Rockville-based company Quantum Space is building the next generation of advanced maneuverable spacecraft to disrupt the orbital economy.
Rockville, MD — June 8, 2026– Quantum Space, LLC (the “Company” or “Quantum Space”), a company building the next generation of advanced maneuverable spacecraft to disrupt the orbital economy, and Inflection Point Acquisition Corp. VI (Nasdaq: IPFX) (“Inflection Point”), a special purpose acquisition company, today announced that they have entered into a definitive business combination agreement (the “Business Combination Agreement”), under which Quantum Space will become a publicly traded company.
Quantum Space was co-founded by Dr. Kam Ghaffarian, the Company’s Executive Chairman and a visionary entrepreneur and co-founder of commercial space and energy companies. The Company is led by CEO Jim Bridenstine, a former NASA Administrator, naval aviator, and member of Congress.
Bridenstine and the rest of the Quantum Space management team are committed to building the leading space mobility platform, with its flagship vehicle, Ranger, as the foundation of future growth and value creation. Ranger will pair single-fuel, multi-mode propulsion with one of the largest storable fuel capacities in its class at more than 4,000+ kg, a refuellable and modular architecture and an operational life of up to 15 years. Protected by a deep patent portfolio, Ranger is being engineered to reach geosynchronous orbit (GEO) and beyond, with up to 70% lower cost than conventional architectures beyond low earth orbit (LEO), based on management estimates and internal analysis.
Quantum Space believes Ranger’s favorable cost economics, maneuverability, and persistence will distinguish it from any spacecraft currently in operation. The platform is being engineered to operate autonomously across orbits critical to U.S. national security, including LEO, the most congested and contested domain, and medium earth orbit, which hosts GPS fleets. From there, Ranger reaches GEO, where critical national security satellites maintain continuous coverage, and on to cislunar space, the strategic high ground between Earth and the Moon.
The Company has achieved significant market traction, attracting a diverse customer base that spans the full breadth of the U.S. national security space enterprise. The Company has six contracts and pending proposals with the U.S. Space Force, the Department of War, DARPA, and the Air Force Research Laboratory and has identified a pipeline of additional opportunities which the Company’s management estimates to have an unweighted estimated value of more than $5 billion across the national security, civil, and commercial space markets. Anchoring this portfolio is the Company’s contract award under the U.S. Space Force’s flagship Andromeda program, an IDIQ vehicle with a ceiling value of $6.2 billion (representing the maximum shared contract value across 14 contract awardees) aimed at fielding a proliferated constellation of maneuverable, refuellable spacecraft in GEO. The Company has not yet been allocated any specific amount of funding under this contract.
“I founded Quantum Space to build a company I believe the United States needs to lead in this contested era — and we now have the platform, technology, and team to work to shift paradigms. As NASA Administrator, Jim Bridenstine helped shape the creation of the U.S. Space Force and laid the foundation for the national security space enterprise we serve today. With Jim at the helm, we are positioned to disrupt the orbital economy and lead the shift from a launch-defined era to a mobility-defined one, with Ranger built to define it”
— Kam Ghaffarian, Executive Chairman and Co-Founder, Quantum Space
“We have designed Ranger to satisfy the U.S. Space Force’s Theory of Competitive Endurance: avoiding operational surprise, denying first-mover advantage, and enabling counter-space campaigning. We believe Ranger will enable us to meet accelerating demand in an environment where sustained maneuverability is no longer optional. Being a public company will better allow us to scale production, deliver on the contracts we’ve already won, and serve new national security, civil, and commercial customers who have been waiting for this platform.”
— Jim Bridenstine, CEO, Quantum Space
“Quantum Space is defining the space national security industry at a pivotal moment for American space preeminence. Its differentiated, highly maneuverable spacecraft has already earned meaningful traction with the U.S. national security space enterprise, including six contracts and pending proposals, as well as selection on the U.S. Space Force’s flagship Andromeda program.”
— Michael Blitzer, Chairman, Inflection Point
“Kam Ghaffarian and Jim Bridenstine have played central roles in the sector’s most consequential programs of the past decade,” Blitzer continued. “Their vision for Quantum Space arrives as defense spending, space infrastructure, and America’s strategic priorities in orbit are converging.”
Quantum Space’s operations are anchored by its engineering and mission development facility in Rockville, Maryland, and its propulsion and integration test facility in Hawthorne, California, as well as a spacecraft manufacturing center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that is currently in development.
About Quantum Space
Quantum Space is building the next generation of advanced maneuverable spacecraft for national security, civil and commercial space operations. Its mission centers on the Ranger platform: a highly maneuverable spacecraft designed to address the needs of national security and commercial operators. With patented propulsion, extended on-orbit endurance, and modular flexibility, Ranger is engineered to outmaneuver legacy satellites and operate dynamically across diverse mission sets. For more information, visit www.quantumspace.us.
Press release originally published by Quantum Space: https://www.quantumspace.us/blog/quantum-space-a-leading-space-defense-and-orbital-mobility-company-to-go-public-via-merger-with-inflection-point-acquisition-corp-vi
