Orbital Operations

Inscrição YC de Orbital Operations

Winter 2025Active

Orbital Operations passou pela Y Combinator no batch Winter 2025 como uma empresa Industrials. Abaixo: o que a empresa faz, quem a fundou e sua inscrição para a YC, reconstruída pergunta por pergunta no formulário real da YC.

Batch YC
Winter 2025
Indústria
IndustrialsAviation and Space
Tamanho da equipe
2
Status
Active
Lançada
2025

Fundadores

  • Ben Schleuniger
    Ben SchleunigerFounder
  • Ross Doherty
    Ross DohertyCo-Founder & COO

O que Orbital Operations faz

Orbital Operations is developing a high thrust, reusable space vehicle for satellite defense. We protect critical satellites, like GPS and Military communication satellites, from adversarial threats, like China and Russia. Our vehicle will use the exact same propulsion systems that launch vehicles have used for decades by implementing a cryogenic management system. This will give us over 100x the thrust or current in-space propulsion. Ross and I have over 15 years of combined aerospace experience across NASA, Aerojet Rocketdyne, SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Relativity Space. We’ve worked side by side for more than 3.5 years developing propulsion systems, turbomachinery, and building our own respective engineering teams. We are currently working on the first demo of our unique cryo management system and intend to launch an operational vehicle by 2027.

Inscrição YC de Orbital Operations, reconstruída

Inscrição Y Combinator

Orbital Operations, lote Winter 2025. As verdadeiras perguntas do formulário, respondidas com dados públicos.

  1. Founders2
  2. Company7
  3. Progress7
  4. Idea4
  5. Equity3
  6. Curious2
  7. Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Orbital Operations

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

High Thrust Space Vehicles for Satellite Defense

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We are building a reusable space vehicle with high-thrust propulsion for defending satellites against threats like China and Russia. Our product leverages a cryogenic management system to use launch-grade engines in space, giving over 100 times the thrust of current in-space propulsion methods.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in Los Angeles, CA, and will base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Los Angeles gives us access to aerospace talent and facilities needed to develop our propulsion and cryo systems effectively. We both live here and have built teams locally.

21 respostas a mais na inscrição completa

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Perguntas Frequentes

Esta é a inscrição real da YC de Orbital Operations?

Não. A Y Combinator mantém as inscrições submetidas em privado. Esta é uma reconstrução: as perguntas reais do formulário da YC, respondidas a partir dos dados públicos de Orbital Operations (notas de lançamento, históricos de fundadores, descrição do produto). Mostra como uma empresa como Orbital Operations se apresentaria à YC, não o texto que eles submeteram.

Em qual batch da YC Orbital Operations esteve?

Orbital Operations fez parte do batch Winter 2025 da Y Combinator.

Quem fundou o Orbital Operations?

O Orbital Operations foi fundado por Ben Schleuniger, Ross Doherty.

O que o Orbital Operations faz?

High Thrust Space Vehicles for Satellite Defense

Como eu leio o application completo reconstruído?

Crie uma conta gratuita no Round Funded. A versão completa de 26 respostas do application do Orbital Operations, e de todos os outros lotes do YC, está no YC Insights.

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