OUR VISION:
Life on earth.
Sustained from Space.
Space is how Earth stays sustainable.
Society already runs on space: navigation, communication, weather and security are satellite infrastructure. The next step is heavier, moving energy, production and mining off-planet, so growth stops costing the Earth.
... but none of this is possible without cheap, reliable access to space.
"What we have is an industry in panic." - Caleb Henry, Quilty Space (Ars Technica, Aug 2026)
Reusable sea-launched rocket.
- 6,000 KG TO LEO
- 9 x RAGNAROK ENGINES
- KRAKEN BALLAST MODULE - AUTONOMOUS DEPLOYMENT AND FUELLING
- FIRST STAGE: FULLY REUSABLE
Kraken ballast module
Autonomous deployment and fuelling.
First stage
Fully reusable. Flies back and lands on the sea.
Lift capacity
6 tonnes to low Earth orbit, first orbital version.
Nine Ragnarok engines power Draken's first stage.
Methane and liquid oxygen, built to fly again.
- 01 SEA LAUNCH
- 02 ASCENT
- 03 FAIRING OPENS
- 04 DEPLOYMENT
- 05 FLIP MANEUVER
- 06 LANDING BURN
- 07 SEA LANDING & RECOVERY
We're revolutionizing the launch pad.
Logistics
Norway already tows million-tonne platforms across the North Sea. By offshore standards a rocket is light cargo - the ships, the crews and the yards all exist today.
Cost
Every land pad is built around one vehicle - grow the rocket and you demolish and start over. Rockets get cheaper per kilogram as they get bigger. We can follow that curve without rebuilding anything.
No pad at all
Europe's three spaceports are polar-locked. A launch site that sails is not: any inclination the mission needs, sea room to wait out weather, no shared range calendar.
Building out of Stavanger, Norway.
Norway has a very particular set of circumstances: offshore engineering and logistics, liquid natural gas - rocket fuel at industrial scale - and the means of production. A thousand years of operating on the sea. The talent is already here. The industry is ready for a launcher.
- LNG -162°C - OUR FUEL, PRODUCED HERE
- OFFSHORE LOGISTICS - FLOATING WIND, SUBSEA, DEEP WATER
- MARINE ENGINEERING - BUILT FOR THE NORTH SEA
1961 - FROM OIL TO THE MOON
NASA reached the Moon using oil and gas money, people and suppliers - Mission Control itself was built on land donated by an oil company.
1970s - FROM SPACE BACK TO OIL
Apollo technology built the modern oilfield: NASA structural software designed the North Sea platforms, and drilling control rooms were modeled on Mission Control.
TODAY - FROM OIL BACK TO SPACE
Space Lab is turning Norway's offshore industry into Europe's next launch company. Same suppliers. Same skills. New destination.
The same spirit that built the oil age is building the new space age.
Leadership.
Ex-ranger in the Norwegian border guard to Russia. Founder, UiS Aerospace and co-founder, NORSTEC.
Core vehicle architecture. Lead designer with rare technical and systems intuition.
Ex-Equinor. M.Sc. Risk Analysis. World Champion sailor (X35).
Two-time founder, ten years as CFO. Ex co-founder, Alva Industries. Ex CFO, Six Robotics.
Ten years of engineering at NASA. Founder of SparX Engineering.
The shipbuilders.
Ex NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Ex Epic Aircraft composites engineer.
STRATEGIC ANGEL INVESTORS
Co-founded Sky Mavis, the company behind Axie Infinity, and scaled it to five million players. Led the recovery after the 2022 attack, making every affected user whole. Now building AI-native defence systems at Stendr in Oslo.
Founded Easee in Stavanger and grew it into one of Norway's fastest-growing companies, named business of the year in the Stavanger region. Now CEO of Startflow.
Co-founded Db in Oslo with Jon Olsson to redefine travel gear, and grew it into a six-time Gazelle winner. EY Entrepreneur of the Year.
ADVISORS
"After forty years around space programs - including as director of NASA Ames - you see a lot of companies come and go, and you learn to recognize a winning team. The handful that went on to do important things shared a specific combination of technical depth and founder energy. Space Lab has what it takes to succeed in this field."
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