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🚀 Proteus Space Secures Major Investment and Partnership with SAIC We're thrilled to announce a major investment from SAIC, a technology integrator focused on serving the mission critical operations of government agencies!   In addition to the investment, Proteus and SAIC have entered a multiyear strategic partnership to enhance and scale the deployment of Proteus’ groundbreaking MERCURY™ platform. MERCURY™ is an AI-powered, Industry 4.0 digital/physical twin system that autonomously designs custom satellite buses tailored to specific payloads, thousands of times faster than humans.   MERCURY™ leverages advanced technology to optimize satellite design, significantly reducing the time and cost associated with traditional methods. By automating the design process, MERCURY™ also ensures precision and accuracy, minimizing errors and rework. This results in a more efficient production cycle and faster deployment of satellites, ultimately providing customers with a competitive edge in the rapidly evolving space industry. MERCURY™ rapidly iterates and adapts to changing requirements and developmental payload SWaPs, creating unprecedented flexibility and responsiveness, making it an invaluable tool for both government and commercial customer seeking to get payloads to space faster.   “We’re excited to collaborate with SAIC, a leader in digital engineering and technology integration,” said David Kervin, CEO and co-founder of Proteus Space. “This partnership will accelerate our ability to deliver MERCURY™ to a broader range of government customers, offering a transformative solution for satellite design and production.”   The collaboration aims to develop high-fidelity, autonomous digital modeling capabilities for space systems, enabling rapid design, assembly, and deployment of custom satellite buses.   “Our investment in Proteus Space is driven by their visionary technology, which enhances SAIC’s impactful digital engineering services,” said Lauren Knausenberger, Chief Innovation Officer at SAIC. “We have entered into this innovative partnership to expedite the development of next-generation space solutions for our government clients and the commercial sector.”   “SAIC is committed to fostering advancements in the space domain and we believe the customized capability of Proteus’ MERCURY™ platform to reduce the time from satellite design to launch will serve the unique needs of our customers,” said David Ray, Executive Vice President of SAIC’s Space and Intelligence Business Group. Learn more about how MERCURY™ is shaping the future of rapid automated satellite design: build@proteus-space.com Proteus Space SAIC #AerospaceInnovation #AI #SatelliteTechnology #SpaceTech #SpaceInnovation #AISatelliteDesign #DigitalEngineering #Autonomy #Automation #SatelliteInnovation #SpaceTech #UltraRapidDevelopment #industry40 #AutomatedDesign #SpaceEngineering #FutureOfSpace #speed #AIEngineering #satellite #thefutureisfaster

🚀 We're excited to work with GomSpace on the first of many groundbreaking ESPA class missions. https://lnkd.in/geRT4sk9 Proteus Space GomSpace #AerospaceInnovation #AI #SatelliteTechnology #SpaceTech #SpaceInnovation #AISatelliteDesign #DigitalEngineering #Autonomy #Automation #SatelliteInnovation #SpaceTech #UltraRapidDevelopment #industry40 #AutomatedDesign #SpaceEngineering #FutureOfSpace #speed #AIEngineering #satellite #thefutureisfaster #espa

🚀 Thrilled to announce our strategic partnership and investment in Proteus! Together, we're revolutionizing satellite design through #AI-powered automation—accelerating next-gen space solutions for government and commercial clients. Learn more about this #PartnershipPower in SpaceNews https://bit.ly/4eT2vOW

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🚀 We're excited to welcome John Paul B. to Proteus Space today from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where JP played a pivotal role in advancing space technology! 🏎 Fun fact: JP spent a year on sabbatical working with the Scuderia Ferrari Formula 1 team in Italy, blending engineering excellence from #space and #motorsport! 🚀+🏎 = 💡 JP will be leading our Satellite Advanced Manufacturing efforts! https://lnkd.in/g6NXWJNA #WelcomeJP #TeamProteus #SpaceInnovation #thefutureisfaster #SatelliteInnovation #SpaceTech #Aerospace #SatelliteTechnology #SpaceExploration #Innovation #TechInnovation #FutureOfSpace #SpaceIndustry #SatelliteEngineering #digitalengineering #autonomoussystems

🚀 Exciting News! We're thrilled to welcome Lacey Littleton to the Proteus Space family, fresh off her successful launch with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Europa Clipper team! Lacey joins us as our new Flight Hardware Project Manager. Welcome aboard, Lacey! 🌟 #TeamProteus #SpaceInnovation #thefutureisfaster #europaclipper NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory #SatelliteInnovation #SpaceTech #Aerospace #SatelliteTechnology #SpaceExploration #Innovation #TechInnovation #FutureOfSpace #SpaceIndustry #SatelliteEngineering https://lnkd.in/eZBjTGS

Going to LA Tech Week? Join our CEO and Cofounder David Kervin and other founders discussing how they raised their seed, A and B rounds. Thursday, October 17, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT Los Angeles Athletic Club, Los Angeles, California https://lu.ma/lfs0ymfr #latechweek #space #vc #startups #space #satellites #founders

“Design challenges” is a very polite way of saying the bus and payload providers are in continual disagreement about who is the leader. A lot of these kinds of conversations sound like this: “The bus is the problem!” “No, the payload is the problem!” We’ve all seen this movie before. “Design challenges” are also the main driver of cost growth and schedule slips. It’s a 60+ year old problem. Wouldn’t it be nice if the bus and payload could get along? Well, they can’t. That’s why the payload needs to be the leader - unconstrained throughout development to reach it’s zenith of potential as fast as possible - and the bus must instantly respond to payload evolution. Leader & follower. The bus must follow. #ThisIsTheWay We also need to be designing and building inside the launch cadence and inside the regulatory timelines and inside the supply chain lead timelines. This is the forcing function for the invisible hand of the market to mature and truly unlock the value and potential of a new space economy. This speed might also be needed to preserve and improve our way of life. That’s why we’re using AI assisted, autonomous digital engineering to digitally design, build and test payload tailored, custom satellite buses using multi-anchored, full provenance, DODi 5000.97 compliant digital models & twins. Our Industry 4.0 digital design and production system, MERCURY, doesn’t just eliminate “design challenges” - it allows humans to quickly explore every design option available in the mission closing trade-space. FAST Thousands and thousands of times faster than mere mortals can produce even one mission closing design. Mortals are human, MERCURY is a machine. MERCURY can produce thousands of mission closing LEO ESPA Conceptual and SRR payload tailored bus designs - using COTS, TRL9 subsystems - in the time it took you to read this. If you’re a slow reader it did it way, way faster. Don’t believe us? Do you have a LEO ESPA payload & mission? Let’s talk, and if we can close your mission, understand your timeline, payload, mission and launch criteria, we’ll give you a FREE, physics anchored Preliminary Design in 10 days, based on your priorities: lead time, subsystem TRL maturity, mass, mean power, cost - whatever. Oh, we’ll also give you the unlocked digital models. Locked models are so cliche. Jump into the time machine and fast forward your payload capability and flight time by hitting us up at www.proteus-space.com   Let’s build! MERCURY will make you a believer that #TheFutureIsFaster P.S. Don’t worry MEO, GEO & Cis-lunar - we’re coming for you too. Soon. https://lnkd.in/gVhy5_Ys #satellites #leo #espa #design #digitalengineering #digitaltwin

SSC’s first ever Pervasive Technology Expo Day is in the books. Big thanks to SpaceWERX and DTI for helping put this together. Thanks to all the presenters, Primes, and investors! Primes: L3Harris Technologies BAE Systems Northrup Grumman Advanced Systems Maxar Technologies Moog Inc. RTX Investors: Techstars Starburst Ventures Balerion Space Ventures Generational Partners Small Businesses (to include presenters) : TURION SPACE Phase Four VXB Aerospace Areté Viridian Space Corporation Enduralock South8 Morpheus Space Thermasat GATE Space Proteus Space Magma Space Atomic-6 City Labs American Lithium Energy (ALE) The goal was to foster collaboration with small business and Primes to incorporate cross cutting technologies. Twelve small businesses and entrepreneurs presented their pervasive capabilities (Propulsion systems, Low SWAP-C electronics and structures, mission autonomy, and power) to nearly 70 diverse attendees composed of Defense Prime contractors, Government Program Office representatives, venture capitalists, and other potential customers. This included company displays and private breakout rooms to encourage technology transition.

⚡ Proteus Space CEO and Cofounder David Kervin was excited to present MERCURY, our game-changing AI-assisted satellite design and production system, at the SpaceWERX Space Systems Command Futures Pervasive Technology Expo 2024 yesterday! David had attendees nodding their heads when he said: "Where a rapidly evolving payload is concerned - the only thing 'standard' about a 'standard bus' is there will be lots pain, cost and time to modify that bus for a payload it was never specifically designed to fly." That pain is ubiquitous - felt globally today by government and commercial customers alike who want and need to get their payloads to space - faster - cheaper - easier. David went on to explain how Proteus Space is revolutionizing satellite design and AI&T with their AI-assisted, physics anchored, Digital Design & Rapid Satellite Prototyping system MERCURY. MERCURY digitally engineers, high fidelity models and digitally twins, payload tailored satellites (bus and payload integrated designs), generating thousands of mission closing designs at the same time, thousands of times faster than humans, with radical improvements in testing, manufacturability, speed and quality, eliminating mistakes and rework in AI&T. David finished his presentation by describing a MERCURY enabled future, where similar to how AI sequenced the human genome, MERCURY could model every satellite in space, planned to be in space or thought about sending to space. A world where human engineers use their massive talents to invest in innovation in payloads and subsystems, not slowly moving around trade-spaces hoping bus designs close. With multiple software patents pending, MERCURY is the world's first Autonomous Physics Anchored Digital Engineering System and Proteus is designing, building and is manifested to fly the worlds first AI designed ESPA class satellite in Oct of 2025. MERCURY and Proteus are ushering in a completely new era of innovation, empowering payload owners to change their SWaPs and minds without regret, instantly, at any stage of the design lifecycle. A special thanks to SpaceWERX & Space Systems Command for continuing to innovate and push for new capabilities that matter - with a sense of urgency! #FightTonight #AccelerateChangeOrLose #TheFutureIsFaster #industry40 #DigitalEngineering #DigitalTwin #Satellites #SpaceTech #AerospaceInnovation #DigitalModeling #SpaceIndustry #SatelliteDesign #VirtualPrototyping #SimulationTechnology #NewSpaceEra #SatelliteSimulation #DigitalTransformation #SpaceInnovation #SmartSatellites #DigitalSatellites #FutureOfSpace #SatelliteEngineering https://lnkd.in/gm38jhES