Autonomous space drones.
That inspect and diagnose high-value assets at the point of need.
Space is designed for missions. We build sustainment platforms for operations.
A century of launch-once, fail-once.
Critical space infrastructure is fragile by design. Assets are launched, they fail, and they are replaced. Replacement and waste management (like debris removal) add no real long-term value. That is the treadmill. And no one can inspect and diagnose at the point of need today: every look requires a spacewalk, a robotic-arm pass, or a dedicated mission.
These are the assets under navigation, weather warning, communications, and the timing signals that banks and power grids run on. When they fail, the failure lands here.
The treadmill. Launch, fail, replace, repeat. Play it: Orbit Keeper →
Sustained operations,
not one-time missions.
Resilience is an engineered capability. Arkwright builds the layer that delivers it, and steps off the treadmill.
Autonomous space drones.
One sustainment platform. Two halves, one loop, many nodes. Help in orbit is a launch away, so HORUS lives at the asset: conquering the tyranny of distance.
Inspect and diagnose. The AI layer that monitors, diagnoses, and decides across critical assets, with a human in the loop. Damage found in hours, not months.
Service. Robotic systems that service, resupply, and restore assets where they operate. No spacewalk. No dedicated mission.
One HORUS inspects. A swarm of Hori sustains.
HORUS operates as a multi-node mesh: cooperating drones that share tasking, coverage, and comms. Lose one node and the mesh closes the gap. And the same mesh assembles: Space Factories →
Repair at the asset instead of waiting on the ground.
Assets serviced in place instead of written off.
The monetization of avoided failure.
Fewer replacements. Less waste on orbit.
Anatomy of Horus.
HORUS is an autonomous space drone: an orbital micro free-flyer with AI for inspection, diagnosis, and servicing of high-value assets at the point of need. Onboard AI diagnosis, patent pending. Built on flown heritage hardware. Deploys from partner vehicles and stations and operates as a mesh of cooperating nodes. Named for the eye of myth, wounded and made whole again. The workhorse drones of the space industrial revolution.
Capture and assess up close.
Identify issues and prioritize, onboard.
Autonomous precision flight.
Perform repairs and enhancements.
From inspection to industry.
Know the true state of every critical asset.
Repair, resupply, and restore at the point of need.
In-space production at scale.
Others treat manufacturing in orbit as a horizon line. It is where this company comes from: a lineage that runs from electronics for space structures in 2002 to in-space manufacturing launching onboard the ISS. The drones have one job: keeping space operational. The road continues to factories in space → Proof, in order: the timeline →
U.S. Space Force studies on semiconductor manufacturing in space and commercial spaceports. National in-space manufacturing roadmapping with NIST and the Department of Commerce.
100+ combined years of work experience across in-space manufacturing, AI, autonomous systems, materials, astrophysics, robotics, and semiconductors. A Fellow of the National Academies. Early Tesla AI robotics. Introductions on request.
A million-year human civilization thriving beyond Earth. That is the century arc this work serves. Today's job is nearer. Keep critical assets operational.
Pilot & partner.
Getting there is a mission. Staying is an industry.