A physically unreachable trust layer for sensitive data.
AetherSpace is building encrypted orbital storage and secure communication infrastructure — the foundation for a future orbital delivery layer for data that cannot afford to live only on Earth.
Ground infrastructure is powerful, but physically reachable.
Encryption protects content. It does not remove the physical and jurisdictional vulnerability of the servers that relay, queue, and store high-value data.
Physical compromise
Data centers can be seized, raided, disrupted, or destroyed. The trust boundary still ends at a building on Earth.
Sovereignty pressure
Enterprises, governments, and high-value individuals increasingly need infrastructure that is harder to coerce or localize.
Incomplete E2EE trust
Secure messaging protects plaintext, but relay queues, key directories, and metadata-adjacent systems remain ground-bound.
Move the minimal trusted core to orbit.
AetherSpace is not a flying backend. The product keeps fast-moving complexity on the ground, while the physically sensitive trust boundary moves into LEO.
Orbital Trust Stack
A small, defensible software layer turns a satellite payload into secure data infrastructure.
- Client-held keys and local encryption
- Orbital ciphertext storage and relay queues
- Bandwidth-aware store-and-forward scheduling
- Verifiable receipts, audit logs, and integrity checks
Radiation risk becomes a software architecture opportunity.
The goal is not to claim bit flips never happen. The goal is to detect corruption, prove integrity, recover data, and make the proof auditable.
Integrity Layer
File hashes, platform checksum comparison, chunk manifests, retry logic, and audit logs.
Recoverability Engine
Erasure coding, periodic scrubbing, bad-chunk quarantine, replicated metadata, and versioned recovery.
Cryptographic Proof Layer
Content-addressed orbital storage, quorum reads, Byzantine-verified metadata, and investor-grade attestations.
From secure storage wedge to LEO trust network.
Each phase adds customer value without changing the core thesis: physically resilient trust infrastructure for sensitive data.
Ground Simulation
Full-stack secure relay, key directory, client crypto, and intermittent-link simulation.
Orbital Custody
First focused mission proves encrypted store, downlink, and verification loop.
Reliable Capacity
Redundant storage, erasure coding, multi-ground-station scheduling, and regional routing.
Space CDN Layer
Multi-node replication and orbital routing for secure delivery and distributed custody.
Hardware precision meets software scale.
Jeremy Hong
Co-Founder & Hardware Lead. Precision hardware, thermal-mechanical modeling, and validation for extreme environments.
Ken Tang
Co-Founder & Software Lead. Distributed systems, AI/ML infrastructure, and cloud-scale architecture.
Gary Zhou
Co-Founder. Successful serial entrepreneur with deep experience across space-related business, operations, and strategic commercialization.
Secure data should not depend only on ground infrastructure.
We are engaging pilot partners and investors interested in physically resilient, cryptographically verifiable data infrastructure.