Tycho Orbital Works

We take over old satellites.

Then we capture, store, and repurpose them into the raw material for orbital shipyards.

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Custody chain from aging satellite to shipyard
the 5-second explainer

The first wedge is service. The long-term company is the shipyard.

Tycho starts as end-of-life mission operations. When satellite operators are done with a spacecraft, Tycho takes over monitoring, operations, transition planning, disposal, or capture.

Orbital shipyard concept illustration
One satellite’s end-of-life is another builder’s beginning.

We do not burn a data center every time it needs upgrading. We should not burn spacecraft either.

what we do

End-of-life ops, custody, capture, and shipyards.

Operate

We monitor aging satellites after the original team is ready to move on.

Transition

We decide the path: dispose, passivate, sell, capture, store, or reuse.

Capture

We build the capture and storage pathway that turns retired spacecraft into inventory.

Build

We repurpose spacecraft and parts into new orbital infrastructure.

founders

We know satellites, hardware, and selling without permission.

Stephen Shaffer

Satellite mission development, NanoAvionics, MAMBO, mission pricing, operations, customer development.

Alex

Mechanical design, CAD, fabrication, mechanisms, North Street Labs, BattleBots.

Have a spacecraft approaching end-of-life?

Talk to us before you deorbit it.

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