Outpost

Outpost is excited to welcome Mechanical Engineer Annette Mendoza. With experience at Blue Origin, Tesla, and NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration she brings expertise in mechanical design, lunar ISRU, and assembly integration to CarryAll’s mission logistics and Earth-return systems.

NASA has selected Outpost for a Phase II SBIR award to advance our autonomous paraglider technology for landing payloads on Mars. This is the same descent and guidance architecture at the core of CarryAll, our reusable Earth-return vehicle designed to bring cargo from orbit back to Earth. The southbound lane doesn’t stop at Earth.

66 years ago today, the Discoverer 13 capsule came home, making it the first human-made object to be recovered from Earth’s orbit. Discoverer 13 completed 17 orbits, survived reentry, splashed into the Pacific, and was recovered by a U.S. Navy helicopter. It weighed about 120 pounds and carried a single payload: an American flag. The point was not what came back but that anything could come back at all. For decades after, return stayed the hard part. Rare, slow, and imprecise. That is the problem we are building around. Outpost is turning return from a milestone into infrastructure. Our CarryAll vehicle is designed to bring 10 metrics tons of payloads back within 10 meters of any GPS coordinate within 60 minutes of reentry, at the scale of a 20-foot shipping container. Read more: https://lnkd.in/g6gKUpM5

Outpost, a young company pioneering the return of cargo from space, has joined forces with Teague, a pillar of design for the last 100 years to create a *new class of spacecraft.* #SpaceTech #Logistics #Downmass

Nate Woodford has joined Outpost as Associate General Counsel. He will support the legal and regulatory work behind building a new layer of orbital logistics infrastructure, from launch and reentry approvals to the commercial agreements that move cargo between orbit and Earth. Welcome to the team, Nate!

Collin Corey has joined Outpost as Vice President of Mission Engineering. He will lead mission readiness and strategy as we move toward our first orbital flight, coordinating across launch providers, landing sites, regulatory agencies, and operational partners. His work will help turn Carryall into a repeatable service for returning cargo from orbit. Welcome aboard, Collin!

Getting to orbit is no longer the whole problem. The next challenge is making what happens in orbit useful here on Earth. That means customers need a practical way to bring cargo back: manufactured materials, mission hardware, pre-positioned supplies, and other high-value payloads. Reliably. Repeatedly. Precisely. Outpost is building reusable Earth-return vehicles for that job. Not as a one-off recovery mission. As a logistics capability customers can plan around.

Launch transformed access to orbit. The next opportunity is building the lane home. Jeff Foust’s new SpaceNews feature examines the Earth-return market now taking shape. SpaceX’s entry is further validation that return from orbit is becoming a major category of its own, and one that will require a range of vehicle sizes, capabilities and operating models. Outpost is building a reusable return architecture scalable from small payloads to 10 metric tons, with precision landing for in-space manufacturing, orbital logistics and national security. Launch opened the lane to space. We’re opening the return lane. Read more: https://bit.ly/4fTiOwM

Specialty optical fibers are one of the clearest examples of how advanced materials can benefit from in-space manufacturing. Our CarryAll vehicle enables scalable in-orbit manufacturing and reliable return, starting with next-generation materials like ultra-low-loss fiber optics. If you’re at the Optica Advanced Photonics Congress today, join us in International Room 3 at 12:30 p.m. PT for a Specialty Optical Fibers panel moderated by Ryan Reel, Outpost’s vice president of commercial partnerships and strategy. Details below 👇

Shipping is catching up with the space age. Rockets solve the upwards lane, we solve the way back. Reusable shipping containers to move goods to, though, and back from orbit. #SpaceX meets #FedEx. We're building reusable vehicles that deliver 10 tons of cargo, anywhere on Earth, in less than an hour. #SpaceLogistics #CargoDelivery #OrbitalShipping