Vast (company)

Vast Space
Company typePrivately held company
Industry
Founded2021 in El Segundo, California, U.S.
FounderJed McCaleb[1]
Headquarters,
United States
Key people
OwnerJed McCaleb
Number of employees
606+ (October 2024[3])
SubsidiariesLauncher
Websitevastspace.com

Vast (also styled Vast Space) is a privately held American aerospace company headquartered in Long Beach, California. It was founded in 2021 by entrepreneur Jed McCaleb with the goal of developing artificial gravity space stations to "expand humanity beyond the solar system".[4]

  1. ^ a b "Vast Space Becomes the Newest Member of "Space Beach"". BusinessWire. 10 January 2023. Archived from the original on 6 April 2023. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  2. ^ "Vast Appoints Max Haot as its New CEO and Alex Hudson as its First CTO". Business Wire. 11 August 2023. Archived from the original on 12 August 2023. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
  3. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOjM2B3vPac
  4. ^ Warner, Debra (15 September 2022). "Vast Space to develop artificial-gravity space station". SpaceNews. Archived from the original on 24 February 2024. Retrieved 11 May 2023.