SEES
L1 / Twin + sensingSpatial intelligence
A live digital twin with millimetre-level truth of every item, tool and container: where it is, how sure we are, and what has gone missing or been swapped. Fed by RFID, UWB, NFC, cameras and lidar.
The workforce
for space.
Labour infrastructure for the orbital economy. Autonomous robots that find, move and verify every item on a crewed station, so the crew can spend their hours on science.
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Orbit / LEO408 km · 51.6°
01 / The problem
The most expensive workforce ever assembled spends its day finding things.
Every crewed station runs on a handful of astronauts. They are scientists, pilots and engineers, and they still unpack cargo, hunt for tools and count supplies by hand.
Crew time
$130K/HR
Per hour, for the only workforce in orbit.
Workload
500
Tasks a day on a crewed station.
Transition
2030
The ISS retires. Commercial stations multiply.
Today
By hand
Every task is still done manually, by a handful of astronauts.
02 / The system
One stack that sees, acts and thinks.
A live record of every item on the station, the sensors that keep it true, and a robot that goes and checks. Three parts that ship together, built in-house.
ACTS
L2 / Robotic bodiesRobotic bodies
Free-flyers that move through the module, find the container, confirm what is inside and update the twin. Then dexterous arms, then swarms. Task-specific, with our own grippers and avionics.
THINKS
L3 / AutonomyAutonomy
Trained in simulation and directed by the crew's voice. Runs fully offline at very low latency, with no ground link or crew time needed to complete a job.
SX / Operating principle
Astronauts do the science. Spectre does the work.
03 / Product line
One workforce, deployed job by job.
We ship one product until it flies. Each job after that reuses the twin, the autonomy software and the core robot. Only the tooling and mission software are new.
SX-01Building now
Logistics
Find, verify, fetch and stow every item on a station. Inventory and cargo, tracked and checked without crew time.
SX-02Next
Maintenance
Repair, assembly and science operations. Stowage, cargo transfer, inspection and tending experiments, on the same stack.
SX-03Scale
Fleet
Swarms working across stations and uncrewed orbital infrastructure, running without daily supervision.
Built so far
- TwinDigital twin with truth maintenance.
- Free-flyerRobot working inside a simulated ISS interior.
- Ground rigFusing RFID, UWB, NFC and vision to retrieve objects.
Versus the field
- TeleoperatedNeeds an operator on every task, built from off-the-shelf parts.
- HumanoidsGeneral purpose, large, with no spatial model of the station.
- SpectreFull stack on one platform, with learned autonomy.
04 / Roadmap
From simulation to orbit.
We build the robot three times, each one closer to flight. A rough prototype that runs beats a finished design.
2026 / Now
Proven in sim
Free-flyer in an ISS-interior simulation. Ground rig retrieving objects.
Early 2027
v0 Ground prototype
Robot, sensing layer and twin doing full autonomous inventory runs on a testbed in Melbourne.
Mid 2027
v1 Flight-representative
The robot at the size, mass, power and materials a station operator accepts. Vibration, thermal and power tested.
TRL 6
Late 2027
Flight unit
Flight-grade parts, built to the operator's safety rules and in acceptance testing.
TRL 6 → 7
2028
In orbit
First flight. A qualified unit working on a crewed station.
TRL 7
V1
Station logistics
Inventory and cargo on crewed stations: find, move, verify, track.
Now
V2
Station operations
The rest of the crew's routine work: stowage, cargo transfer, inspection, tending experiments.
2028
V3
Orbital infrastructure
Fleets maintaining uncrewed platforms such as orbital data centres: inspection, part swaps, repairs.
2029
V4
Beyond orbit
Lunar surface logistics, construction, and hazard response.
2030+On Earth: the same stack for warehouse and pharmaceutical logistics.
05 / Contact
Orbit needs a workforce. The window is now.
Station operators, payload partners, investors and engineers
Melbourne, Australia