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Defense and Space ManufacturingCalifornia, United States51-200 Employees
Astrolab is a defense and space manufacturing company headquartered in Hawthorne, California, with 51-200 employees. It focuses on designing, building, and operating a fleet of multi-purpose commercial planetary rovers to extend humanity’s presence on distant planetary bodies. The company is American-owned and American-operated, drawing on more than five decades of experience in terrestrial and planetary robotics, electric vehicles, human spaceflight, and intelligence field operations, supported by a manufacturing, integration and test facility aimed at reliable lunar and Mars mobility solutions. Its culture emphasizes trust, balance, diverse perspectives, purposeful action, and making an impact. In recent activity, Astrolab has developed rover programs such as adapting the FLEX architecture to create the Crewed Lunar Vehicle (CLV-1) and pursuing lunar terrain vehicle development, while establishing agreements with NASA centers to fly payloads on its FLIP rover and engaging in private partnerships.