General Astronautics

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Robotics for Space R&D

Winter 2026Founded 20252 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA

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Microgravity RoboticsTransactionalSpace agencies and orbital research labsLow competition

Moat

Specialized microgravity robotics design and space-grade manufacturing expertise.

Key risk

Niche market with few customers; long sales cycles; technical risk in space deployment.

Why now

Commercial space stations and orbital manufacturing are becoming viable.

Competitors

Emerging space, NASA in-house

About

Robots for microgravity research and manufacturing.

Founders · 1

Bram SchorkFounder & CEO

SpaceX

Caltech

Bram is a Caltech aerospace engineer who founded General Astronautics after building hardware reliability systems for SpaceX's Starlink Lasers, shipping industrial autonomous robots, and developing optical tracking systems at SBIR-funded startups. Microgravity unlocks better pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, and advanced materials. The bottleneck is labor, not science, and robots can solve that now.

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Launch

Launched on Y Combinator · Feb 2026

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Robots for microgravity research and manufacturing.

General Astronautics builds autonomous robots for space laboratories to perform pipetting, sample prep, plate handling, and reagent mixing without crew, enabling scalable microgravity research and manufacturing for protein crystallization, biologics, cell culture, and silicon products.

Industrials Aviation and Space

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