Inversion Space, founded in 2021, is a space technology company focused on developing autonomous re-entry vehicles for delivering cargo from space to Earth. They are building the "Arc" capsule for rapid, on-demand delivery to any location, including remote areas, and the "Ray" capsule for technology maturation. Inversion aims to revolutionize logistics by providing a high-cadence, low-cost solution for commercial, civil, and defense industries, and is backed by investors including Spark Capital, Lockheed Martin Ventures, and Y Combinator. Keywords associated with the company are: re-entry vehicles, space-based delivery, and space logistics.
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On 2024-11-20, Inversion Space raised a $44,000,000 Series A round led by Spark Capital and Adjacent with participation from Lockheed Martin Ventures, Kindred Ventures, and Y Combinator.
Inversion Space will grow its headcount from 25 employees to about 70 and move into a new facility using the newly raised funds.
In September, Inversion Space secured a Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI) agreement with the Space Force’s SpaceWERX valued at $71,000,000 to support work on reentry vehicles tailored for military customers.
Inversion Space will use the Series A and other funds to further develop Arc, a reentry vehicle designed to provide precision delivery on-demand from space to Earth.
Inversion Space is currently working on the design of Arc with a first flight planned for 2026.
Yoël Zérah developed a new PROSAIL model inversion method during his thesis at CESBIO.
The new PROSAIL inversion method involves swapping the regression model and the physical model.
Inversion Space, based in California, has an agreement valued at $71,000,000 to support the development of autonomous reentry vehicles and demonstration missions tailored to military customers.
The Ray pathfinder mission is funded by Inversion Space’s $10,000,000 seed round.
Inversion Space is developing reusable reentry capsules to store cargo in orbit and deliver it to any point on Earth within an hour.
Ray will deploy a parachute developed by Inversion to slow to a 3.81 m/s touchdown velocity.
Inversion announced plans on 2024-04-17 to launch its first reentry vehicle, called Ray, on SpaceX’s Transporter-12 mission currently planned for October.
Ray will perform a de-orbit burn using Inversion’s 8 lbf thrust bipropellant rocket engine named CE-1.
Inversion was founded in 2021 to build re-entry vehicles to deliver cargo anywhere on Earth in under one hour.
Inversion Space develops reentry capsules intended to deliver cargo from a rocket to the ground, and Justin Fiaschetti is the company’s co-founder and CEO.
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Inversion operates a 5,000-square-foot factory in Los Angeles where the company built a one-foot-diameter capsule as a tech demonstrator.
Inversion designed a reusable capsule intended to conduct round trips to space to deliver cargo to space stations and return cargo to Earth.
On 2021-11-16, Inversion raised $10,000,000 in seed funding to develop a reentry capsule to bring cargo from space back to Earth.