Autonomous Manufacturing. From Earth to Orbit.
From tactical drones to reentry heat shields, our autonomous manufacturing systems reshape how defense and aerospace hardware gets built - in a factory, or at the edge.
Robotic Manufacturing for Advanced Polymers and Composites
Orbital builds autonomous systems that 3D print high-performance parts at scale
no tooling, no manual labor, no delays.
Precision Robotics + AI
High-resolution motion control with AI-driven sensing enables precise, repeatable 3D printing — no tooling, no post-processing.
Aerospace Materials
Print mission-critical structures in aerospace-grade materials — from polymer to ceramic composites — ready for orbit, impact, or extreme environments.
Scalable Production
Scale from 1 to 100,000+ units/year in autonomous robotic factories. Lighter, stronger parts — with 75% less labor.
Orbital Drones
STARFIGHTER X - Modular Drone Platform
Designed for efficient manufacturing on site or in an autonomous factory.
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What you can build with Orbital
From UAVs to orbital infrastructure, Orbital’s platform delivers autonomous manufacturing across air, sea, and space.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Lightweight airframes for drones of all sizes and shapes.
Marine Hull Structures
Composite hulls for unmanned surface vessels (USV’s).
Thermal Protection Systems
Carbon and Ceramic Matrix Composite parts of reentry and hypersonics.
Space Grade Components
Radiation, extreme temperature, and micrometeorite tolerant structures.
The Orbital Advantage
All digital workflow
Built to take advantage of 100% digital workflow with Robotics + AI to rapidly iterate and build a variety of products with the same robots.
Hyper Scalable
Seamless path from prototype to high volume production via a family of robotics systems and variety of materials to support wide range of products.
Lighter than metal
With mastery of composites, parts are lighter than metal, leading to better strength-to-weight for faster, longer, and more capable unmanned systems.
Rapidly Deployable
The robotic systems are designed to be forward deployable in micro factories - requiring minimal logistics and no fixed infrastructure.
75%
less labor
75% labor reduction in high-volume manufacturing of unmanned systems with composites.
Cost of Sheet Metal
With relentless focus on cost-reduction, the Orbital manufacturing is cost-competitive with sheet metal, but with performance benefits of composites.
Trusted by Leaders in Defense and Aerospace
ORBITAL has been funded by U.S. Department of Defense and Department of Energy to develop its core technologies and apply it to critical applications such as drones, hypersonics and space.
