AETHER
Building the backbone of space infrastructure
The next chapter for our species starts with what we build in orbit. We're working on making it real.
The Problem Nobody's Solving
We can get to space. We just can't do anything useful once we're there.
Space has an infrastructure problem. We solved getting there decades ago. But there's nothing waiting when you arrive. No supply lines. No construction yards. No places to live. Every mission starts from scratch, built bespoke, at enormous cost. That's not how you build a civilisation. That's how you run a science experiment.
The next great leap isn't a faster rocket or a flashier mission. It's the boring, essential systems that make everything else possible. The orbital equivalent of roads, ports, and power grids. Nobody's building them yet. That's where Aether comes in.
Think of it as AWS for space. The platform layer that everything else gets built on top of. That perspective comes from years in enterprise software, where the most valuable companies are the ones building infrastructure, not applications. Space needs the same thing.
What We're Building
Four integrated systems designed to turn space from a destination into a place where people can actually work and live.
Orbital Platforms
Modular construction and assembly platforms for low Earth orbit. Reconfigurable, expandable, autonomous. Spacecraft too large to launch in one piece get built here. Think shipyards, but 400km up.
Launch Systems
Heavy-lift vehicle architectures optimised for moving mass to orbit as cheaply and frequently as possible. 72-hour turnarounds, full reuse, zero refurbishment. Not sports cars. Trucks.
Deep Space Logistics
Autonomous cargo networks and supply routes between Earth, the Moon, and cislunar space. Missions refuel, resupply, and stage from orbit instead of carrying everything from launch.
Space Habitats
Pressurised living spaces with closed-loop life support, radiation shielding, and simulated gravity. Real places designed for crews of 20 to 200, with private quarters, labs, and greenhouses.
"The hard part was never getting to space. It's building a world up there worth living in."
That's the problem that gets us out of bed. Not the glory of launch day, but the decades of quiet engineering that will make everything after launch day possible.
We're going to build the power grids, the supply routes, the places people will call home. The invisible stuff. The stuff that turns space from a place you visit into a place you live. We're at the very beginning, and we're looking for believers.
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