We’re thrilled to welcome 12 exciting companies to the Fall ‘24 class of Techstars Space in partnership with NASA JPL and US Space Force. Get to know them all below! 🌟
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HQ: Oxfordshire, United Kingdom CEO: Eddie Brown
Email: [email protected] Description: Bringing full rocket reusability to the small scale to transform small satellite launch and medium duration microgravity and return services. Astron Systems’ fully reusable two stage vertically launched rocket, Aurora, will for most missions launch small satellites for lower cost than SpaceX’s Starship and with a better service, taking smallsats exactly where they want to go and exactly when they want to go there. Hello Tomorrow Aerospace Deep Tech Pioneers 2023 and 2024, supported by the European Space Agency and the UK Space Agency.
HQ: Huntsville, AL CEO: Felix Bustos III
Email: [email protected] Description: At ATRX, we’re building the leading Space Plane Ferry of Choice! Introducing Hummingbird, the world’s first horizontal launch single-stage-to-orbit space plane that can take off and land on any runway in the world.
HQ: Santa Clara, CA CEO: Guillermo Jenaro Rabadan
Email: [email protected] Description: We are building a next gen operations software platform, founded upon composite AI/ML based systems to make managing ground and space assets cheaper, faster and more intelligent. 35 Years of intersectional Aerospace and Silicon Valley Startup Innovation drives our new approach to world-spanning problems.
HQ: San Francisco, CA Founder: Yonatan Winetraub ****
Email: [email protected] Description: Aptos Orbital offers all-in-one AI and persistent comms for satellites. The Aptos Terminal is a low-SWAP device for satellites that combines space-hardened processors for running powerful AI, persistent comms for real-time intelligence, and cloud integration so satellites can become orbital nodes for existing applications. Aptos is already operating 3 units in space for a combined 5.5 years of orbital processing without failure. Since starting sales in January 2024, Aptos has signed pilots and demos for $1M of ARR, and representing over $90M of ARR at full rollout. Aptos’s current customers include everything from startups to global companies and government agencies.
HQ: Cambridge, MA CEO: Scarlett Koller
Email: [email protected] Description: Mithril is developing a new type of space-based reflector with active surface correction and shaping on orbit. This will allow groundbreaking improvements in atmospheric monitoring for climate resilience across various industries. It also stands to improve satellite communications flexibility and global intelligence capabilities.
HQ: Bangalore, India CEO: Richa Hukumchand
Email: [email protected] Description: Pramatra Space is a quantum security venture on a mission to make enterprises resilient against quantum attacks. The current encryption technology used to shield and protect data stands to become obsolete with the rise of quantum computers and generative AI, which will break current encryption in minutes. We are building satellites to distribute quantum keys to enterprises - a fail-safe encryption solution - to shield their sensitive and critical data.
Pramatra Space is on the mission to prepare the world for Q-Day !
HQ: Bellevue, WA CEO: Karl Stedman
Email: [email protected] Description: Pulse is cooking up scalable on-demand power and space situational awareness services in orbit. Basically, we’re making sure power is available as it’s needed while also tackling space junk.
HQ: Chicago, IL CEO: Steven Shumsky
Email: [email protected] Description: reOrbital is building defense systems for satellites to protect against anti-satellite attacks. Responding to the urgent call for more resilient space infrastructure, reOrbital’s bolt on systems can help protect traditional commercial and military satellites from emerging threats.
HQ: Cupertino, CA CEO: Vinay Simha
Email: [email protected] Description: At SkyServe, we’ve built powerful and resilient sensor-agnostic satellite data processing systems optimized to run on satellites. With one mission complete, one underway and one more to go this year, we are on-track to bring the capabilities we envisioned - near real-time monitoring & reporting, autonomous cross-constellation tasking and extreme compression - into operation.
HQ: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India CEO: Rifath Shaarook
Email: [email protected] Description: We provide space experiments and tech demos across LEO, deep space, the Moon, and beyond. Our products include unmanned labs, testbeds for dedicated and rideshare missions, and re-entry capsules for payload retrieval. We simplify space access with affordable pricing, end-to-end services, no minimum mass limits, zero integration fees, and fast deployment within 6 months, catering to industries like biotech, material science, defense, and more.
HQ: Sydney, Australia **** CEO: Taofiq Huq
Email: [email protected] Description: Defence and Intelligence agencies today struggle to see vehicles and structures beneath tree canopies with existing spy satellites. Spiral Blue is launching a constellation of LiDAR satellites to provide detailed situational awareness within forests anywhere on Earth. Our data also has applications in urban planning, disaster management, coastal erosion, agriculture, carbon accounting, and financial services. Our patented LiDAR technology builds on our Space Edge Computer, of which we’ve put 9 in orbit to date.
HQ: Sydney, Australia CEO: Alexander Ryan
Email: [email protected] Description: VXB is building a generative design platform to reimagine the economics of advanced hardware production, addressing a trillion-dollar market. Using an interactive heuristic approach, we have already demonstrated a 100x speed up in design time for electromagnetic space hardware like propulsion. Our platform searches billions of complex configurations to find high-performance designs humans couldn’t have.