EXTREME AEROSPACE MANUFACTURING
We manufacture ceramic matrix composites, ultra-high-temperature ceramics, and hypersonic thermal protection systems with embedded Physical AI process intelligence — cutting scrap rates from 15–20% to 5–8%.
MISSION
Think of what Tesla did for automotive manufacturing — a factory so instrumented it learns from every vehicle it builds. We're building that for extreme-environment aerospace.
"The bottleneck in aerospace isn't the physics. It's the manufacturing."
THE PROBLEM
Ceramic matrix composites and ultra-high-temperature ceramics are the only materials that survive hypersonic flight. But manufacturing them is plagued by variability that no amount of post-process inspection can fix.
Standard for CMC/UHTC manufacturing. Each scrapped part represents weeks of lead time and significant material cost.
When a part fails qualification, engineers lack the in-situ data to understand why. Every failure triggers weeks of root-cause analysis.
Each production run starts fresh. Institutional knowledge lives in people, not systems.
Defense programs can't absorb the long-tail risk of a single opaque extreme-materials supplier.
THE SOLUTION
We embed sensor networks and Physical AI models directly into the manufacturing process — not as an afterthought, but as the core of how every part is made. Every thermal cycle, every infiltration step, every deposition event feeds a proprietary data flywheel that compounds with each part produced.
The Apple of aerospace manufacturing — design analysis, Physical AI-powered process intelligence, and production integrated under one roof.
WHY NOW
Dan Goldin, former NASA Administrator, identified three urgent industrial challenges. Starborne is built to address all three.
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America needs modernized manufacturing infrastructure to "get our economies of scale back" using contemporary tools.
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America invented hypersonics, but we are not the leader anymore. Regaining dominance requires advanced manufacturing.
03
Single-source dependencies in critical materials are a national security liability. New entrants with credible manufacturing are urgently needed.
— Dan Goldin, Endless Frontiers Conference, Austin TX
FOUNDER
Founder & CEO
I started in manufacturing. A decade across every layer of the aerospace stack — from national labs to commercial space to high-performance computing — led me to the same question: why doesn't the simulation world talk to the manufacturing world? Starborne is the answer.
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We're in active customer discovery and welcome conversations with defense primes, program offices, commercial space operators, and investors exploring the thesis.