SPACE MINING · OPERATOR PROFILE · DATA AS OF 2026-07-28

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.

64.1

ARI Composite

Very Low Risk

#1 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

64.1

ARI composite · Very Low Risk

Peer rank#1 of 33

Peer groupInfrastructure

Data coverage53%

Tracked gov contracts$20.28B across 446 awards

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CAPITAL & CREDIT PROFILE

Government capital

$20.28B lifetime tracked obligations across 446 awards — top agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration ($20.26B) (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

Full deal history →

SECTOR POSITION

Primary sectorSpace Mining

Rank within sector#1 of 33

Tracked peers33

Secondary sectors

EO & GEOINT

RECENT COVERAGE

Date	Source	Headline
Jul 26, 2026	NASASpaceFlight	Juno reveals surprising subsurface tempertures at Io, remarkably smooth surface
Jul 23, 2026	Payload Space	NASA Puts $2B Price Tag on Nuclear Mars Mission
Jul 04, 2026	NASASpaceFlight	Vast’s Haven-1 continues to advance through milestones ahead of planned 2027 launch
Jul 01, 2026	NASASpaceFlight	NASA announces new lander contracts for Moon Base Phase One
Jun 30, 2026	Ars Technica — Space	NASA may send a backup, nuclear-powered Mars rover to the Moon

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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