Vaya Defense & Space is Florida's Space Coast hometown propulsion company — designing, building, testing, and preparing to launch the world's safest, simplest, and most sustainable rocket propulsion systems from a single campus in Cocoa, FL.
Talk to our engineers —>"Go with God."
The last words spoken to the Crew of Endeavour before liftoff of STS-59 — the mission commanded by Vaya Defense & Space founder Sid Gutierrez. The phrase became the inspiration for the company's name and its founding purpose: to make the safest space and defense systems in the world.
Sid Gutierrez founded Vaya Space in 2017 to create a safer way to space — drawing on his experience as a Space Shuttle Commander to build propulsion technology that is non-explosive, non-toxic, and simpler than anything that came before. Vaya develops breakthrough hybrid propulsion and rocket technologies that are non-explosive, non-toxic, and reliable — bringing safety and simplicity to launch, in-space propulsion, and America's warfighters.
Vaya Space develops advanced hybrid propulsion systems for defense and space applications. With active programs under the US Army, US Air Force, DARPA, and industry partners, Vaya's patented Vortex-Hybrid engine is the leading hybrid propulsion platform under US defense development.
