The Exploration Company website screenshot

The Exploration Company

The Exploration Company GmbH is a European space transportation startup building reusable space vehicles "for humanity." Its flagship program, Nyx, is a reusable capsule designed to carry cargo and, eventually, crew between Earth and low Earth orbit destinations such as commercial space stations, featuring orbital propulsion, autonomous docking, and re-entry recovery. The company is also developing Storm, a high-thrust reusable rocket engine (up to 180 tons of thrust) built through European partnerships toward a globally competitive launcher. Backed by Balderton Capital and a certified B Corp, it markets itself as one of the fastest-growing space startups in the world. The company operates a marketing and careers web presence but publishes no public developer program, API, SDKs, or machine-readable API artifacts at this time. Surfaced as a Balderton Capital portfolio company and enriched in the API Evangelist network with verified identity and domain-security signals.

The Exploration Company is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Space, Aerospace, Space Transportation, and Reusable Spacecraft.

The Exploration Company’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, and 6 more developer resources.

🌐 Visit website 📡 Source on GitHub
8.1/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
0 APIs
CompanySpaceAerospaceSpace TransportationReusable SpacecraftLaunch VehiclesRocket EnginesDeep TechHardware

Kin Score

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 8.1/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
Improve this rating by publishing the missing artifacts — every area above can be raised, and the full rubric is at apis.io/rating/. This rating is computed from github.com/api-evangelist/exploration: open an issue to ask a question, or submit a pull request to add artifacts. Want it done for you? Prioritized profiling — $2,500 →

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Exploration Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support

Company 6

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 About
About
 Blog
Blog
 Careers
Careers
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Instagram
Instagram

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: exploration
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/exploration.png
name: The Exploration Company
description: The Exploration Company GmbH is a European space transportation startup building reusable space vehicles "for
  humanity." Its flagship program, Nyx, is a reusable capsule designed to carry cargo and, eventually, crew between Earth
  and low Earth orbit destinations such as commercial space stations, featuring orbital propulsion, autonomous docking, and
  re-entry recovery. The company is also developing Storm, a high-thrust reusable rocket engine (up to 180 tons of thrust)
  built through European partnerships toward a globally competitive launcher. Backed by Balderton Capital and a certified
  B Corp, it markets itself as one of the fastest-growing space startups in the world. The company operates a marketing and
  careers web presence but publishes no public developer program, API, SDKs, or machine-readable API artifacts at this time.
  Surfaced as a Balderton Capital portfolio company and enriched in the API Evangelist network with verified identity and
  domain-security signals.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/exploration/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- balderton-capital
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Space
- Aerospace
- Space Transportation
- Reusable Spacecraft
- Launch Vehicles
- Rocket Engines
- Deep Tech
- Hardware
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/exploration-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.exploration.space/
- type: About
  url: https://www.exploration.space/about
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.exploration.space/blog
- type: Support
  url: https://www.exploration.space/contact
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.exploration.space/careers
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/exploration-company/
- type: Instagram
  url: https://www.instagram.com/theexplorationcompany/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence