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Orca Aerospace launch: what they're building and where to launch next

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What they're building

AI spacecraft operators that lives onboard the vehicle

Batch
Y Combinator Fall 2026
Industry
Industrials
Team size
3
Based
San Francisco, CA, USA

Founders

orcaaerospace.com ↗

See their funding details ↗

Orca Aerospace on the record

What they shipped

  • From its YC profile: At Orca, we are focused on creating the future of spacecraft operations by moving control onto the vehicle. By allowing LLMs to control the satellite using deterministic tooling, we are able to achieve the same holistic, high-quality decisions on "what" to do to carry out a mission while maintaining the safety of systems that decide "how" to execute it. (source)
  • Its own site describes it as: "Orca Aerospace builds the AI spacecraft operator that flies with the vehicle. It understands the mission, watches the systems, and acts when the ground can" (source)

Who is behind it

  • Jacob Ososke, Founder/CEO: Jacob spent over a decade at Lockheed Martin in guidance, navigation, and control, rising from intern to GNC Manager and founding the company's first AI-GNC team. His work focused on autonomous fault recovery and self-healing systems for aerospace platforms. Jacob has an MS in Robotics from Santa Clara University and an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech. (source)
  • Hakan Chunton, Founder/CTO: Founder at Orca Aerospace (YC F26); MIT 6-14 MEng '26 & 16/6-14 SB '25 (source)
  • 1 open role listed on its YC jobs page when the profile was read (2026-09-05). (source)

Timeline

  1. 2026: founded, per its YC profile. (source)

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