Orca Aerospace
Orca Aerospace is a YC Fall 2026 (F26) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 5.
About Orca Aerospace
Summary
Orca Aerospace builds an AI spacecraft operator that runs onboard the vehicle, replacing the ground-based human operators who currently fly each satellite through scheduled communication passes. The system decides what to do next to carry out the mission, hands execution to a deterministic planner, and filters every command through safety guardrails before it reaches the spacecraft. Satellite operators running growing constellations get continuous autonomous control between ground passes, cutting the latency and staffing load that today's console-driven ops rooms cannot scale to match.
Go-to-market
Satellite operators and defense-adjacent spacecraft programs are the target customers, reached through direct outreach and a "request a briefing" flow on the website, with the company also registered for U.S. government and defense contracts.
From the Y Combinator listing
AI spacecraft operators that lives onboard the vehicle
At Orca, we are focused on creating the future of spacecraft operations by moving control onto the vehicle. By allowing AI models to control the satellite using deterministic tooling, we are able to achieve the same holistic, high-quality decisions on "what" to do to carry out a mission while maintaining the safety of systems that decide "how" to execute it.
Facts
- Industrials / Industrials -> Aviation and Space
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 5
- Active
- Early
Founders (1)
- Hakan Chunton
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