THE ORBITAL LAUNCH
AIR CANNON

Solving the Tyranny of the Rocket Equation.

The Problem

2.5%

of total liftoff mass reaches orbit

The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation

To increase payload, rockets have traditionally added more fuel. But this increases total system weight — making the problem worse, not better.

Payload is Severely Restricted

Only 2.5% of total liftoff mass actually reaches orbit. The rest is vehicle and propellant.

Massive Fuel Usage for Liftoff

10–20 tons of fuel are expended per second during initial liftoff just to escape Earth's gravity well.

A True Scientific Breakthrough

The Orbital Launch
Air Cannon (OLAC)

A launcher that can safely boost anything into the air via our patented travelling wave technology — without burning a single drop of fuel at liftoff.

Solving the Rocket Equation

OLAC propels rockets via compressed air instead of fuel. Reaches ~3km altitude and Mach 2+ before engines ever ignite.

Payload Capacity Increases 50%+

Compared to other leading solutions that deliver only 2–5% gains (e.g. SpaceX's Mechazilla).

100% Clean & Sustainable

Solar-powered air compressors. Initial liftoff energy is recycled. Zero fuel burned during the launch assist phase.

200–400
metric tons of propellant saved per Starship flight
41%
reduction in launch costs
$1.69B
in global savings projected in year one

Scalability

BUILT TO SCALE

The OLAC Multiplex can be scaled to meet the needs of any launch provider — from pyrotechnics and weather systems to small-sats and full orbital rockets.

Market Timing

WHY NOW

206%

Orbital launches grew from 86 in 2015 to 263 in 2024 — a 206% increase.

Source: spacestatsonline.com
$1.8T

The Space Economy projected to reach $1.8 trillion by 2035, up from $630 billion in 2023.

Source: mckinsey.com

Progress

TRACTION

MVP Blueprint Complete

Initial engineering and design finalized, with prototype underway.

Defensible IP Secured

Protected by a global PCT patent covering USA, China, EU, and all major jurisdictions.

Go-to-Market Ecosystem

Actively engaging key academic and manufacturing partners including UBC, U of T, IBM, KPMG, and NRC Canada.

Now Open

INVESTMENTS

We are accepting investments — a chance to get in at the ground floor, right before lift-off.

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The Second Mission

SOL AI

Engineered for aerospace.

Sol is an omnicompetent AI assistant of Space Launch Technologies — built from the ground up to understand the language of orbital mechanics, aerospace engineering, and scientific reasoning.

We are building Sol to be the intelligence backbone of Space Launch Technologies — present at every layer of the company. From the dataroom to tracking mission milestones, briefing the team, translating complex aerospace data into clear, actionable intelligence, running mathematical simulations, and so much more.

Sol scales with the company as it scales from prototype to commercial launch operations. A living system that grows more capable with every milestone reached.

01

Mission Intelligence

Real-time synthesis of mission parameters, telemetry data, and flight history. Sol monitors milestones, flags anomalies, and surfaces the information our team needs in the background.

02

Engineering Reasoning

Orbital mechanics calculations, structural analysis queries, propulsion modelling. Sol is capable of communicating using the language of aerospace engineering at the level of a domain expert, trained on our specific engineering systems and documentation.

03

Dataroom Command

Using RAG, we have Sol analyse and retrieve all documents in our VDR. Some capabilities include synthesising investor materials, surface due diligence answers, or prepare briefings from our existing documentation.

04

Financial Modelling

Sol's finance agent works from our numbers and understands the unit economics of commercial launch. Board-ready outputs on demand. Revenue projections, burn analysis, scenario modelling.

05

Research & Synthesis

Competitive intelligence, regulatory landscape, launch market dynamics. Sol retrieves, reads, and synthesises external research and integrates it with our internal knowledge base to deliver actionable insight.

06

Workflow Automation

Drafting documents, scheduling, generating reports, routing tasks across the team. The automation agent handles the operational layer to have our engineers stay focused.