Orbital assembly · Zürich

Satellites will outgrow rockets.

Shipwright specialises in orbital assembly. Our first product: antennas assembled from:

  • mass-produced tiles
  • one standard fitting
  • a resident robot that stays for life
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The Ceiling

Launch is solved. The fairing is not.

  • Every satellite must still fold into a ~5 m fairing.
  • Past the fairing, assembly in orbit is the simplest answer.
The Product · Assembled Apertures

One antenna, three layers.

The Tile

A ~1 m² phased-array panel, using terrestrial electronics supply chains and launched flat-packed.

The Spar Fitting

A passive, standardised mating interface on every tile edge: structure, power, data and RF coherence across the joint.

The Rigger

A launched resident assembly robot, which then stays for life completing inspection, maintenance and space-domain awareness tasks.

The Master Plan

The structure, then the workforce, then the shipyard.

Three stages, each proven in flight before the next depends on it. Antennas first.

MISSION ZERO / 2028

Mission Zero · the proof

Three tiles · one rideshare launch

Three tiles and one manipulator, mated across the Spar fitting in orbit. Coherent beamforming across the assembled joint.

STAGE 01 / NOW–2030

Assembled antennas · the structure

Defence + direct-to-device

Tile, Spar and rigger delivered as working apertures. This supplies radar, signals intelligence, jam-resistant comms and direct-to-device broadband.

STAGE 02 / 2029–2035

The resident workforce · the service

Every structure keeps its rigger

The rigger that assembled each structure stays with it for inspection, space-domain awareness and, eventually, repair and upgrades.

STAGE 03 / 2035+

The orbital shipyard

Everything too big to launch whole

Structures such as radiator fields, solar farms, depots and lunar structures will be assembled by fleets of riggers through the Spar standard.

Assurance

Assurance is built into every rigger.

  • Uncertainty bounds on every estimate.
  • Safety envelopes on every contact operation.
  • Abort as a verifiable behavior.
  • Every operation logged and signed.
Why Us · Why Switzerland

Built in Zürich.

We hire from the heart of European robotics: ETH, EPFL, DLR.

Get In Touch

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too big to launch?

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Contact Us

info@shipwright.space · Zürich · Switzerland