JEREMY SCHIEL

Age: 28 • Cofounder, Orbit Fab

Schiel’s Colorado-based aerospace startup has raised more than $14 million from investors including Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman to build celestial gas stations. “The space industry lacks the cheap energy source to allow people and companies to move goods and services,” says Schiel, who cofounded Orbit Fab with Daniel Faber in 2018. He’s developing orbiting tanks and refueling shuttles to fill up satellites running low on the propellants required to maneuver in space. In October, he signed a $13 million contract with the government to deliver hydrazine fuel to Space Force satellites in 2025.