SPACE MINING · OPERATOR PROFILE · DATA AS OF 2026-09-11

Caltech / JPL

Active Space Mining Government HQ: Pasadena, California Founded 1891

Caltech manages NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory under FFRDC agreement. JPL is NASA's primary center for robotic planetary exploration. Contract awards appear under 'California Institute of Technology' in USASpending records.

63.9

ARI Composite

Very Low Risk

#2 of 33

Peer Rank

Infrastructure cohort

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Total Launches

No flights tracked

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Estimated valuation

Not disclosed

FINANCIAL HEALTH

63.9

ARI composite · Very Low Risk

Peer rank#2 of 33

Peer groupInfrastructure

Data coverage53%

Tracked gov contracts$20.54B across 470 awards

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CAPITAL & CREDIT PROFILE

Government capital

$20.54B lifetime tracked obligations across 470 awards — top agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration ($20.52B) (strict id-matched; unattributed award rows are excluded). Explore grants →
Source: USAspending.gov award obligations matched to this company. Obligations, not recognized revenue.

RECENT DEALS & CONTRACTS

Date	Type	Amount	Counterparty	Significance
Jul 01, 2026	Contract Award	$600.0M	NASA	High
May 29, 2026	Contract Award	$6.9M	National Aeronautics and Space Administration, CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY	Medium
May 27, 2026	Contract Award	$234.0M	NASA, Blue Origin	High
May 26, 2026	Contract Award	$4.4M	National Aeronautics and Space Administration, CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY	Low
May 20, 2026	Contract Award	$1.5M	National Aeronautics and Space Administration, CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY	Medium

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SECTOR POSITION

Primary sectorSpace Mining

Rank within sector#2 of 33

Tracked peers33

Secondary sectors

EO & GEOINT

RECENT COVERAGE

Date	Source	Headline
Aug 29, 2026	Spaceflight Now	Roman Space Telescope, NASA’s next ‘great observatory,’ poised for Sunday launch
Aug 29, 2026	Spaceflight Now	Roman Space Telescope, NASA’s next ‘great observatory,’ launched
Aug 17, 2026	USAspending.gov	Administration Awards $10.4M to CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY for STANDALONE ORBIT TO LANDING OPNAV (SOLO) SENSOR DEVELOPMENT (40-232608)
Aug 09, 2026	NASASpaceFlight	Artemis progress building lunar return roadmap
Aug 05, 2026	USAspending.gov	Administration Awards $1.0M to CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY for JPL'S MASTER PLANNING

REGISTRY DATA

Legal nameCalifornia Institute of Technology

OwnershipGovernment

HeadquartersPasadena, California

CountryUS

Founded1891

AliasesCaltech, California Institute of Technology, CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, JPL, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech/JPL

SubsidiariesJet Propulsion Laboratory

Key programsMars rovers (Curiosity, Perseverance), Europa Clipper, Psyche, Cassini, Voyager (ops)

Gov customersNASA

IPO statusN/A — FFRDC / University

Source: space_company_registry.json · Operator homepage → · Caltech official site — confirms operational management of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and SPHEREx / Mars Sample Return programs.

METHODOLOGY

Launch history and subsystem outcomes aggregate from AstraVeris's launch_events table with Wilson 95% lower bounds on success rates. ARI scores come from the 11-factor composite (/finance/methodology/). Constellation counts derive from the live CelesTrak/GCAT object catalog. Gov contracts from USAspending.gov awards; private deals from deduplicated pipeline deal extraction. Absence of a row means "not tracked" — we never fabricate. See /methodology/ for the full data model and /data-licensing/ for licensing terms.

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