Orca Aerospace
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About Orca Aerospace
YC company profile
AI spacecraft operators that lives onboard the vehicle
At Orca, we are focused on creating the future of spacecraft operations by moving control onto the vehicle. By allowing AI models to control the satellite using deterministic tooling, we are able to achieve the same holistic, high-quality decisions on "what" to do to carry out a mission while maintaining the safety of systems that decide "how" to execute it.
- YC batch: Fall 2026
- Founded: 2026
- Team size: 5
- Location: San Francisco
- Country: US
- Status: Active
- Industry: Industrials
- Stage: Early
- Tags: AIOps, Space Exploration, Satellites
- YC partner: Nicolas Dessaigne
Founders
Jacob Ososke — Founder/CEO
Jacob spent over a decade at Lockheed Martin in guidance, navigation, and control, rising from intern to GNC Manager and founding the company's first AI-GNC team. His work focused on autonomous fault recovery and self-healing systems for aerospace platforms. Jacob has an MS in Robotics from Santa Clara University and an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.
Hakan Chunton — Founder/CTO
Founder at Orca Aerospace (YC F26). CS/Aero at MIT (MEng, SB). Research entails on-board satellite collision avoidance, trajectory optimization, and imitation learning.
Source: Y Combinator · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.