Mission Control Space Services said Wednesday it has raised $10 million in a mix of equity and bank debt, money the Ottawa maker of rover, autonomy and mission-operations technology will spend on research, rover design and production, and staff so it can take on larger missions.
GreenSky Ventures, the Toronto venture firm that led Mission Control’s $3.25-million seed round in 2023, led the equity portion, joined by new strategic investors the company’s release does not name. Scotiabank and its subsidiary Roynat Capital supplied senior debt, loans repaid ahead of other creditors, along with commercial banking facilities.
The company says it has expanded its Ottawa headquarters with research space, upgraded clean rooms, and an operations centre for lunar and deep-space missions. It has also opened a rover prototyping facility in St. Marys, Ont., near London.
Chief executive Ewan Reid said the money will let the company “pursue missions of greater scale and ambition.” That includes the Lunar Utility Rover, a vehicle meant to haul cargo and help astronauts on the Moon, which Ottawa has budgeted $1.2 billion over 13 years to design and build.
Mission Control is one of three companies, with Canadensys Aerospace and MDA Space, that the Canadian Space Agency awarded 18-month concept study contracts in July 2025. Mission Control’s is worth $4.7 million, and it has since brought Kinova and Magellan Aerospace onto its team.
Last week, Mission Control said it would supply the surface communications link for the United Arab Emirates’ Rashid Rover 2, due on the Moon’s far side in 2027.