Orca Aerospace (YC F26) — AI spacecraft operators that lives onboard the vehicle
At Orca, we are focused on creating the future of spacecraft operations by moving control onto the vehicle. By allowing LLMs to control the satellite using deterministic tooling, we are able to achieve the same holistic, high-quality decisions on "what" to do to carry out a mission while maintaining the safety of systems that decide "how" to execute it.
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What it does AI spacecraft operators that lives onboard the vehicle (source)
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At Orca, we are focused on creating the future of spacecraft operations by moving control onto the vehicle. By allowing LLMs to control the satellite using deterministic tooling, we are able to achieve the same holistic, high-quality decisions on "what" to do to carry out a mission while maintaining the safety of systems that decide "how" to execute it.
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Orca Aerospace builds the AI spacecraft operator that flies with the vehicle. It understands the mission, watches the systems, and acts when the ground can
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Jacob Ososke
Founder/CEO
Jacob spent over a decade at Lockheed Martin in guidance, navigation, and control, rising from intern to GNC Manager and founding the company's first AI-GNC team. His work focused on autonomous fault recovery and self-healing systems for aerospace platforms. Jacob has an MS in Robotics from Santa Clara University and an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.
Hakan Chunton
Founder/CTO
Founder at Orca Aerospace (YC F26); MIT 6-14 MEng '26 & 16/6-14 SB '25
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