Team and requirements
Recruit the core engineers, select the first workload, define the mission and obtain supplier and test quotes.
Company / Our mission
Build in modules.
Think in fleets.
Asterwatt’s long-term goal is to design, mass-produce and operate orbital AI data centers for frontier AI labs and hyperscalers.
01The company we’re building
Hardware ambition.
Operational discipline.
We want to build an infrastructure company with repeatable hardware, dependable operations and a clear cost per unit of useful compute.
The first task is a credible module and a measurable experiment. Manufacturing at scale and operating a fleet come after the technical and commercial case is proven.
02Founder
Ilyas
Founder · France
10+
Years in critical IT operations
My starting point was mechanical and electromechanical engineering. I then built a career running and supporting critical IT systems in financial markets.
Asterwatt brings those interests together: physical systems, computing infrastructure and reliable operations.
Engineering foundation
Mechanical baccalaureate and an electromechanics diploma in industrial engineering and maintenance.
Operations experience
Critical financial-market systems, incident response, Linux, SQL and support across time zones.
The next step is to build a specialist team across spacecraft systems, thermal engineering and AI infrastructure.
03Proposed development roadmap
Evidence at
every step.
An initial 18-month planning framework, starting after funding. The first flight depends on readiness, approvals, partners and launch availability.
Ground prototype
Integrate compute, power and cooling. Test the design and refine the mass, thermal and communications budgets.
Qualification and integration
Complete the required tests and prepare a first flight experiment, subject to technical readiness and mission constraints.
Repeat and scale
Use test results to improve the module, validate customer demand and prepare repeatable production.
Planning milestones, not committed launch dates. Fleet deployment would require further validation and capital.
04The first team
Specialists for
a shared system.
Spacecraft & thermal
Mission design, power systems, radiators, structural integration and qualification.
Embedded & reliability
Control systems, fault recovery, radiation mitigation and safe operation.
AI infrastructure
Inference workloads, performance measurement, secure data handling and ground operations.
Priority capabilities for the founding team. Hiring is planned as funding and requirements are confirmed.
Asterwatt / Pre-seed
An ambitious destination.
A concrete starting point.
Learn how the first funding would support the team, engineering work and demonstrator.
Read the investment case