Orbital logistics: Unleashing space industry, from Earth to asteroids
Company is active
Event Year: 2021
Company is active
Event Year: 2021
TransAstra Corporation is actively shaping the burgeoning space economy through the development of innovative technologies. Backed by five issued patents and over a dozen pending, the company has already generated over $5 million in revenue. Their core innovation, the Omnivore propulsion system, enables spacecraft, including the Worker Bee orbital transfer vehicle (OTV), to utilize water or other fluids as propellant, powered solely by concentrated sunlight. This offers a faster, more cost-effective, and practical alternative to electric propulsion, while also being safer and more flexible than traditional chemical propulsion. Complementing this, the Sutter Telescope System excels at identifying resource-rich asteroids and orbital debris, surpassing the capabilities of existing technologies. This system also serves government clients by detecting fast-moving objects between Earth and the Moon, addressing a critical need for national defense. Currently deployed in ground-based observatories, Sutter is poised for commercial data sales, having already tracked numerous faint moving objects. Once space-based, Sutter promises to revolutionize space-based observation with unparalleled cost-effectiveness.
TransAstra Corporation is actively shaping the burgeoning space economy through the development of innovative technologies. Backed by five issued patents and over a dozen pending, the company has already generated over $5 million in revenue. Their core innovation, the Omnivore propulsion system, enables spacecraft, including the Worker Bee orbital transfer vehicle (OTV), to utilize water or other fluids as propellant, powered solely by concentrated sunlight. This offers a faster, more cost-effective, and practical alternative to electric propulsion, while also being safer and more flexible than traditional chemical propulsion. Complementing this, the Sutter Telescope System excels at identifying resource-rich asteroids and orbital debris, surpassing the capabilities of existing technologies. This system also serves government clients by detecting fast-moving objects between Earth and the Moon, addressing a critical need for national defense. Currently deployed in ground-based observatories, Sutter is poised for commercial data sales, having already tracked numerous faint moving objects. Once space-based, Sutter promises to revolutionize space-based observation with unparalleled cost-effectiveness.
Total Raised: Unknown (Y Combinator backed)
Last Round: Summer 2021
Total Raised: Unknown (Y Combinator backed)
Last Round: Summer 2021
Industrials
Industrials
Industrials -> Aviation and Space
Industrials -> Aviation and Space
Team size: 8
Hiring: Yes
Team size: 8
Hiring: Yes
