Governor Greg Abbott announced that commercial aerospace leader Axiom Space has officially moved its corporate legal headquarters from Delaware to Texas. The move fully aligns the company’s legal residence with its physical, operational headquarters in Houston, where the firm has been anchored since its initial founding in 2016.
Governor Abbott met with corporate leadership to highlight the transition, asserting, “Texas has been the launchpad of spaceflight since its inception. We welcome Axiom Space’s decision to make Texas its legal residence and look forward to the progress they will achieve in our state.”
State officials noted that the relocation further cements Texas as the national leader in space-sector employment, supporting over 150,000 aerospace workers across the state, while NASA’s Johnson Space Center alone generates more than $9.8 billion in annual economic output.
Dr. Jonathan Cirtain, CEO and President of Axiom Space, praised the state’s proactive corporate ecosystem, stating that Texas has consistently and deliberately demonstrated that it wants innovative companies to thrive by building a robust policy and regulatory framework to back them up. Cirtain added that establishing Texas as both their operational and legal home positions the firm securely in a state that fundamentally understands its underlying mission and supports the long-term goals of the aerospace industry.
Axiom Space currently employs approximately 700 individuals—the majority of whom are based locally—and operates its Assembly Integration and Test Facility as an anchor tenant at the Houston Spaceport. Within its specialized Houston labs, the company’s engineers are actively designing next-generation spacesuits intended to return humans to the lunar surface while building Axiom Station, a commercial space facility designed to serve as the microgravity successor to the International Space Station (ISS).
The decision to redomicile mirrors a growing broader trend of high-profile companies abandoning Delaware’s corporate legal framework for Texas, a migration accelerated by the state’s targeted investments in its specialized aerospace ecosystem. To catalyze regional technology development, the Texas Legislature established the Space Exploration and Aeronautics Research Fund (SEARF) in 2023 with a $150 million initial appropriation, followed by an additional $300 million investment in 2025, alongside $200 million earmarked for the Texas A&M Space Institute.
Working in tandem with the strategic advocacy of the Texas Space Commission, these public funds are creating a powerful gravitational pull for the new space economy. In fact, Axiom Space is a direct beneficiary of these legislative programs, having secured a $5.5 million SEARF grant to advance its specialized orbital computing capabilities, allowing the company to expand its local footprint from hardware manufacturing to providing comprehensive, orbit-based data processing infrastructure.