Space Machines Company

Space Machines Company (SMC) is a manufacturer of space hardware and software, with headquarters in Australia and operations in the United States, United Kingdom and India. We serve as a strategic partner to provide resilience to critical civilian and national security infrastructure for democratic nations across the Indo-Pacific and beyond.

Our mission is to safeguard critical space infrastructure by providing the first integrated security platform to see threats, decide fast and respond at scale. Where spacecraft have traditionally been costly, slow to produce and require extensive effort to coordinate, SMC is developing systems that are produced at scale and operated with human-on-the-loop autonomy to drastically reduce the cost and complexity of orbital operations.

Optimus Viper rapid response vehicles are engineered to be deployed at scale and manoeuvred without regret. At a unit cost orders of magnitude below conventional systems, they change the economics of space operations and enable operators to inspect, monitor, and protect assets across all orbital regimes. These mass-produced vehicles carry diverse payloads for inspection, characterisation, and protection of space infrastructure, and can be deployed individually or in coordinated groups to adapt to evolving mission requirements.

Solstice OS, our AI-driven command and control platform, brings autonomy to bear on the complexity of operating at scale. By fusing data from multiple space domain awareness sources and automating mission planning, threat assessment, and vehicle coordination, Solstice OS allows smaller teams to manage larger constellations and respond to emerging situations in seconds rather than hours.

As one of a handful of providers globally, and the only one outside the United States, we deliver this capability to the US, allies and partners to counter near-peer threats to the satellites that underpin communications, navigation, and economic activity.