Rendezvous Robotics is developing reconfigurable space infrastructure based on modular "tesserae" tiles that magnetically latch and self-reconfigure in orbit. The flat-packed tiles launch in dense stacks, are roughly the size of a dinner plate and an inch thick, and each contains a processor, sensors and a battery intended for low-cost mass manufacturing. The company uses autonomous swarm assembly and electromagnetism so tiles can find each other, dock, unlatch and rearrange via software commands. The technology was invented by Ariel Ekblaw during her time at MIT, incubated at the Aurelia Institute, and the company was formalized around Thanksgiving 2024; it is headquartered just outside Denver. Tile prototypes have flown on Blue Origin's New Shepard and on two missions aboard the International Space Station, which demonstrated autonomous docking, self-correction and reconfiguration. Rendezvous plans an ISS demo in early 2026, an external ISS mission in late 2026 or early 2027, and a subsequent mission to build a functional antenna aperture; it closed a $3M pre-seed to hire and advance the tech from demo to a full-scale orbital product.

Total raised

$3M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Sep 2025