Axiom Space Redomiciles to Texas, Building the Space Ecosystem to Enable Humanity's Future

Axiom Space's CEO and President Dr. Jonathan Cirtain and Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced Axiom Space has redomiciled the company's legal headquarters in Texas. Credit: Axiom Space

HOUSTON, June 23, 2026 - Axiom Space, the leader in commercial human space exploration, today announced it has officially changed the company's legal domicile from Delaware to Texas, planting its roots deeper in the state that shares its conviction: what happens in space profoundly shapes life on Earth.

The move aligns the company's legal home with its operational headquarters in Houston, anchoring Axiom Space fully in the heart of the American space industry and the community it has called home since its founding in 2016.

"Texas has demonstrated, consistently and deliberately, that it wants innovative companies to thrive here and has built the policy and regulatory framework accordingly," said Dr. Jonathan Cirtain, CEO and President of Axiom Space. "For Axiom Space, establishing Texas as both our operational and legal home puts us squarely in a state that understands our mission, supports our industry, and shares in what we are working to achieve."

Texas is actively transforming into the nerve center of the new space economy. The state has made bold financial and infrastructural commitments, building a business environment designed to turn ambition into reality. That ambition mirrors Axiom Space's own mission: to make low-Earth orbit (LEO) a permanent laboratory and platform for solving humanity's greatest challenges, from medicine and materials to manufacturing and more.

Axiom Space's presence in Texas is already generating tangible impact. The company is a growing contributor to the state's economy and workforce, employing approximately 700 people, the majority of whom are in Texas, and pioneering the next generation of space infrastructure that will allow industries to achieve in microgravity what is simply impossible on Earth. The breakthroughs enabled onboard Axiom Station will not stay in orbit. They will return as new therapies, new materials, new technologies, and new possibilities for people everywhere.

The company's Houston footprint reflects its mission at every level. Its Assembly Integration and Test Facility, built as an anchor tenant at the Houston Spaceport, a federally licensed commercial spaceport at Ellington Airport, is where Axiom Station modules will complete final assembly and integration before ascending to orbit, ensuring the United States maintains its leadership in LEO. Nearby, the Space Station Development Facility drives the design and mission services work that will define the orbital economy of tomorrow. And in Axiom Space's spacesuit lab, engineers are crafting the next generation spacesuit that will return humanity to the lunar surface for the first time in more than 50 years.

The redomicile also builds on extraordinary momentum seen through Texas space policy. The state legislature established the Space Exploration & Aeronautics Research Fund (SEARF) in 2023 with a $150-million appropriation to catalyze research, infrastructure, and technology development, as well as a $200-million allocation for the Texas A&M Space Institute, a multi-tenant facility designed to advance lunar and Mars systems. In 2025, the legislature approved an additional $300 million in grants. Together with the oversight and advocacy of the Texas Space Commission, this state-backed investment is creating a powerful gravitational pull for companies committed to long-term growth in space and to delivering the benefits of that growth back to Earth.

Axiom Space is one of the direct beneficiaries of this commitment, having been awarded a $5.5 million SEARF grant to advance its orbital computing capabilities, expanding Axiom Space's role from hardware builder to comprehensive space infrastructure provider and bringing the processing power of orbit to bear on problems that matter on the ground.

At its core, Axiom Space exists to ensure that humanity never loses its footing in LEO and that the extraordinary environment of microgravity remains open, accessible, and productive for the scientists, innovators, and industries that can use it to change the world below. That work is led from Texas, grounded in Houston, and aimed at a future that is as boundless as space itself.

"Texas has demonstrated, consistently and deliberately, that it wants innovative companies to thrive here and has built the policy and regulatory framework accordingly. For Axiom Space, establishing Texas as both our operational and legal home puts us squarely in a state that understands our mission, supports our industry, and shares in what we are working to achieve."

Dr. Jonathan Cirtain
CEO and President, Axiom Space