OUR VISION:

Life on earth.
Sustained from Space.

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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.

3launch sites in Europe - all above 60°N, all polar-locked
1 of 6,900orbital launches in history flown from EU soil
Up to 5 yearswait time with foreign launch providers

"What we have is an industry in panic." - Caleb Henry, Quilty Space (Ars Technica, Aug 2026)

OUR MISSION

BUILD THE MOST COST EFFICIENT WAY TO SHIP TO SPACE.

Reusable sea-launched rocket.

  • 6,000 KG TO LEO
  • 9 x RAGNAROK ENGINES
  • KRAKEN BALLAST MODULE - AUTONOMOUS DEPLOYMENT AND FUELLING
  • FIRST STAGE: FULLY REUSABLE
Exploded view of Draken: fairing and payload, second stage, first stage, and the Kraken ballast module

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.

  1. 01 SEA LAUNCH
  2. 02 ASCENT
  3. 03 FAIRING OPENS
  4. 04 DEPLOYMENT
  5. 05 FLIP MANEUVER
  6. 06 LANDING BURN
  7. 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
TROLL A UNDER TOW - THE TALLEST MAN MADE OBJECT EVER MOVED, 1.2 MILLION TONNES PHOTO: STATOIL / EQUINOR

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.

OUR ROCKET IN FRONT OF THE ULLRIGG OIL RIG AT ULLANDHAUG, STAVANGER

The same spirit that built the oil age is building the new space age.

DIDRIK
TYR
BOREALIS 1
BOREALIS 2
PHOENIX 1

THE LAUNCH PAD

2021 - 2025

A better starting point than any launch company in history: five rockets launched and three engines built by the founding team. Daniel founded UiS Aerospace and recruited 187 engineers into it, then co-founded NORSTEC and grew it from zero to 650 members across 11 organizations.

SPACE LAB

OCT 2025

Space Lab is founded. Zero to 17 employees, a space lab built in Stavanger, the first engine shipped, all in under a year.

PHOENIX 2

2027

Phoenix 2 flies to space on a next generation engine, developed at Space Lab.

RAGNAROK AND DRAKEN S

2028 - 2029

The orbital-class Ragnarok engine reaches full scale. Qualification flights of the sea-launched system.

ORBIT

2030

Draken lifts 6 tonnes to low Earth orbit. First commercial flights.

THE VISION

20XX

Asteroid mining. In-space production. Life on earth, sustained from Space. Blink and you'll miss it.

The shipbuilders.

Aiken Midttveit
Andreas Nilsen
Daniel C. Varming
Fredrik Salte
Harald Domås
Isabel Fink
Jørgen Narmo Hammervold
Richard Pettys
Runar Sunde
Vegard Richter

STRATEGIC ANGEL INVESTORS

Aleksander L. LarsenCo-founder, Sky Mavis. Founder and CEO, Stendr.

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.

Jonas HelmikstølFounder, Easee. CEO, Startflow.

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.

Truls BrataasCo-founder, Db.

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

Pete WordenFormer Director, NASA Ames. Chair, Breakthrough Initiatives.
Ole DokkaFounder, Spaceport Norway.
Bjørn Ottar ElsethFormer Head of Space Transportation, Norwegian Space Agency.
Brage JohansenCo-founder, Zaptec. CEO, Spectrum Blue.

"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."

- Pete Worden, former Director, NASA Ames - Chair, Breakthrough Initiatives
Skyfall Ventures Startuplab

SHIP TO SPACE

Tell us what you are flying.

Destination and mass in, a price out. Expect a number that reads like a typo.

SPACE LAB - MISSION CONSOLE

Service
Payload mass
When can it fly?
Describe yourself