Advanced Space

Advanced Space is a space technology company founded in 2011 and based in North Boulder, Colorado. It works in orbital mechanics, trajectory design, flight dynamics and spacecraft navigation, delivering advanced trajectory design, navigation strategies and flight dynamics solutions intended to turn ambitious mission concepts into operational reality. Its work spans civil space, commercial space, international space, national security space and space exploration.

The company's product and service lines include Mission Enabling Services, Technology & Software Solutions and Mission Solutions. The GEO Parker Transfer, an orbital transfer and trajectory innovation, was the founding technology of the company. Its most prominent project is CAPSTONE, a cislunar pathfinder mission for NASA's Artemis programme that demonstrated proprietary peer-to-peer navigation capabilities and made Advanced Space the first commercial entity to orbit a spacecraft in the vicinity of the Moon.

Advanced Space grew from fewer than 15 team members in 2019 to over 55 by 2023. The company was founded on a shared vision among space advocates and states a commitment to enabling the sustainable exploration, development and settlement of space. Co-founders Bradley Cheetham and Jeffrey Parker led the founding team, whose members invested personally and worked without pay in the early years, operating out of shared office space above a mattress store in North Boulder.