THERMAORBIT SYSTEMS

Therma Orbit Systems

We develop thermal systems for the next generation of orbital infrastructure — starting with one of the industry's biggest physical bottlenecks: rejecting heat in space.

Context

Compute is moving to orbit — cooling is holding it back

A growing number of data centers are being designed to operate in space: unlimited solar power, no cooling water requirement, no land-use conflicts on the ground. The limiting factor is not compute itself, but waste heat.

In vacuum, radiation is the only heat rejection mechanism available — convection and conduction to ambient air simply do not exist. Conventional radiators solve this with large, fixed metal panels. As compute power grows, that area grows with it — and with it, mass and launch volume, often disproportionately to the actual payload.

100%
of heat rejection in orbit happens through radiation alone — no convection, no conduction to ambient air is possible
↑ with power
radiator area of conventional systems scales nearly proportionally with a data center's electrical power
Mass & volume
drive launch cost more than the compute hardware itself — the radiator becomes the limiting component
Our approach

A new class of radiator, not a bigger panel

Rather than scaling the established panel-radiator design further, we are working on a fundamentally different heat-rejection principle for operation in vacuum — with the goal of rejecting significantly more heat per kilogram of system mass than today's radiator systems.

We are deliberately not publishing the technical details of our approach yet — we are currently in the experimental validation phase and in the process of filing a patent. For specific inquiries (investors, partners, press), we're happy to talk under a non-disclosure agreement.
Team

Founded by

Founder
Dr. Tim Smolnik
Founder
Sascha Weber
Contact

Get in touch

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