Lux Aeterna
A space infrastructure company building the world's first fully reusable satellite platform.
Highlights
Why Lux Aeterna
Lux Aeterna is a space infrastructure company reinventing orbital operations through reentry and reusability. The company is developing the world's first fully reusable satellite bus, engineered for high reliability across multiple missions. Its vertically integrated platform pairs a flight-proven conical heat shield with a modular satellite bus designed for reentry, ground-based refurbishment, and relaunch.
The platform unlocks mission profiles that require recovering hardware: orbital compute, on-orbit servicing, in-space manufacturing, hypersonic testing, and rapid payload return. Its Delphi demonstrator spacecraft has a confirmed rideshare slot on a SpaceX Falcon 9 in Q1 2027.
Lux Aeterna was founded in December 2024 by Brian Taylor, a former engineering leader at SpaceX (Starlink), Amazon Project Kuiper, and Loft Orbital. The company has raised approximately USD $14 million across pre-seed and seed rounds. Backers include Konvoy, Space Capital, Decisive Point, Cubit Capital, Wave Function, Dynamo Ventures, Mission One Capital, and Channel 39.
Founded
2024
Headquarters
Denver, Colorado
Focus
Reusable Satellite Platform
Team
Founder & CEO
Brian Taylor
Brian founded Lux Aeterna in December 2024 after engineering leadership roles at SpaceX (Starlink), Amazon Project Kuiper, and Loft Orbital. He led the structural qualification of the first stack of 60 Starlink satellites. His thesis: satellite infrastructure has been treated as disposable for decades, and a fleet-based reusable model will reshape orbital economics for defense, manufacturing, and commercial missions.
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