Jaguar Space

Jaguar Space is a bioastronautics consulting and access-to-space firm headquartered in Colorado, USA, with deep roots in Central America. Founded by Dr. Luis Zea — a scientist with over 25 spaceflight payloads to his name, including missions to the International Space Station and NASA's Artemis I — Jaguar Space helps customers across government, academia, and industry turn space into a competitive advantage through expert advisory services and direct mission execution.

The company specializes in market creation strategies, techno-economic analyses, strategic science and technology roadmaps, academic space program curricula development, and Latin American space ecosystem navigation. Jaguar Space holds particular expertise in designing, developing, and operating spaceflight experiments and hardware using NASA's systems engineering approach, as well as facilitating customer discovery and scientific merit review for space-centric business models.

Jaguar Space is committed to democratizing access to space for underserved regions, especially Central America. The company runs a Call for Proposals program that funds emerging space projects from countries including Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama, offering up to $5,000 per cycle to accelerate the regional space economy.

Through its active payload programs — OASIS, WORLD SEEDS, and MICROBREW-1 — Jaguar Space has executed multiple experiments aboard NASA's Crew-11 mission to the ISS in 2025, investigating topics from plant growth in Martian regolith simulant to fermentation in microgravity. These missions reflect the company's broader mission: making space science accessible and beneficial to nations and communities that have historically lacked space access.