Too slow to deploy.
Months — sometimes years — of integration. Missions wait on the calendar for a ride that fits, and opportunity windows close before hardware reaches orbit.
— SAMARA AEROSPACE · HUMMINGBIRD PLATFORM
Satellites, evolved.
Scalable, rapidly deployable satellites. Precision, agility and power — finally on one platform.
— 01 / THE PROBLEM
The satellite industry is struggling.
Legacy buses are slow to deploy, fight themselves for control, and refuse to scale. The hardware that should serve the mission keeps getting in the way of it.
Wheels that shake.
Reaction wheels add mass, vibrate and wear out. Jitter blurs imagery and chokes optical comms — the bus fights itself for every pointing solution.
Power vs. agility.
Add power and you lose maneuverability. The industry treats this tradeoff as a law of physics — and designs every mission around the compromise.
— 02 / THE SOLUTION
Three shifts.
One platform.
We rebuilt the spacecraft bus from the structure out — so deployment, control and scale stop competing and start compounding.
— RAPID DEPLOYMENT
Built to fly, fast.
A modular, standardized bus collapses integration from years to months. Pick a size, mount the payload, and reach orbit on the schedule the mission actually needs.
— NEXT-GEN CONTROL · MSAC
Multifunctional Structures for Attitude Control.
Actuators embedded in the hinges of the deployable panels give full 3-axis attitude control plus active jitter cancellation. No wheels that shake. No bearings to wear out. Virtually no added mass — with pointing precision approaching JWST levels.
— FLIP THE TRADE
More panels = more control.
Because attitude control lives in the panels, scaling for power scales agility too. We broke the power-vs-agility tradeoff — the more you add, the more capable the spacecraft becomes.
— 03 / THE PLATFORM
Meet Hummingbird.
One bus. Four sizes. Endless missions. One platform — scaled precisely to the mission in front of it.
One Platform. Endless Missions.
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2 panels → 8 panels. The same bus, scaled to the mission.
Hummingbird
Payload mass
544 kg
Delta-V (ΔV)
400 m/s
LEO lifetime
10 yrs
Max slew rate
3.5 °/s
Pointing stability ≈ JWST class
0.08 arcsec
Peak power
1200 W
— 04 / THE VISION
One platform.
Endless missions.
Better Imagery
Kill jitter and flutter for sharp, repeatable Earth observation.
Faster Internet
Rock-steady optical and laser comms at constellation scale.
Space Superiority
Rapid, responsive maneuvers for defense and security missions.
Sustainability
Fewer moving parts, longer life on orbit, less debris left behind.
Precision. Agility. Power. All in one platform.
— 05 / BACKED BY
Backed by the best in space.
Techstars '24 · LA
Mission partner
SpaceWERX
US Space Force
Balerion
Space Ventures · Seed lead