Northwood Space

Northwood Space is an El Segundo, California ground-infrastructure company for the space industry, founded in 2022 by Bridgit Mendler (CEO), Griffin Cleverly (CTO), and Shaurya Luthra. It designs and delivers rapidly deployable satellite ground stations built on electronically steerable phased-array antennas that track many satellites at once with no moving parts, paired with software ("Portal") that orchestrates every contact, automates scheduling, and moves data from spacecraft to customer. Northwood aims to turn ground infrastructure into cloud-like, on-demand global capacity for defense and commercial operators. The company's software stack is described as developer-oriented with modern APIs and integration hooks, but it publishes no public developer portal, API documentation, or SDKs at this time. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Founders Fund, Washington Harbour Partners, and Alpine Space Ventures; raised a $100M Series B and won a $50M Space Force contract in early 2026.

Northwood Space is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Space, Satellite, Ground Station, and Aerospace.

Northwood Space’s developer surface includes engineering blog and 3 more developer resources.

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9.3/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 9.3/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 2.1 / 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
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Security Posture 1

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

Northwood Space Domain Security

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Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

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Commercial 1

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Company 2

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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: northwood-space
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name: Northwood Space
description: Northwood Space is an El Segundo, California ground-infrastructure company for the space industry, founded in
  2022 by Bridgit Mendler (CEO), Griffin Cleverly (CTO), and Shaurya Luthra. It designs and delivers rapidly deployable satellite
  ground stations built on electronically steerable phased-array antennas that track many satellites at once with no moving
  parts, paired with software ("Portal") that orchestrates every contact, automates scheduling, and moves data from spacecraft
  to customer. Northwood aims to turn ground infrastructure into cloud-like, on-demand global capacity for defense and commercial
  operators. The company's software stack is described as developer-oriented with modern APIs and integration hooks, but it
  publishes no public developer portal, API documentation, or SDKs at this time. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Founders
  Fund, Washington Harbour Partners, and Alpine Space Ventures; raised a $100M Series B and won a $50M Space Force contract
  in early 2026.
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x-tier: stub
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specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Space
- Satellite
- Ground Station
- Aerospace
- Defense
- Infrastructure
- Communications
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maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
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  email: info@apis.io
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  url: security/northwood-space-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.northwoodspace.io/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.northwoodspace.io/blog
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.northwoodspace.io/privacy-policy