Acquisition
Jan 2026Turion acquired Los Angeles-based Tychee Research Group to integrate its Tychee Mission Planning Library into STARFIRE; financial terms were undisclosed. Tychee founder Rob Brady became Turion Chief Product Officer.
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Overview
Turion Space is a privately held space-infrastructure and defense/aerospace company founded in 2021. It builds and operates maneuverable spacecraft, payloads, and mission software for space-domain awareness, national-security operations, orbital logistics, and longer-term in-space resource utilization.
Primary product
The primary product platform is the DROID family of maneuverable satellites, paired with STARFIRE mission software for mission planning, tasking, command and control, autonomous operations, and space-domain-awareness imagery. Turion also markets DROID Alpha spacecraft buses and payload-hosting/remote-sensing capabilities.
Founded
2021
Headquarters
Irvine, California, United States
Team size
200+ employees (company-reported in 2026)
Industry
Aerospace and defense / defense and space manufacturing
Sub-industry