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Startup · United States

TransAstra

HQ United States11-50 employees

TransAstra develops orbital logistics and space-resource technology, including space-domain-awareness telescopes, inflatable capture bags and propulsion systems. Its work addresses orbital debris capture, spacecraft movement and future asteroid-resource processing.

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Systems5

Capture Bag

Capture Bag — Orbital debris capture and space-resource technology

Prototype

Omnivore

Omnivore — Orbital debris capture and space-resource technology

Maturity not rated

SolarForge

Solar-powered processing of space resources

Development

Sutter TKO

Sutter TKO — Orbital debris capture and space-resource technology

Fielded

Worker Bee

Worker Bee — Orbital debris capture and space-resource technology

Maturity not rated

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  • Joel Sercel

    Founder

  • Joel Sercel

    Founder and CEO

Sources3

Profile1

  1. 1

    Crunchbase · Supports Organization · description, Organization · employee range, Organization · website

    “about: TransAstra develops a technology to find, prospect, harvest and use space resources.”

Systems1

  1. 2

    Supports Organization, System

    “Watching the Sky With A Global Telescope Network. Finding Objects Throughout Cislunar Space.”

People1

  1. 3

    Supports Role

    “ky, challenging thing to do,” said Joel Sercel, an aerospace engineer who taught at Caltech, and founder of TransAstra. “”

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