# The Exploration Company

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/the-exploration-company/  
**Website:** https://www.exploration.space/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

The Exploration Company (TEC) is a European deep-tech space startup founded in July 2021 by Hélène Huby and a team of aerospace engineers from Airbus and ArianeGroup. Headquartered in Munich, Germany with sites in Bordeaux, Oberpfaffenhofen, Italy, France, Houston, and the MENA region, TEC develops Nyx, a family of modular, reusable, in-orbit refuelable spacecraft designed to carry cargo — and eventually humans — to low Earth orbit, lunar orbit, and the Moon, serving space stations and long-distance research missions. The company has raised a €40.5M Series A and a €150M Series B and is a certified B Corp. It exposes no public developer API; interfaces are provided to payload customers via a Payload User's Guide.

## Kin Score — 10.6 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 10.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 7.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Deep Tech, Space, Aerospace, Spacecraft, Reusable Spacecraft, Space Transportation, Cargo Capsule, Munich, Germany

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/the-exploration-company/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.