EraDrive

EraDrive builds onboard autonomy for spacecraft. Its Era-Core flight software covers autonomous rendezvous and proximity operations, alternative positioning, space domain awareness and automated collision avoidance. Era-Node is a low-SWaP module combining an HDR camera, processor and cross-link, and it includes Era-Core. Offboard products are Era-Forge, a cloud service for training and validating AI models, and Era-Cloud, a cloud adaptation of Era-Core for ground operations and data products. Era-Twin is a digital and robotic twin used for verification and validation.

Customers are civil, defense and commercial space missions that integrate EraDrive modules with new or existing satellites. The company reports a $13M U.S. Department of Defense award to provide Era-Node vision-based autonomy modules to the U.S. Space Force.

The company was spun out of the Stanford Space Rendezvous Lab. Its co-founders are Sumant Sharma (CEO), Justin Kruger (CTO) and Simone D'Amico (CSO). The website cites 5 heritage missions covering 12 satellites and a swarm mission flown with NASA. It also states that a timing demonstration aboard NASA Starling is planned for October 2026. Open roles are based in Palo Alto, in hybrid or on-site arrangements, and cover spacecraft electronics, flight software, embedded software, space systems and autonomy engineering.

Product: Era-Core flight autonomy software, Era-Node autonomy modules, and Era-Forge, Era-Cloud and Era-Twin offboard and validation tools for spacecraft.