SpaceBilt, founded in 2023, is a spacecraft development company focused on on-orbit assembly, reprovisioning, and repurposing of spacecraft, aiming to extend spacecraft operations and reduce lifecycle costs. As an integration partner with the ISS National Lab, Spacebilt has active hardware (SMART-1 platform) on the International Space Station and is working toward a Q4 2026 launch for the first mOLV STARcraft. The company's key services include payload integration, engineering support, and software development for payload command and control. SpaceBilt has partnered with organizations like Novium, Phison and the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU). Associated keywords: on-orbit assembly, spacecraft lifecycle, in-space servicing, commercial space logistics.
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Axiom Space has a partnership with Spacebilt targeting an orbital data center node on the International Space Station by 2027.
Axiom Space and Spacebilt announced a joint plan to introduce an optical interconnect orbital data center (ODC) on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2027.
SpaceBilt partnered with Phison to fly the Large in Space Server (LiSS) to the International Space Station in 2025.
In 2024, a similar Microchip PolarFire RISC-V Linux avionics package and data server will fly to the Moon with a commercial customer along with a SpaceBilt-sponsored ARMAS radiation sensor to collect qualitative data on Phison M.2 SSD performance in the cislunar and lunar surface environment.
SpaceBilt and partner Novium will provide demonstrations of a mockup space station at the Space Symposium from 2024-04-08 to 2024-04-11 in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
In 2022, Santa Clara-based SpaceBilt flew a prototype Microchip PolarFire RISC-V Linux operating system-based avionics package and data server to the ISS to support flight qualification of robotic connectors, sponsored by CASIS and funded by the Defense Innovation Unit.
Spacebilt and Phison agreed on 2024-04-08 to qualify a powerful data server on the International Space Station.
The 100-terabyte LiSS server is a risk-reduction prototype for Spacebilt’s planned 1.2-petabyte server being developed under a multi-orbit logistics vehicle Other Transaction Authority agreement with commercial customers and the Defense Innovation Unit.
Spacebilt is working toward a 2026-10-01 launch for the first m-OLV STARcraft.
The three DIU-funded projects were awarded to Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman, and Spacebilt.