OrchestratingOrbit.
Reconfigurable infrastructure for the space economy.
We build the infrastructure layer orbit is missing.
Adagio is a reusable, uncrewed platform that hosts payloads from any vendor. We provide power, thermal, secure comms, pointing, robotics and operations. Customers rent capacity or own the platform.
Modular by design.
12 standard slots. Any compliant module, from any vendor, plugs into the same power, data and thermal interface.
Robotic, on orbit. The platform’s arm swaps, upgrades or replaces modules without a new spacecraft.
Spares in place. Transfer vehicles deliver modules and spares that wait on orbit until they’re needed.
- Plug inCustomer modules dock to standard slots
- UpgradeNext-generation compute swapped in
- RestoreA failed sensor replaced from spares
- RetaskA science slot becomes a fuel pod
One interface. Any module.
SWIS, the Symphony Wireless Interface System, is the standard every module docks to. It’s what lets the arm swap hardware in orbit.
Contactless power and dataBuilt for repeated robotic swaps over a 15-year life
The same port on every moduleCompute, sensors, fuel or science, from any vendor
Patent pendingCore design held as a trade secret
Every satellite is born obsolete.
3–7 years from concept to orbit. Then 1–5 years of service.
Once launched, hardware can’t be swapped, upgraded or retasked.
Single-mission satellites are fixed targets. Lose one and the capability is gone until a new launch.
Nothing is forward-positioned. Every replacement starts on the ground.
$30K–$150K per kg per month. A dedicated bus, integration and launch for every mission.
Launch got cheaper. Operating in orbit didn’t.
Operating in orbit, 4–10x cheaper.
One platform. Every mission refreshable on orbit.
Capability that adapts as fast as the threat
- Spares staged on orbit and swapped robotically, so a lost capability comes back without waiting for a launch.
- New payloads fielded in months on a one-year integration cycle, not 3–7 years.
- Retask or upgrade as the mission changes, over secure optical crosslinks.
Buyers: Space Force, Golden Dome, IC, allied defense partners
A supply chain in orbit
- A GEO depot holding 1,200 kg of fuel across 12 pods, with multiple port types.
- Partner transfer vehicles deliver 200 kg modules; servicers refuel client satellites.
- Spares and consumables pre-positioned for on-demand deployment.
Buyers: GEO operators, Space Mobility & Logistics, servicers, OTV providers
Compute that refreshes like a rack
- GPUs, radiators and platform are separate modules. Swap compute each generation and keep the radiators.
- Adagio-XL: 100–200 kW compute nodes with pump-free cooling.
- Process data next to the sensor and downlink answers, not raw data.
Buyers: orbital data centers, hyperscalers, GPU vendors, defense edge processing
Orbit, without building a spacecraft
- Rent capacity by the kilogram and month, from a 10 kg experiment to 1,200 kg.
- Uncrewed: no crew vibration, and room for payloads that can’t fly near people.
- Research, Earth observation, manufacturing, media and sovereign programs.
Buyers: NASA, universities, biotech, Earth observation, sovereign space agencies
The threat outpaced the architecture. The technology to fix it is ready.
Counterspace threats, from ASATs to jamming and cyber, make fixed assets liabilities. Space Force doctrine is shifting to resilience, maneuver and Space Mobility & Logistics.
Autonomy, rendezvous and docking, orbital transfer vehicles, optical crosslinks and in-space robotics have matured enough to build on.
Launch cost has fallen about 10x. The Department of War now buys capability as a service, and AI is pushing data centers past what Earth’s grids can supply.
Budgeted defense demand today. Commercial scale tomorrow.
- Golden Dome
- $17.5B
- Earth observation & sensing
- $5B
- Space data network
- $4.5B
- Hosted payloads
- $2B
- Space domain awareness
- $1.7B
- Orbital compute
- $39B
- Physical AI & robotics
- $12B
- EO & data services
- $8B
- Finance & insurance
- $6B
- Space-based national security
- $5B
- Global compute
- $5.6T
- Physical AI
- $3.3T
- Orbital warehousing & logistics
- $500B
- In-orbit servicing
- $63B
- Space biotech & longevity
- $4B
Built from actual buyers and mission spending, not the entire “space economy.” Symphony Space analysis of budgets and third-party market forecasts.
Not a better satellite. A new way to buy orbit.
Complements, not rivals. Transfer vehicles (Impulse, Momentus, D-Orbit) and servicers (Astroscale, Starfish) deliver and maintain. Adagio is where payloads live and get refreshed.
Why not SpaceX or Blue Origin? Vertically integrated stacks aren’t neutral hosts for sovereign and defense payloads, and Blue Ring is built for mobility, not long-term hosting.
Technology risk, retired step by step.
Hard to copy
2 patents pending on architecture and interface
Interface held as a trade secret
Every payload built to our standard raises switching costs
Launch slot secured for April 2028
Defense contract vehicles take years to win
ITAR/EAR posture and regulatory roadmap documented; NIST 800-171 compliance underway
One architecture. Three product lines.
LEOPreludeApril 2028
Adagio-MiniDec 2028 AdagioQ2 2029
Adagio-XLQ4 2029
Rent orbit, or own it.
Pricing
Six revenue streams
Hosting subscriptionsThe recurring core
Orbital compute hostingDedicated 100 kW fleet
Platform salesSovereign and defense buyers
LicensingInterface and subsystem IP
Engineering servicesIntegration and consulting
Brand & mediaAdvertising modules
Who buys, how we sell
First: Department of War, IC, NASA and allied agencies, through OTAs, SAAs and SBIRs
Next: Commercial space, compute, physical AI, servicing and manufacturing
Always: Operations as a service, so no customer needs a mission ops team
A clear path to scale.
Company projections from Symphony Space’s 10-year operating model (2025–2034). Revenue shown on a log scale. Secondary engines: bespoke builds, servicing, secure comms, on-platform services.
$776K signed before flight.
Defense & government
Space Test Program moving toward our first OTA; contract vehicle in place
Space Force briefed 5×; DARPA, AFRL, Army, Navy, DIU
2 Direct-to-Phase-II SBIRs as prime, 2 as sub
NASA ISS Office and Science Mission Directorate; allied space agencies
Commercial & compute
AWS, Nova Data Centers, Sofia Space; NVIDIA Inception
Orbital Data Center Working Group; Orbital Compute Alliance founding member
Astroscale on orbital logistics and servicing
Science and biotech: SDSI, Mission Space, Apricell, U. Minnesota, MIT
Execution
Interface preliminary design review complete
Prototyping and testing begun; flight software in development
Supply chain and contractors secured
Manufacturing, assembly and test in Northern Virginia
Recognition: Frontier Meets Capital winner, Women Venture Summit; TechCrunch Disrupt finalist; CES Eureka Park; Global Space Awards nominee.
The Conductors.
Former White House OSTP International S&T Lead. Foreign Service Officer across six assignments on emerging tech and space; contributor to the Artemis Accords; relationships across 60+ governments. Founded Hatch: 7 startups in 4 countries. Patent-holding mechanical engineer.
25+ years in space systems. Galileo IOV Chief Engineer for design and validation at ESA-ESTEC; CNES Representative to the U.S. with oversight of 97 missions; Launch Manager at Kourou; payload engineer at Alcatel Space.
Former NIST Chief Engineer; 21 years on satellite and national security systems. PhD, Caltech.
GNC and flight software for MRV and MEP; 100+ console hours on MEV.
NASA Goddard GEO ground project; NASA Langley and White House communications.
Advisors
Five questions, answered.
Orbit is missing its infrastructure layer.
Launch got about 10x cheaper, but every mission still builds, launches and operates its own spacecraft, then throws it away. We turn orbit into shared, refreshable infrastructure that customers rent or own.
- $4K–$10K per kg per month on Adagio, against $30K–$150K for a dedicated mission
- Months, not years from contract to orbit
The budget, the doctrine and the technology arrived together.
Defense is funding resilience and Space Mobility & Logistics now. Docking, robotics and transfer vehicles have matured enough to build on, and AI is pushing compute off the grid.
- $31B in budgeted demand open today, led by Golden Dome
- Adversaries are moving: China’s Shijian-25 appears to have refueled another satellite in GEO in 2025
The people buyers already trust.
A CEO who negotiated technology access with foreign governments and served at the White House OSTP, and a CTO who was Chief Engineer for Galileo design and validation and oversaw 97 missions at CNES.
- $776K signed, 29 LOIs before a single flight
- Space Force briefed 5×; Space Test Program moving toward an OTA
Large, serviceable, uncrewed and multi-orbit. Others offer one or two.
Smallsat hosts are small and can’t be serviced. Crewed stations are slow and expensive. Tugs deliver and leave. Adagio hosts, refreshes and restores payloads for 15 years on one interface.
- 1,200 kg per platform, against ~50–500 kg for smallsat hosts
- Patent-pending interface: every payload built to it raises switching costs
If you invest
- You’re in before Prelude flies in April 2028, when the platform moves from design to flight-proven.
- You own part of the interface orbit plugs into.
- One position spans defense, logistics and compute.
If no one builds this
- Missions keep building, launching and discarding their own spacecraft.
- The standard gets set by closed, vertically integrated stacks, or abroad.
- Defense still buys the capability, from someone else.
Funding the path to flight.
Milestones funded
- 01Critical IP built, validated and flown
- 02Prelude-01 and Adagio-Mini customer contracts and deposits
- 03Engineering maturity and program execution
- 04Licenses and regulatory approvals
- 05Manufacturing and test facility