SEC filings have lifted the veil on a quiet Golden Dome supplier: Seattle-area startup Gravitics is building three Orbital Carrier spacecraft for Lockheed Martin and planning to go public through a reverse merger.
The carrier is a large orbital platform built to hold five or six smaller spacecraft, keep them protected in orbit, and release them when a mission calls. Gravitics describes the system in its filings as support for rapid-response and counterspace operations in Earth orbit and cislunar space, work it ties directly to Space Force space-superiority goals.
Lockheed Martin Space signed a time-and-materials subcontract on May 26 covering three flight-ready carriers, according to a filing dated Aug. 19. Gravitics frames the deal as the platform’s first production order, pointing to “multiple flight opportunities in an accelerated fielding plan set by the Space Force.” The filing lists the definitized value at $249,900. Gravitics enters the effort through Lockheed, one of 12 firms holding Space Force prototype agreements for space-based interceptors in a contest spanning 20 awards worth up to $3.2B.
The public-market plan runs through a merger with Non-Invasive Monitoring Systems, a Florida shell with no operating business. The combined firm would become Gravitics Holdings, raise $125M in a stock offering, and list on Nasdaq under GVTX, with completion targeted by Sept. 30.
Gravitics is also readying Viper OTX for missions launched from the carrier. The two systems advance under a Space Force STRATFI agreement pairing $30M in government funding with $30M in private money, with demonstrations planned for 2027 and 2028.
