Stelaris builds swarms of small autonomous robots that grab, move, and place any object in orbit — on demand. The space economy is scaling fast, but nothing up there can be moved. We’re the logistics layer that changes that.
A swarm converges on an object it has never seen, grabs it, and repositions it with coordinated ion thrust — then lets go and moves to the next job. No propulsion on the payload.
The cost of reaching orbit has fallen roughly 36× — and is still falling toward ~$100/kg. The cost of moving, servicing, or recovering what’s already up there hasn’t budged, because every job today needs its own bespoke spacecraft. That gap is the opening: a shared, reusable swarm that makes every in-space action cheap.
$54,500 → ~$1,500 per kg (Shuttle → Falcon 9), heading toward ~$100/kg with Starship. Below a cost threshold, servicing and reuse beat relaunch.
10,000+ active satellites, 40,000 tracked objects, and 1.2M+ debris fragments now crowd orbit — with constellations filed to 42,000+.
The FCC’s 5-year deorbit rule went live in 2024; ESA’s zero-debris target is 2030. Cleanup and disposal are now mandated, not optional.
23,000+ satellites are serviceable. Only ~3,800 will be serviced through 2032. The other ~19,000 are priced out — because servicing today means one custom vehicle per target. A reusable swarm drives cost-per-action down the same curve reusability drove launch, converting latent demand into market. We don’t just capture the market — we expand it. And customers already pay: ESA’s €86M ClearSpace-1, Astroscale’s ~$1B IPO, Starfish’s $160M+ in booked contracts.
In-space operations by the mid-2030s: servicing, relocation, debris removal, and assembly.
Missions where multi-robot coordination is the differentiator — large, uncooperative, or many-at-once targets.
Cumulative contracted revenue in our first five operational years, benchmarked to today’s servicing contracts.
Demonstrate autonomous multi-robot coordination and a first servicing / relocation mission — the capability no incumbent has.
Fleet servicing and debris-sweep constellations, monetizing recurring relocation and removal against the deorbit mandates.
As launch nears ~$100/kg, in-space assembly of large structures — the swarm as the backbone that lowers the cost of every action in orbit.
Sources: WEF & McKinsey, Space: The $1.8T Opportunity (2024) · NSR / Analysys Mason, In-Orbit Services · ESA Space Environment Report 2025 · FCC 5-year deorbit rule · Novaspace. Market ranges are analyst-derived and directional.
Everything we launch flies once and stays put. Each object carries its own propulsion and becomes junk when the fuel runs dry — and nothing already in orbit can be moved, serviced, or recovered.
A shared swarm of small robots converges on any object, grabs it together, and repositions it — then releases and moves to the next job. The intelligence lives in the swarm, not the cargo.
Launch is nearly solved; thrust is a commodity. The hard problem is coordination — many units jointly moving a shared mass from only local information. Whoever solves it owns the layer.
Three layers bring the service online. We’re building the hardest and most defensible one first.
The coordination brain — proven now in high-fidelity simulation, every claim backed by an ablation.
The SV-1 servicer concept — gecko capture arms, ion thrusters, built to dock and thrust in swarms.
One console tasking thousands of robots against thousands of objects. A live concept preview.
Joshua Bloom holds a PhD in Robotic Engineering (WPI) with a dissertation on Global State Prediction — the exact coordination problem Stelaris runs on. Today he leads the Autonomy Behaviors & Agents team at Applied Intuition, one of the fastest-growing companies in autonomous systems, after engineering multi-agent RL for 300+ agents at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.