Founded in 2017 by Stefan Powell, Jeroen Wink, Tobias Knop, James Powell and Robert Werner, Dawn is a purpose-driven space company.  

Our talented team comprises over 130 people split 50/50 between the Netherlands and New Zealand, and sales in the USA. 
 
To develop our space transportation network, we’re providing and developing several technologies – we're a leading supplier of turnkey, green-propulsion systems for various classes of satellites. Our systems utilise safe, accessible propellants and have flown on Falcon 9, Vega and Soyuz rockets.

Beyond our well-established commercial offering of in-space propulsion, we continuously work on R&D programmes. Our Mk-II Aurora spaceplane demonstrator has completed 50 successful flights, and we recently completed the first campaign utilising rocket engines. Mk-II is unique in that it combines the performance of a rocket and the rapid reusability and economic model of an aircraft. While Mk-II is a technology demonstrator, it will also be used as a suborbital vehicle for climate and scientific payloads. Longer-term, Mk-II will inform the design of our orbital vehicle used to launch satellites, the Mk-III.