Aether operates a sovereign constellation of Earth-observation spacecraft, returning calibrated insight on climate, oceans, and human systems — in near-real time, at planetary scale.
Three pillars of orbital observation. Each instrument is calibrated against ground truth at a network of twelve reference stations. Each pixel arrives with its provenance attached.
Atmospheric methane, CO₂, NOx, and aerosol optical depth resolved to 200 m. We close the carbon budget over 14 million km² of monitored biomes — daily, not annually.
Sea-surface temperature, salinity, chlorophyll, and mesoscale current vectors. Twelve-hour revisit across every commercial shipping lane and every protected marine area on Earth.
Settlement growth, agricultural moisture stress, nighttime energy intensity, and post-disaster damage extent. Decision-grade context for governments, insurers, and humanitarian operators.
Four spacecraft families. One sensor philosophy: instrument-grade calibration, geometric fidelity, and unbroken provenance from photon to product.
A 240-channel pushbroom across the 400–2500 nm window. Resolves hydrocarbon plumes, vegetation stress signatures, and shallow-water bathymetry from a 580 km orbit.
X-band quad-pol radar that sees through cloud, smoke, and the polar night. Designed for mm-scale interferometric change detection across infrastructure and ice.
Cryogenically cooled LWIR for sea-surface temperature, urban heat island monitoring, and undeclared industrial emission. Resolves a 0.05 K differential at 70 m.
A 532/1064 nm dual-wavelength backscatter lidar profiling aerosol, cloud, and trace-gas columns. The signal that closes our methane budget over open water.
L4 flies as a single distributed instrument — twelve spacecraft on three sun-synchronous planes, downlinked across twelve ground stations on five continents.
The planet is not a metaphor. It is the only argument we will ever have. We do not save it — we choose, instrument by instrument, pixel by pixel, to see it clearly.
Three missions, three disciplines, three closed-loop outcomes. Each one is a working brief: the question that arrived, the instruments we flew against it, and the decision it changed on the ground.
Continuous methane and CO₂ flux estimation over the Amazon basin, paired with sub-monthly deforestation alerts. Delivered to three national monitoring agencies under sovereign data terms.
Read the missionDark-vessel detection at the EEZ scale, fusing SAR signatures, AIS gaps, and thermal wake persistence. Provided real-time evidence to four coast-guard agencies; thirty-one prosecutions in the first nine months.
Read the missionWithin seventy-two hours of the Antakya seismic event, L4-SAR delivered a building-level damage classification across 38 km² of urban fabric, directly seeding Red Crescent triage routes.
Read the missionThe signal is only the beginning. These are three windows into a working week — rendered exactly as our analysts see them, before publication.
A single morning frame over Manaus — cloud-free, calibrated, geometrically perfect. Twelve canopy classes resolved at eight meters. The methane plume in the upper left was new this week; the agency that needed to know it had a brief on the desk by lunchtime.
Thermal infrared over the Atlantic continental shelf, with the warm-core eddy printing clean against cool shelf water. Coast Guard partners run their counter-IUU vessel models against this frame nine times an hour. The bright thermal blob is a fleet operating where it shouldn't be.
Nighttime imaging over Delhi during the late-monsoon load week. Streetlights map the arterial roads; sodium-orange industrial corridors print to the east; the dim band along the river is the floodplain residential zone whose electrification we've been tracking month-on-month for our humanitarian partner.
Aether is held by sixty-three engineers, scientists, and operators — lifted from spacecraft programmes, climate institutes, and humanitarian operations across eleven nationalities.
Spacecraft systems engineer who flew her first instrument in 2009. Built the L4 mission profile on a napkin in Ljubljana, then talked thirty people into believing the napkin.
Wrote the orbital-mechanics library that placed L4-01 through L4-12 in the right sky on the right day. Reluctant to be photographed; happy to be quoted on station-keeping.
Glaciologist by training, methane scientist by accident. Designed the L4 carbon-closure framework now in use by three national inventories.
Built the twelve ground stations and the latency-sub-fifteen-minute pipeline behind them. Once spent a weekend rebuilding an antenna in Svalbard in –28 °C.
Marine geographer with a decade in dark-vessel intelligence. Holds the working session on Tuesdays where most of our coast-guard relationships were forged.
Capital structurer who, ten years in, decided he wanted to fund instruments instead of yields. Closed Aether's Series B in a single afternoon.
Was on the ground in Antakya seventy-two hours after the quake. Will be the reason the next response is faster.
Owns thermal margins, attitude control, and the deep, untroubled sleep of someone who has stress-tested every battery cell flying.
Three programmes are in build behind the operational L4 constellation. Each is funded; each has a flight date; each will compound, not replace, what flies today.
A 400-channel hyperspectral imager at 4 m GSD. We will resolve the spectral fingerprint of every major industrial gas above background, every minor crop disease at the field level, and every algal bloom from coast to thirty kilometers out.
A bistatic radar pair flown in tight formation, producing global digital elevation at one-meter vertical precision — once. After that, every centimeter of subsidence, uplift, or landslide creep, observed end-to-end.
The longest-range programme: a physics-first digital twin of the atmosphere, ingesting every L4 photon, every L5 spectrum, every L6 pixel. Forecasting climate-relevant signals at the regional scale, on a five-day operational horizon.
Every product we publish, after a thirty-day commercial window, is mirrored into the open archive — free for academic, humanitarian, and sovereign use. Six hundred terabytes added in 2025; eight hundred targeted for 2026.
We hire the small number of people who can build the very specific things this work demands. Roles are listed when we can describe them in plain sentences — not before.
Everything a working reporter needs to write about us accurately, on deadline. For interviews or fact-checks, the press desk is on a four-hour SLA.
Company background, leadership bios, mission summary, instrument specifications, and approved boilerplate.
PDF · 4.2 MB ZIP · Brand assetsSVG and PNG logos in monochrome, full-colour, and reversed-out variants. Includes typography specimen and palette reference.
ZIP · 18.7 MB ZIP · ImagerySpacecraft renders, mission imagery, ground-station photography, and approved executive portraits in print and web resolution.
ZIP · 312 MB PDF · One-pagerSingle-page reference: spacecraft families, instruments, ground segment, performance figures, data products, and accreditation.
PDF · 980 KB CSV · Public archive indexMachine-readable inventory of the L4 open archive, updated nightly. Spatial coverage, temporal extent, sensor and product type.
CSV · 14.2 MB Direct · Press deskFor interview requests, fact-checking, and embargoed briefings. Four-hour SLA during European working hours; eight hours otherwise.
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