Basalt Tech, founded by Max Bhatti and Alex Choi, is a San Francisco-based company specializing in spacecraft operating systems. Their core mission is to enable autonomy in space for every mission, with a vision of seamless collaboration among satellite fleets. The company's flagship product, Dispatch, is an OS designed to allow various types of satellites to work together efficiently, producing optimized instructions for spacecraft constellations. Basalt Tech targets the aerospace market, focusing on enhancing the operational capabilities of satellite fleets.
Notable affiliated individuals include the founders, who were lead engineers at the MIT CubeSat program and have experience as systems engineers at SpaceX and the UK Ministry of Defense. Basalt Tech is part of the Y Combinator W24 batch, having recently secured seed investment through this prestigious accelerator. The company has made significant strides in improving constellation operations, providing software that enables faster and more effective actions in orbit, thereby making a substantial impact on the aerospace industry.
