New project with @CSEMInfo and @Empa_CH called HERMES, developing superalloys optimized for additive manufacturing, higher operating temps and better mechanical properties. Over 1M€ budget, largely funded by @esa Phi Lab. Results go straight into our engine hardware 🇨🇭🔬
GRAZE mission: integration update 🛰️
Our first orbital payload is getting closer to launch readiness.
Software integration with its carrier ship is complete, with communication and interface tests all coming back nominal. Hardware integration is nearly done!
One platform, several configurations 🔧🛰️ GEO, MEO, lunar piggyback, LYOBA adapts its propellant load, payload adapter and mission profile to match. Same core, same production line, mission after mission.
3 months from paper to concrete 🏗️ Heavy construction done for our engine test stand at Chavalon. System installation underway, stand goes online end of July 🇨🇭🔥
First battleship TCA being machined from copper. A pathfinder to iterate on ignition and injector geometry before moving to the flight chamber design. One prototype at a time.
Ready when you are 🚀 LYOBA uses storable, green propellants. No boil-off, no race against the clock. Fuelled and waiting on the ground, operational longer in orbit unlocking a wide range of missions and new capabilities for our customers.
See you in Colorado Springs 🇺🇸🇨🇭
PAVE will be at the 2026 #Space Symposium in Colorado Springs!
If you will be there and want to connect, reach out! 🚀
See you from 13–16 April 2026 at booth 306–308!
GRAZE defying cold, heat and vacuum 🧊🔥 After passing vibration and shock, our first payload just cleared TVAC testing. Designed, built and qualified in 4 months, now ready for Falcon 9 integration this Q4 🛰️
Swiss startup @PAVESpace raised $40M in seed funding to bring a new line of propulsion systems and in-space capabilities to orbit.
payloadspace.com/pave-space-…
Switzerland’s PAVE Space has raised $40 million in seed funding to accelerate development of its LYOBA heavy-lift kick stage.
europeanspaceflight.com/swit…
Switzerland’s PAVE Space has raised $40 million in seed funding to accelerate development of its LYOBA heavy-lift kick stage.
europeanspaceflight.com/swit…
A Swiss startup has just raised a $40m Seed to develop a new generation of spacecraft!
@PAVESpace is developing spacecraft capable of moving satellites between orbits in under 24 hours.
Today satellites take 6-12 months to reach their target orbit using onboard propulsion.
PAVE is building orbital transfer vehicles (OTVs) that can move satellites from low Earth orbit to their final operational orbit in less than 24 hours.
And today it has announced raising a $40m seed led by @VisionariesVC (Marton Sarkadi Nagy) and @creandum.
The company also recently opened a dedicated propulsion test facility where PAVE will conduct its first rocket engine firings later this year, and in October the company will have its first in-space demonstration mission!
LETS GO - Swiss tech is flying right now, and it's amazing to see European investors betting big on space tech.
We just raised $40M to fix space logistics 🚀 Getting satellites to final orbit still takes 6–12 months. We're building orbital transfer vehicles to do it in under24h. We are building logistics backbone of the space economy. More in @Bloomberg@Siftedeu 👇