SpaceRyde
SpaceRyde is a YC Winter 2019 (W19) company. Based in Toronto, ON, Canada. Team of 33.
About SpaceRyde
Summary
SpaceRyde builds a balloon-launched rocket system for delivering cargo to orbit without the atmospheric emissions or ozone-layer particulates produced by conventional ground-launched rockets. After completing a delivery, the rocket stays powered in orbit and joins a shared network for follow-on in-space tasks: refuelling, deep-space missions, debris removal, and de-orbiting. The system targets satellite operators and in-space economy players who need on-demand, sustainable cargo transport beyond Earth's atmosphere.
Go-to-market
SpaceRyde sells cargo launch services to satellite operators and in-space economy customers, with a reusable rocket network designed to handle repeat missions once the initial vehicle is on orbit.
From the Y Combinator listing
The Rocket Network: Sustainable & On-Demand Delivery Anywhere in Space
SpaceRyde is building the future of space cargo transportation to facilitate and encourage necessary in-space developments, innovations and economy. SpaceRyde is the only sustainable mode of space transportation. Its innovative system utilizes a stratospheric balloon to bypass the atmosphere without emissions nor depositing black particles into the ozone layer and is the world’s first and only multi-functional rocket. After completing its initial mission, the vehicle will remain powered in orbit and joins its rocket network until assigned its next in-space mission, including tasks such as; refuelling, deep space missions, space junk removal and de-orbiting. SpaceRyde’s story began in 2018 with husband-wife founders Saharnaz Safari and Sohrab Haghighat and the dream of eliminating the barriers to innovation in space. The company is now a rapidly growing team of over 30 employees with a 25,000-square-foot rocket factory and state-of-the-art engine groundworks facility.
Facts
- Industrials / Industrials -> Aviation and Space
- Toronto, ON, Canada
- 33
- Inactive
- Early
Founders (1)
- Sohrab Haghighat
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