Top Austin, TX Aerospace Companies (19)
Improving the future and protecting lives is an ambitious mission, but it’s what we do. As a leading aerospace, defense, and security company, we work together to deliver a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services. How we work, is rooted in purpose – a purpose to protect those who protect us, to unite our community of colleagues and customers, and to drive forward the growth and development of our exceptional team members. It's where purpose connects.
ForeFlight was founded in 2007 by aviation entrepreneurs who set out to build elegant, high-performing flight planning and flight bag apps for pilots. ForeFlight Mobile, the company’s flagship product, improves situational awareness, increases productivity, and simplifies decision making for pilots and flight crews all over the world. ForeFlight is used by all segments of aviation, including general, business, commercial, and military aviation. Learn more at www.foreflight.com.
Founded in 1994 by Henri Seydoux, Parrot is today the leading European group in the fast-growing industry of drones. Visionary, at the forefront of innovation, Parrot is a real ‘End to End’ drone group from hardware and software to services.
The genesis of Skyways starts in early 2017 after years of frustration with the traffic in Silicon Valley. Why are we all stuck on the ground, bumper to bumper? Seeing tremendous growth in unmanned aviation along with new advances in energy storage and electric propulsion, an opportunity was born to create a new form of transportation. With an amazing team of engineers and based near Austin TX, we joined YCombinator in the summer of 2017. We haven't stopped working since then.
Applied Research Laboratories, The University of Texas at Austin (ARL:UT) advances the mission of our parent university of education, research, and public service. Through fundamental research, innovative science, and applied engineering, ARL:UT makes significant contributions in support of national security. We are proud that many of our contributions have a direct and positive impact for those who protect us through their military service. An integral part of a top-tier research university, ARL:UT builds upon a 75-year history of world-class research and expertise for the Department of Defense and other sponsors supporting their critical and ongoing quest to maintain the technological advantage that is critical to our nation. We maintain a top-quality research staff with deep technical expertise that provides multi-disciplinary research and unbiased guidance to the government and tackles complex and challenging problems. Our strong commitment to student employment and programs provides support to the next generation of scientists and engineers and helps to shape the future of defense research. We value diversity in our staff, in our multi-disciplinary research, and in our approach to innovation. We are committed to having an atmosphere where everyone we employ or with whom we interact is respected.
Firefly is developing a family of launch and in-space vehicles and services that provide industry-leading affordability, convenience, and reliability. Firefly’s launch vehicles utilize common technologies, manufacturing infrastructure and launch capabilities, providing LEO launch solutions for up to ten metric tons of payload at the lowest cost per kg in the small-launch class. Combined with Firefly’s in-space vehicles, such as the Space Utility Vehicle and Blue Ghost Lunar Lander, Firefly provides the space industry with a single source for missions from LEO to the surface of the Moon or beyond. Firefly is headquartered in Cedar Park, TX.
SkyGrid, a Boeing, SparkCognition company, is powering the next generation of aviation. As the only airspace management system built on AI and blockchain, we’re solving the industry’s biggest challenges integrating unmanned aircraft in the global airspace and executing autonomous operations. Our AerialOS™ monitors, predicts, and adapts to changes in airspace traffic, environment conditions, and vehicle health to intelligently route, synchronize, and manage unmanned aircraft. Based in Austin, Texas, SkyGrid is enabling a wide variety of commercial drone operations from package delivery to emergency assistance.
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk to revolutionize space transportation, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary. SpaceX has gained worldwide attention for a series of historic milestones. It is the only private company ever to return a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit, which it first accomplished in December 2010. The company made history again in May 2012 when its Dragon spacecraft attached to the International Space Station, exchanged cargo payloads, and returned safely to Earth — a technically challenging feat previously accomplished only by governments. Since then Dragon has delivered cargo to and from the space station multiple times, providing regular cargo resupply missions for NASA.
Applied Aeronautics designs and builds affordable, long-range drones for government, emergency response and commercial customers around the globe. Our tailored drones can be found in over 55 countries and on every continent with everyone from the US Government and NASA to Boeing.
Trusted by leading brands globally, DroneDeploy is transforming the way businesses leverage drones and aerial data across industries, including agriculture, construction, mining, inspection and surveying. Simple by design, DroneDeploy enables professional-grade imagery and analysis, 3D modeling and more from any drone on any device.
Slingshot Aerospace, Inc. aims to change the way organizations across industries leverage data from earth and space with its situational awareness technologies. The company empowers organizations to quickly navigate, analyze, and leverage data from different sources - such as satellites, airplanes, drones, and ground-based sensors - and applies advanced analytics, machine learning, and collaboration tools to provide clarity in complex environments. Launched in 2017 and based in Austin, TX, and Los Angeles, CA, Slingshot Aerospace seeks to help government, commercial, and emergency management customers build a safer and more sustainable world.
Wilder Systems is an industrial services company that delivers Robots as a Service for aircraft manufacturing and maintenance. We are focused on dual-use aerospace applications for both commercial and military which includes robotic drilling into aircraft, defastening, sealing, non-destructive inspections, and even a robotic aircraft wash system. Our mission is to lead the way towards a 'lights-out' future where the majority of aerospace manufacturing tasks are performed by modular, autonomous robots.
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CesiumAstro engineers and manufactures communications modules, payloads, and satellites for space and airborne applications. Our multi-domain solutions enable a diverse range of commercial and defense applications. With offices in Austin, Texas; Broomfield, Colorado; El Segundo, California; and the United Kingdom; our global operations include hardware and software engineering, manufacturing, mission systems, systems engineering, and wireless communications engineering.
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Umbra builds next-generation space systems that observe the Earth in unprecedented fidelity. Our mission: Deliver global omniscience. To stay ahead of climate change, geopolitical risk, and other major crises and issues, we need a global understanding of what is changing, where, and how fast. Umbra provides easy access to the highest quality commercial satellite data available, which is an indispensable tool for the growing number of organizations monitoring the Earth. We empower our customers to create the solutions that inform, inspire, and address our planet’s most pressing needs. We’re helping to create a brand new industry that has never meaningfully existed before.
HyperSciences is a platform technology company that is solving some of the most challenging problems in tunneling, energy drilling, transportation, aerospace, and materials production.
Hubs is an online manufacturing platform that provides engineers with on-demand access to a global network of manufacturing services. Users can easily upload their design, instantly receive a quote, and start production at the click of a button. Founded in Amsterdam in 2013, Hubs has raised over US$30 million and produced more than 7 million parts, using various manufacturing technologies, including CNC machining, 3D printing, injection molding and sheet metal fabrication
Fassen is a startup focused on welding quality programs & project controls. We offer the industrial construction and fabrication industry effective tools to manage their work. We focus on People, and how they build things. Building things is a process of connecting stuff. Our mission is to help People connect more & waste less. Fassen develops tools to create clear stories for creators about their work, and clear stories for managers about the status and quality of every connection – from conception to completion. Our products provide tradesmen the information they need to perform their work faster, better, and with less waste. Our Services empower coordinators with real-time progress, and documentation at the press of a button.
Urban Sky is revolutionizing the earth observation industry. We're a new venture-backed stealth startup that's pioneering an entirely new category of high-altitude vehicle we call the 'Microballoon.' Our small, reusable high-altitude balloons will capture the highest resolution, freshest, lowest cost broad area earth observation data in the world.
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