 30-sat deal with K2 over legacy satellite manufacturers. "They did two Boeing satellites per launch vehicle. And the way they were deploying it was one Falcon 9, two Boeing satellites. And that's the way they did their constellation." "Obviously, you can't do a 100-satellite constellation like that. Ours are $15M per satellite. We stack up to 10 per Falcon 9. Suddenly, a 100-satellite constellation in MEO becomes in range." @itsmoislam

“Take any application mission happening on the ground or in the air today, & in 5 years we’re going to be doing it in space.” @KaranKunjur CEO of @K2SpaceCo “We started K2 to build the highest-power, largest satellites that ever existed.” “Customers ranging from orbital data centers to Golden Dome that are excited about what we’re doing.”

K2 Space is proud to announce that we are partnering with @anduriltech on the Pentagon’s Golden Dome missile defense program. K2 will be providing our proven Mega-class satellites to host Space Based Interceptors. Our satellites are bigger and more powerful than anything on orbit, and we’re thrilled to be selected for Golden Dome to demonstrate what these high power, high payload mass satellites can bring to the warfighter. Read more from our partner Anduril here: anduril.com/news/anduril-tea…