A future where we can support millions of people living on the Moon or Mars is far more exciting than one where that possibility doesn’t exist.
At today's cost of transporting crew + cargo to the surface of Mars, establishing a serious base in space would cost more than the combined GDP of the entire world.?A multi-order magnitude cost reduction is essential to make an exciting multi-planet future possible.
Today Starpath is announcing over $11M in total funding to bring that multi-planet future closer to reality.
We’re building commercial scale propellant production factories for the surface of the Moon and Mars. Access to abundant propellant on the surface enables fully-reusable mission profiles, where no costly spacecraft hardware is expended per-flight. This both drives down cost and enables payloads to be returned to Earth - a critical capability for servicing a high volume of crewed flights to and from the Moon and Mars.
Starpath is the core surface infrastructure for cities in space. In the long term, our technology will service thousands of regularly scheduled flights with propellant and enable humanity’s first ever self-sustaining civilization in space.
Human civilization should strive to reach the galactic high-score of all civilizations that ever were, and we won’t do so as a boring one planet species.
Join the team and come help us reach the high score! https://lnkd.in/g8kyTTEh
Thanks to Aria Alamalhodaei at TechCrunch for covering our story: https://lnkd.in/g8SPDVpF
Thanks to our incredible investors:?8VC, Fusion Fund, Balerion Space Ventures, Valhalla Ventures, Hummingbird Ventures, Day One Ventures, Contrary, Jason Portnoy, Justin Rose, Lu Zhang, Shane Wall, Ryan JB Taylor, Daniel W., Phil Scully, Rohan Pujara, Devan Malhotra, Haya Hanna, Barend Van den Brande, Masha Bucher, Matt Mickiewicz, Tara Harandi-Zadeh, Jason Chen, Daniel Maren