Our main product: autonomous AI for last-mile RPO, delivered as deep-tech Robot-as-a-Service and Software-as-a-Service. Orion Proxima supplies the AI-driven perception, planning and control that closes every capture, refuelling and inspection mission in orbit, across robotic manipulators, continuum arms and bespoke end-effectors.
Orion Proxima is a UK deep-tech company building the AI-driven autonomy and capture systems that close every Rendezvous and Proximity Operation in orbit. The last mile is where in-space missions succeed or fail. It is the final few metres where a servicer must perceive, approach, align with, and physically engage a target that was never designed to be approached.
We do not operate missions or sell services to end customers. We are a technology supplier to mission primes, satellite operators and government programmes, providing the autonomous AI software and the capture hardware it commands.
Our portfolio spans multi-DoF robotic arms, hyper-redundant continuum manipulators, refuelling end-effectors and bespoke capture interfaces. Each is driven by the same hardware-agnostic AI autonomy core.
Perception, planning and control transfer across form factors rather than being rebuilt from scratch for every mission. One AI core. Many actuators. Every last mile.
Every figure below depends on the same unsolved problem. Without reliable last-mile capture, the orbital economy stalls at the launch pad.
A capture system is more than a robotic arm. Different missions, different targets and different orbits demand different end-effectors. Our AI autonomy stack is hardware-agnostic by design. The same perception, planning and control AI drives a six-DoF arm, a continuum manipulator threading through a propellant deck, or a refuelling nozzle making contact under thrust.
Six- and seven-DoF manipulators for life-extension docking, debris capture and component assembly. Autonomy-led grasping on cooperative and non-cooperative targets, from launch adapter rings to legacy bus features.
Hyper-redundant, snake-arm class manipulators for confined-access inspection, internal servicing and operations around delicate appendages where a rigid arm cannot reach without collision. Real-time motion planning through constrained envelopes.
Active propellant-transfer interfaces with closed-loop alignment, seal verification and flow control under residual relative motion. Designed for standardised docking plates and bespoke client valves alike.
Custom grippers, magnetic capture interfaces, soft-contact tooling and inspection booms. Co-designed with mission primes when off-the-shelf hardware doesn't fit the target geometry. The autonomy stack adapts to the actuator, not the other way around.
Autonomous AI capture systems are capital-intensive to build but transformative to deploy. We meet primes, operators and agencies where they are: through outright supply, AI software subscription, or per-mission pricing. One AI core, three commercial pathways.
Direct procurement of capture-system hardware and a perpetual licence to the underlying autonomy stack. The traditional model for primes building owned fleets of dedicated servicers.
Subscription access to our AI perception, planning and control stack. Mission primes integrate the Orion Proxima autonomy layer into their own servicers without bespoke development or full IP transfer.
Capture systems delivered on a per-mission basis. Orion Proxima retains hardware ownership; primes integrate for a specific mission window and pay against usage. Suited to single-use ADR or one-off servicing campaigns.
AI perception in space fails differently than on Earth. Lighting is unforgiving, targets are reflective and ill-textured, sensors degrade, and the cost of a bad command is the mission itself. Our stack is engineered around that reality.
AI-driven 6-DoF pose estimation on non-cooperative targets using fused monocular, stereo and time-of-flight sensing. Robust through eclipse transitions, glare and sensor noise.
Adaptive AI control and motion planning that closes on a grapple feature in real time, compensating for relative-motion drift, plume disturbances and contact dynamics. Hardware-agnostic core.
Detection of degraded, deceptive or anomalous sensor inputs before they reach the controller. A requirement for the dual-use future of orbital robotics.
The same perception and control core drives every end-effector in our portfolio. Mission primes get a productised autonomy layer they can integrate, not a bespoke build per programme.
Our autonomy choices are grounded in lessons from operational in-orbit servicing missions, not simulator-only assumptions about how capture will behave.
Architected from day one to meet both commercial servicing requirements and the resilience standards of sovereign orbital security programmes.
Our founders have led perception and computer-vision work on operational in-orbit debris removal missions, and bring machine-learning research and robotics engineering from industry and academia directly into the capture stack.
If you are funding ISAM, building toward a capture mission, or specifying autonomy requirements for an upcoming demonstrator, we'd like to hear from you.