We Wonder,
We Build.
We study the environments at the frontiers of flight and space, and build the hardware that works there.
How We Build
Hardware built for where physics gets hard.
Getting to orbit used to be the hard part. Now that it is routine, the difficulty has moved to the hardware, and to whether it can be built well enough to survive where it is sent.
The environmentBuilt to work the first time, and keep working
On the lunar surface a structure sees three hundred degrees of swing between day and night, every fourteen days, for years. In vacuum there is no convection to carry heat away. In deep space the nearest replacement part is months from arriving, if it is coming at all.
Those conditions rule out most of what modern manufacturing takes for granted. There is no maintenance window, no second attempt, and no margin to be found later by inspecting a part more carefully.
The designNew missions, new designs
Next-generation space systems ask more of their hardware than any previous generation has. A radiator has to shed heat into a vacuum, where there is no air to carry it away. A structure has to hold its tolerances through years of expanding and contracting as the temperature swings. A power system has to run for a decade with nobody there to service it. Each of those is a design problem long before it becomes a manufacturing problem.
Meeting demands like those calls for a genuine step forward rather than a stronger version of what already exists, and pushing that boundary is what Starborne is built to do. We take on the design ourselves because a system that reaches this far only works when the material, the shape and the way it is made are developed as one idea.
The processNew designs, new ways of making them
The materials that survive these environments are the hardest to form, and their final properties are set while they are being made. Starborne studies that process as closely as the environments the hardware will face, so what comes out of it is what the design intended.
Where we are working
Understand the environment, then build for it
Measure the environment
We learn how heat, flow and the upper atmosphere actually behave in the places where today’s models still estimate them.
Design for the environment
We design structures and systems against those measurements, so every margin rests on conditions that have been observed.
Build and test in the environment
We build the hardware and prove it under the conditions it will face, from high-speed flight to the lunar surface and beyond.
Get in touch
Start a conversation
We are actively talking with defense and civil space program offices, prime contractors, university research groups, and investors working on long-horizon hardware.