ThinkOrbital, a company pioneering the next generation of space superiority and in-space infrastructure, announced the successful close of its Seed Round, led by TFX Capital. “This funding enables us to move faster on capabilities that will define how we defend and operate in orbit, whether that’s inspecting spacecraft with Space-to-Space X-ray to determine their capabilities and intent, servicing critical assets, or building infrastructure at a scale that simply cannot be deployed from the ground.”
“The U.S. and our allies are asymmetrically reliant on space for national security and commercial missions; our adversaries will take advantage of that. We must understand and defend the high ground.” “Space is no longer a remote frontier; it is an operational domain,” emphasised Col Lee Rosen (USAF Ret.), Co-founder and CEO of ThinkOrbital.
ThinkOrbital’s revolutionary “Space-to-Space X-ray” system is entering the next phase of trials and will be tested in space on demonstration missions in March and October 2026. Designed to improve space domain awareness (determine adversary capabilities and intent, anomaly resolution, damage assessment, etc.), this system provides penetrating inspection and imaging for definitive characterisation of objects in orbit. ThinkOrbital is advancing new approaches to in-space construction, enabling the assembly of large-scale orbital infrastructure to support:
- Space-based data centres and compute platforms at scale, designed for ever-increasing AI requirements, resilience and new performance frontiers
- Forward basing and “hot storage” of space assets for rapid response military missions
- Large volume for in-space manufacturing, science missions and human habitation
“If we want large-scale, reliable, and capable systems in orbit, we need the ability to build and repair them in space,” said Dr Vojtech Holub, PhD, Co-Founder and CTO of ThinkOrbital. “Our Space-to-Space X-ray capability provides the defence & inspection piece, and our in-space construction roadmap represents a step-change in how we ultimately build the next generation of orbital infrastructure with no limits on size.”
