Want to learn more about the not-so-distance future of extraterrestrial propellant production? We've got you covered! Starpath 🤝 Payload podcast is out now on all platforms. Check it out below: Spotify: https://lnkd.in/e98MCjSB Apple: https://lnkd.in/erQUPnue Youtube: https://lnkd.in/e75br-md
Starpath
Space Research and Technology
Hawthorne, California 2,776 followers
Manufacturing Propellant in Space at Mega Scale
About us
Starpath designs and manufactures robotic propellant production factories for the Moon and Mars, reducing the cost of deep space transport, and enabling humans to be a multi planet species.
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https://starpath.space/
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- Industry
- Space Research and Technology
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Hawthorne, California
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2022
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13030 Cerise Ave
Hawthorne, California 90250, US
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From designing and testing novel hardware to collecting sensor data for our autonomous rover, no two days are alike here at Starpath Robotics. Watch below to see some of the projects we are working on in our journey to make life multi-planetary! https://lnkd.in/ef4ibt_j
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A word from our Co-Founder Saurav Shroff on our most recent fundraise, covered by TechCrunch here: https://lnkd.in/gxrQxBmy
A future where we can support millions of people living on the Moon or Mars is far more exciting than one where that possibility doesn’t exist. At today's cost of transporting crew + cargo to the surface of Mars, establishing a serious base in space would cost more than the combined GDP of the entire world. A multi-order magnitude cost reduction is essential to make an exciting multi-planet future possible. Today Starpath is announcing over $11M in total funding to bring that multi-planet future closer to reality. We’re building commercial scale propellant production factories for the surface of the Moon and Mars. Access to abundant propellant on the surface enables fully-reusable mission profiles, where no costly spacecraft hardware is expended per-flight. This both drives down cost and enables payloads to be returned to Earth - a critical capability for servicing a high volume of crewed flights to and from the Moon and Mars. Starpath is the core surface infrastructure for cities in space. In the long term, our technology will service thousands of regularly scheduled flights with propellant and enable humanity’s first ever self-sustaining civilization in space. Human civilization should strive to reach the galactic high-score of all civilizations that ever were, and we won’t do so as a boring one planet species. Join the team and come help us reach the high score! https://lnkd.in/g8kyTTEh Thanks to Aria Alamalhodaei at TechCrunch for covering our story: https://lnkd.in/g8SPDVpF Thanks to our incredible investors: 8VC, Fusion Fund, Balerion Space Ventures, Valhalla Ventures, Hummingbird Ventures, Day One Ventures, Contrary, Jason Portnoy, Justin Rose, Lu Zhang, Shane Wall, Ryan JB Taylor, Daniel W., Phil Scully, Rohan Pujara, Devan Malhotra, Haya Hanna, Barend Van den Brande, Masha Bucher, Matt Mickiewicz, Tara Harandi-Zadeh, Jason Chen, Daniel Maren
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''Teamwork makes the dream work'' A little over a week ago we took second place for Phase 2 of NASA's Break the Ice Lunar Challenge. We are extremely proud of our team's accomplishment and had a blast (no pun intended) competing against a host of stellar teams! Want to read all about it? Check out the full recap on NASA's website here: https://lnkd.in/dmvpRhpE
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Thank you Gerald (Jerry) Sanders! It was a great event to be a part of, and amazing to see the diversity of designs from all who competed. Special shoutout to the entire team here at Starpath! Our hard work paid off, and we are very grateful for the opportunity to be involved in Break The Ice. In just 6 short months, we have been able to design & build a new rover (a major step towards flight capable hardware), scale up in-house manufacturing, grow the team, move headquarters from SF to LA, and made significant development progress on our Power and Regolith Processing systems. But we are just getting started. There's a ton of work left to do before our first demo mission on the Lunar surface, and we are #hiring! If you're passionate about establishing permanent human operations on the #Moon and #Mars, check out our open positions or reach out! Looking for engineers and technicians of all levels. #starpath #NASA #newspace
In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) System Capability Leadership Team (SCLT) Lead
The Break the Ice Lunar Challenge concluded with Terra winning 1st place ($1M) and Starpath winning 2nd place ($500K). It was an amazing competition and all teams that participated should be proud of their hardware and performance. Many of us watching are already thinking of the lessons learned from both the successes and not so successful aspects of each team at the competition as well as those that participated in earlier phases.
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🚀 BIG NEWS!! 🚀 We are excited to announce we have officially moved into our new 11,000 square foot facility based in Hawthorne, CA and it's all systems go for us here at Starpath! Want to stay up to date with the mission? Check us out on our brand new instagram @ StarpathSpace: https://lnkd.in/gWWvsDqJ #space #engineering #eatrocksmakelox
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