06 | Company
The future of space belongs to those who believe in space compute.
Aethero Space Incorporated was founded in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 2021 to change the status quo in spacecraft computing. The company is now headquartered in San Francisco and keeps its engineering roots in Ann Arbor; we design and manufacture in the United States.
Mission
Make space data instant.
Compute has transformed every industry it has touched, except the one that generates data furthest from where it is needed. Aethero exists to close that gap: to put data-center-class processing on every spacecraft, from the smallest CubeSat to space stations, and to make it as easy to use as a cloud region.
We get there by refusing the false choice between performance and resilience. Commercial silicon from NVIDIA, Intel and AMD, hardened by system design and verified test-as-you-fly, delivers orders of magnitude more compute per watt and per dollar than legacy rad-hard processors, and we have the flight heritage to prove it.
Timeline
From first board to orbital data center.
- 2021Aethero founded in Ann Arbor, MichiganMission: high-performance, space-rated computers built from modern commercial silicon.
- Mar 2024$2.5M pre-seed roundCovered by TechCrunch, Payload, Yahoo and ITC.TechCrunchPayloadYahooITC
- Jul 2024Cosmic Shielding Corporation partnershipConformal Plasteel radiation shielding for the NxN-ECM ahead of the Deimos launch.Press releaseSpaceNewsTechCrunchYahooSpace Daily
- Jul 2024Antmicro partnershipOpen-source hardware and software collaboration on the space edge AI stack.Press releaseeeNews Europe
- Aug 2024Deimos launches on Transporter-11First 100 TOPS space edge computer; first COTS Jetson Orin in orbit.Press releaseSpaceNewsDeimos platform
- Jun 2025$9.5M seed roundCovered by Payload and Yahoo Finance.PayloadYahoo Finance
- Aug 2025Ansys, a Synopsys company, partnershipSimulation-driven design across mechanical, radiation, thermal and EMI domains.Press release
- Mar 2026Phobos launches on Transporter-16157 TOPS, 24/7, hosting multiple customer containers.Press releasePhobos platform
- Apr 2026EnduroSat partnership and Titan announced16,000 TFLOPS orbital data center on an ESPA-class bus; Scanway imaging payload.Press releaseSpaceNews
- Aug 2026Star Catcher power purchase agreementBeamed power for future Titan-class and constellation spacecraft.Press releaseSpaceNews
- Q1 2027Titan launches on Transporter-19Aethero's most advanced deployment, on a SpaceX dedicated rideshare.Titan platform
How we work
Vertically integrated, manufacturer agnostic.
We design the boards, the enclosures, the operating systems and the cloud. We simulate before we build, and we test as we fly, and results have matched. And we build to standards (CubeSat/PC-104, VPX/VNX) so Aethero compute works on any platform, with any bus manufacturer.
Headquarters
San Francisco, California.
Design, bring-up and flight integration happen under one roof in SoMa: an in-house clean room for flight-unit assembly, hardware-in-the-loop benches for every module, and the office where the software and Altus teams sit a glass wall away from the hardware they ship.
- SFHeadquarters & salesSan Francisco, California: clean room, integration lab, offices.
- MIEngineering, Ann ArborWhere Aethero was founded. Board design, test and hardware-in-the-loop development.
In the field
Where the work happens.
Beamlines, vacuum chambers, integration halls and launch sites: a small team that ships hardware to orbit on a cadence.
Partners
Contact
Talk to Aethero.
Headquarters and sales in San Francisco; engineering in Ann Arbor. We respond to every inquiry within two business days.