Build a spacecraft
- Wait years for a ride
- Design a bespoke vehicle
- Throw the satellite away
Rent timeon orbit.
Plug into a utility grid in space. Pillar supplies power, data, thermal, mobility, and mission operations, so you can focus on your product.
Space is becoming a utility for industries on Earth.
Microgravity changes how molecules crystallize, how crystals grow, and how materials form. For medicine, semiconductors, and advanced materials, that isn’t a curiosity — it’s a manufacturing advantage you can’t reproduce on the ground.
Until now, using it meant building a spacecraft or waiting years for a ride. Pillar replaces that with standing infrastructure: a reusable satellite already in orbit, ready to power your payload and bring your product home.
Rent a satellite
- Fly on any rocket
- Dock on orbit and operate
- Choose how the mission ends
Years of vehicle development, deleted. Your payload is the whole program.
You bring the payload. The spacecraft is already there.
Your payload flies in a standardized adapter and docks with a Pillar satellite in low Earth orbit. Every core spacecraft service is provided for the full mission — the spectrum runs across the whole system.
~300 kgPayload per adapter
~5 kWPayload power
up to 20 GbpsData downlink
LEO · 550 kmOperating orbit
First-platform (V1) targets, in iteration
How This Works
Booking to delivery in eight events — the path shifts azure to magenta as your mission progresses. Re-entry is one mission mode, not the whole offering: the satellite stays in orbit either way, ready for the next customer.
Book mission
We pair your payload with a standard Pillar adapter and reserve your mission window.
Integrate
Payload and adapter are integrated into the launch configuration.
Launch & separate
Your payload launches on any rocket and separates into orbit, free-flying.
Rendezvous
A Pillar satellite locates your payload and flies to it autonomously.
Dock
The satellite docks with your payload and becomes its spacecraft.
Maneuver & operate
Power, data, thermal, mobility, and operations run your payload through the mission.
Receive data
Mission data arrives in your web portal as it comes down.
Dispose or recover
Your product comes home in its capsule, or your payload is disposed at end of mission. The satellite stays in orbit — and repeats every six months.
Return or remain. The satellite stays either way.
Re-entry is one mission mode, not the whole offering. Every mission ends with Return & reset for the satellite — what differs is where your payload goes next.
Return
For products that need to come back. Your finished product returns to Earth in its capsule while the satellite stays in orbit for the next customer.
- Reentry adapter and capsule recovery
- Made in microgravity, used on Earth
- Satellite resets for its next mission
Remain
For payloads that benefit from staying up — continued operation, testing, or production on orbit, with power, data, thermal, mobility, and mission operations supplied for the full lease.
- Leases run months to years
- Data down through your web portal
- Extend, adjust, or conclude on your terms
Made in microgravity, used on Earth.
The first missions serve industries where orbit already outperforms the lab.
Fly your first payload.
Tell us about your payload and mission objective. Our team reviews every request personally and gets back to you as fast as we can with a fit assessment and next steps.
Book a Mission