CategorySpace
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Overview
Australian in-space transportation company building Orbital Transport Vehicles (OTVs) for in-orbit servicing and space resilience. Founded by Rajat Kulshrestha (CEO). Optimus reached orbit in 2024 — Australia's largest private satellite.
Optimus Viper is the Rapid response variant (200kg, 500m/s delta-V, sub-1cm imaging). Building Australia's largest spacecraft factory (OF-01) with UTS, capacity for 20 spacecraft/year. AUD 8.5M government grant for Space Maitri mission with India. AUD 2.9M CRC-P grant for AI-driven space domain awareness.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Next Launch
Lunar Mission
Optimus Viper orbital vehicle
Orbital robotics and Solstice OS
Data & sources
Web sources
2
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Models (1)
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Current leadership (1)
- Rajat Kulshrestha CEO & Co-foundersecondary-verified
Founders (1)
- Rajat Kulshresthacofounderfounded 2019-01-01
Safety record
No incidents on record for Space Machines Company.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Space Machines Company in third-party press
Peer companies
- Impulse Space6 models
- AstroForge3 models
- Astrobotic Technology3 models
- Blackswan Space3 models
- China National Space Administration3 models
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory3 models
Mentioned on (2)
Registry pages whose text names Space Machines Company.
Robots and products (1)
People (1)
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdAug 8, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (2)
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Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-21
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Space Machines Company.Peer companies
- Impulse Space6 models
- AstroForge3 models
- Astrobotic Technology3 models
- Blackswan Space3 models
- China National Space Administration3 models
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory3 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Space Machines Company from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/space-machines-company.md
- RSS feed: /companies/space-machines-company/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/d1b7e8c7-b9dd-4734-a3b7-f4571e22dc0e
- Revision history: /companies/space-machines-company/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Impulse Space6 models
- AstroForge3 models
- Astrobotic Technology3 models
- Blackswan Space3 models
- China National Space Administration3 models
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory3 models
Video
We are thrilled to unveil Optimus Viper today - our game-changing "space first responder" that will be able to inspect satellites within 10km in under 24 hours.
We are thrilled to unveil Optimus Viper today - our game-changing "space first responder" that will be able to inspect satellites within 10km in under 24 hours.
Heat Index
Serious50/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Space Machines Company draws attention at the 48th percentile but verifies reality at the insufficient-data level among space robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Nov 7, 2026