Robots to film, inspect, and maintain large space infrastructure
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Joined January 2025
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We love our Luxonis camera! Excited to check out the FFC.
Congrats to @ORBES_space on winning our OAK 4 FFC giveaway with @OpenRoboticsOrg! ๐
Their free-flying robot, ORB, heads to the ISS next year with an OAK-D Pro W on board, and OAK 4 FFC is up next for a more compact perception & collision avoidance setup ๐ฐ๏ธ
Thank you to everyone who entered, we had a great time internally reading through all the submissions. Keep an eye out, we may do some more of these!
Thrilled to have our paper and presentation accepted to the International Astronautical Congress - #IAC2026!
We will be presenting an overview of our ORB robot development at ๐๐:๐๐ ๐ฅ๐จ๐๐๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ก๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ๐๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐ญ ๐๐ญ๐ก ๐ข๐ง ๐๐จ๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐.
Great to be invited by @alliance_socal at the @SpaceWERXDOD to pitch at the SoCal Innovation Summit.
Hey, who ordered propellers?
Our robot R&D goes down to the basic building blocks where physical testing is everything.
Details like this make ORB extra responsive when completing repetitive cargo ops, inspection, and filming inside space stations and orbital warehouses.
๐๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐ก๐๐ซ๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฌ๐๐ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐๐๐.
๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ญ and ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ง๐ข were developed by NASA JSC as robotic camera scouts, spotting problems that previously required complex spacewalks.
#SpaceTech
Billions of dollars in space infrastructure is being built without a way to maintain or upgrade it long-term.
๐๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ฑ๐จ-๐๐๐. While independent servicers just visit, our Exo-ORB launches with your infrastructure and lives on it.
@SymphonySpace
As covered by @SpaceNews_Inc - spacenews.com/orbes-unveils-โฆ
and @PayloadSpace - payloadspace.com/orbes-unveiโฆ
Full release on our website: orbes.space/news
Congrats SpaceX on a epic shot!
@ORBES is building our micro satellite Exo-ORB to provide 3rd person POV shots like this to all space infrastructure.
Soon this will be common for all of humanity's most ambitious missions. Let's talk @NASAAdmin @NASA
We've been busy.
ORB is our first product: a free-flying robot to assist astronauts inside the space station and extend operations for crewed and un-crewed missions.
Follow our journey to bring ORB to the ISS, future space stations and crewed capsules. @NASAArtemis @NASAAdmin
ALT 3 images left to right progress of the ORB free-flying space robot. The robots are around the size of a watermelon. From a 1 degree string test with 14 propellors, to one with 12 propellors, with 4 per axis, to camera payloads from Blackmagic Design and some yet-to-be-announced major media players.
On the one year anniversary of our first investment, a glimpse at ORBES history: our first 6 months
On a journey to build robots to film & maintain space infrastructure. From inside to outside our most ambitious structures.
To all who've touched this mission, thank you!
We're so excited for the Artemis crew to take the new Earthrise photo.
58 years ago, Bill Anders turned his head to the window and exclaimed
"Oh my God, look at that picture over there! There's the Earth coming up. Wow, is that pretty!"
"You got a color film, Jim?"
They have brought three Nikon cameras:
Two D5s (one with a 14-24mm wide lens to capture the whole Moon, an another with 80-400mm zoom lens for the details) and a Nikon Z9 with a 35mm lens.
During the fly-by, they will dim the capsule lights to get the best picture.
Beautiful shot @blueorigin!
@ORBES_space is making this possible for all kinds of space missions. Reach out
