ORB-01 / FY26
37.2872° N 121.9499° W CAMPBELL, CA

Composites,
designed and built
by robots.

The advanced materials, and the factory to produce them at rate. Built for defense, space, and energy.

Programs with the U.S. Air Force, Space Force, Navy, and NASA
01 — The Mission

The most advanced factory for composites.

The most advanced products — in defense, space, and energy — demand the most advanced materials. For nearly every mission-critical part, that means composites: lighter, stronger, more thermally capable than metal. But composites have never reached mass production. Traditional layup is too slow, too manual, too expensive.

Orbital changes that by coupling the material and the factory. Composites engineered to be produced at rate, and a factory architected around those materials — digital design, physics-based simulation, robotic production, and closed-loop learning, built together. A factory that compounds, not a process that plateaus.

02 — The Factory

The material. And the factory to produce it.

Materials First

The factory exists for the material.

Polymer, carbon, and ceramic matrix composites — engineered in-house to be designed, simulated, printed, and learned on. Every pillar of the factory serves the part.

Orbital's robotic printing of a composite preform
Design Simulate Produce Learn
/ 01 — Design

Digital Design

AI-assisted and generative design. From requirement to optimized composite geometry in hours, not weeks.

↳ Requirement to geometry
/ 02 — Simulate

Simulation & Digital Twin

Physics-based modeling of cure, warp, stress, and failure — plus a digital twin of the factory itself. Predict before hardware moves.

↳ Geometry to plan
/ 03 — Produce

Robotic Production

Multi-axis robotic cells print aerospace-grade composites without tooling or layup. One platform — drones, heat shields, space structures.

↳ Plan to part
/ 04 — Learn

Physical AI

Closed-loop sensing on every layer. The factory learns from every part — tightening tolerances, lifting yields, compounding capability.

↳ Every part improves the next
03 — Evidence

The factory works. Here's what it makes.

E.01 StarFighter X drone

Tactical Drone Airframes

Group 1–3 UAV airframes, designed and manufactured end-to-end.

↳ StarFighter X · U.S. Air Force
E.02 Composite rocket nozzle during hot fire

Rocket Nozzles

Carbon and ceramic matrix composite nozzles for launch and propulsion systems.

↳ In development with national labs
E.03 12U CubeSat deployed in orbit

Space Structures

Satellite and CubeSat components qualified for orbit.

↳ Flight heritage today
E.04 Composite marine hull printing

Marine & Energy Hardware

Large-format composite structures — hulls, blades, and next-generation energy systems.

↳ In development