About VXB
The hardware that powers the space economy is mostly designed the way it was decades ago: manually and painstakingly.
The hardware that powers the space economy is mostly designed the way it was decades ago: manually and painstakingly.
Supply chains compound the problem, with companies often buying critical components from third parties at prices and timelines they don't control, built from materials that often lie in the hands of adversaries. The result is an industry that cannot iterate at the speed that would best serve satellite operators, manufacturers fighting for razor-thin margins in an oversupplied hardware market, or defense planners who need systems adapted to new threats in months, not decades.
Supply chains compound the problem, with companies often buying critical components from third parties at prices and timelines they don't control, built from materials that often lie in the hands of adversaries. The result is an industry that cannot iterate at the speed that would best serve satellite operators, manufacturers fighting for razor-thin margins in an oversupplied hardware market, or defense planners who need systems adapted to new threats in months, not decades.
Supply chains compound the problem, with companies often buying critical components from third parties at prices and timelines they don't control, built from materials that often lie in the hands of adversaries. The result is an industry that cannot iterate at the speed that would best serve satellite operators, manufacturers fighting for razor-thin margins in an oversupplied hardware market, or defense planners who need systems adapted to new threats in months, not decades.
The bottleneck is the design process itself.
The bottleneck is the design process itself.
Our Story
Our Story
Our Story
VXB exists because its founder ran into that wall with only $600 in his pocket.
VXB exists because its founder ran into that wall with only $600 in his pocket.
Alexander Ryan was raised by entrepreneurs and always meant to build a company of his own; a doctorate was how he found the problem worth building it around. He left a career managing billion-dollar defense infrastructure projects to pursue a Ph.D. in plasma propulsion, where he was told there was no budget to build a propulsion system, just a meager student allowance to work on something that typically costs, at minimum, hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Alexander Ryan was raised by entrepreneurs and always meant to build a company of his own; a doctorate was how he found the problem worth building it around. He left a career managing billion-dollar defense infrastructure projects to pursue a Ph.D. in plasma propulsion, where he was told there was no budget to build a propulsion system, just a meager student allowance to work on something that typically costs, at minimum, hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Alexander Ryan was raised by entrepreneurs and always meant to build a company of his own; a doctorate was how he found the problem worth building it around. He left a career managing billion-dollar defense infrastructure projects to pursue a Ph.D. in plasma propulsion, where he was told there was no budget to build a propulsion system, just a meager student allowance to work on something that typically costs, at minimum, hundreds of thousands of dollars.
VXB's CEO and Co-Founder, Alexander Ryan, assembling the company's first generatively designed Hall-effect Thruster.
VXB's CEO and Co-Founder, Alexander Ryan, assembling the company's first generatively designed Hall-effect Thruster.
VXB's CEO and Co-Founder, Alexander Ryan, assembling the company's first generatively designed Hall-effect Thruster.
What he did have was access to a supercomputer and a hunch that machine learning could crack the optimization problems that make components so hard to design.
What he did have was access to a supercomputer and a hunch that machine learning could crack the optimization problems that make components so hard to design.
What he did have was access to a supercomputer and a hunch that machine learning could crack the optimization problems that make components so hard to design.
So, he built a different kind of tool. Scraping databases of off-the-shelf parts and materials and modeling their manufacturability, he wrote an algorithm that designed a working propulsion system in two days. Within a month of the parts arriving, it was firing in a vacuum chamber.
So, he built a different kind of tool. Scraping databases of off-the-shelf parts and materials and modeling their manufacturability, he wrote an algorithm that designed a working propulsion system in two days. Within a month of the parts arriving, it was firing in a vacuum chamber.
So, he built a different kind of tool. Scraping databases of off-the-shelf parts and materials and modeling their manufacturability, he wrote an algorithm that designed a working propulsion system in two days. Within a month of the parts arriving, it was firing in a vacuum chamber.
That instinct for solving hard aerospace problems with minimal resources became an obsession. Alex founded VXB inside a suburban Sydney shed and began building flight-grade Hall effect thrusters with his algorithms. At the stark realization that the software engine behind the hardware was the real business, VXB pivoted from selling thrusters to selling the platform that designed them.
That instinct for solving hard aerospace problems with minimal resources became an obsession. Alex founded VXB inside a suburban Sydney shed and began building flight-grade Hall effect thrusters with his algorithms. At the stark realization that the software engine behind the hardware was the real business, VXB pivoted from selling thrusters to selling the platform that designed them.
That instinct for solving hard aerospace problems with minimal resources became an obsession. Alex founded VXB inside a suburban Sydney shed and began building flight-grade Hall effect thrusters with his algorithms. At the stark realization that the software engine behind the hardware was the real business, VXB pivoted from selling thrusters to selling the platform that designed them.
Today, VXB’s is the first generative design platform in the market to pull the full matrix of engineering concerns into a single optimization loop. Where a traditional development cycle takes months to years, the platform produces validated, manufacturable designs in one to three days.
Today, VXB’s is the first generative design platform in the market to pull the full matrix of engineering concerns into a single optimization loop. Where a traditional development cycle takes months to years, the platform produces validated, manufacturable designs in one to three days.
Today, VXB’s is the first generative design platform in the market to pull the full matrix of engineering concerns into a single optimization loop. Where a traditional development cycle takes months to years, the platform produces validated, manufacturable designs in one to three days.
That future is already visible in VXB's past. A graduate student with a few hundred bucks and the right algorithm built in one month what takes companies years. VXB is the proof that the fastest way to accelerate our critical hardware is to redesign how we design.
That future is already visible in VXB's past. A graduate student with a few hundred bucks and the right algorithm built in one month what takes companies years. VXB is the proof that the fastest way to accelerate our critical hardware is to redesign how we design.
That future is already visible in VXB's past. A graduate student with a few hundred bucks and the right algorithm built in one month what takes companies years. VXB is the proof that the fastest way to accelerate our critical hardware is to redesign how we design.
Validation is Key
Validation is Key
Innovation without reliability has no place in space. VXB bridges the gap between radical generative design and aerospace-grade certainty by testing proprietary designs in our world-class facilities. We don't just generate the future, we validate it.
Innovation without reliability has no place in space. VXB bridges the gap between radical generative design and aerospace-grade certainty by testing proprietary designs in our world-class facilities. We don't just generate the future, we validate it.
Innovation without reliability has no place in space. VXB bridges the gap between radical generative design and aerospace-grade certainty by testing proprietary designs in our world-class facilities. We don't just generate the future, we validate it.