THE NEXT CONSTRUCTION BOOM ISN'T ON EARTH
For 60 years, space stations and satellites were designed around what could fold into a rocket fairing. Orbital Matter designs and constructs structures at unprecedented scale in space, enabling forms, sizes, and capabilities impossible with Earth-built systems.
BUILD WHAT YOU NEED IN ORBIT
Especially when traditional hinges, latches, motors and tensioning systems drive up complexity, risk and cost. Orbital Matter constructs continuous rigid structures in orbit as an alternative to mechanical deployables.
Power hungry satellite constellations, space data centers and multi-module space stations all require solar arrays, radiators and antennas too large to fold.
Orbital Matter builds them all, up there not down here.
The simple construction system made for space
Concrete is the most widely used construction material because it starts as liquid and cures on-site. PADS uses SPACECRETE that flows and stores as fluid but hardens in seconds into a rigid, joint-free space-grade structure.
The 3D printing method invented by Orbital Matter based on UV curing increases reliability and avoids thermal complexity resulting in lower power demand than a light bulb and smaller size than a brick.
No hinges, latches, motors and tensioning systems that drive up complexity, risk and cost. The larger a structure, the cheaper it gets. This is how large space infrastructure becomes economically viable.
INTRODUCING PRINTER ASSISTED DEPLOYMENT SYSTEM
Large space systems require structural elements that cannot be launched or folded.
The PADS construction system builds structural booms at scales from 10m right up to 100m+ without changing the manufacturing process, power requirements, or operational complexity.
This allows antennas, radiators and solar arrays to be deployed at unprecedented sizes.
A hollow boom constructed on-orbit by the PADS printer, producing continuous rigid structures from 10m to 100m+ in length. No joints, no hinges — a single monolithic element.
Solar arrays, radiators, antennas — any large-area element that requires a structural backbone too large to fold and launch conventionally.
Our systems are designed to evolve in orbit. By launching early and often, we validate designs under real space conditions, rapidly incorporate feedback, and scale capability mission by mission, without the long development cycles of conventional space hardware.
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