[ ABOUT · XE4 ]

We're building the infrastructure for humanity's future among the stars.

Xe4 is a space-systems company with a long horizon. Getting humanity to the stars is the work of generations - and it starts with making the space we already use safe, legible and open to everyone. That's where we begin. Photon, our first product, is step one.

2026
FOUNDED
Photon
FIRST PRODUCT
Orbit
WHERE WE START
The stars
WHERE WE'RE HEADED
[ OUR MISSION ]

Expand humanity into the stars - starting with the orbit beneath them.

We believe humanity's future is a spacefaring one - and that the companies who build the quiet infrastructure make that future possible. Not the flags and the headlines, but the software, the data and the systems that let more people do more in space, safely.

Every journey outward begins in low Earth orbit, and orbit is filling up fast. Tens of thousands of satellites are launching this decade. Keep it navigable and the door to everything beyond stays open; let it turn to a minefield of debris and we close that door on ourselves.

So we start here, with the least glamorous and most urgent problem: making orbit safe to operate in - for the two-person cubesat team and the national operator alike. It's the first rung of a very long ladder, and we intend to build the whole thing.

[ THE LONG ARC ]

One horizon, built one rung at a time

ORBIT keep it navigable · now CISLUNAR the next frontier THE STARS where we're headed

A statement of direction, not a delivery schedule. We're at the first waypoint - and everything we build is meant to carry forward.

[ OUR FIRST PRODUCT ]

Photon - collision avoidance, on autopilot

Photon is where Xe4's mission meets the day-to-day of running satellites. It ingests public tracking data, screens your fleet against the full catalog, ranks real threats with ML, and proposes the smallest maneuver that clears them - all as software, no ground stations, no overnight analysts.

It's in early access today, being shaped alongside real operators. The physics runs offline; the AI is conservative and traceable; and a human always makes the call. Safe orbit is the foundation everything else is built on - so it's what we built first.

Explore Photon →
WHAT PHOTON DOES
01
Ingest
Public catalogs and radar feeds fused into one live picture.
02
Analyze
Real-time screening plus ML ranking by probability of collision.
03
Alert
Only real threats escalate - to Slack, email, webhook or API.
04
Maneuver
A fuel-optimal burn you review and command in a couple of clicks.
[ HOW WE WORK ]

Principles we build by

Think in decades

We're building for a spacefaring future, not a quarter. Every product is a rung on a ladder that reaches far past it - so we build things meant to last and carry forward.

Humans stay in command

Our software does the analysis and proposes the action - a person always approves before anything happens. Automation that earns trust, and never hides its reasoning.

Space is for everyone

The frontier shouldn't belong only to those who can afford it. We build on open data and price for the fleet you fly, so the smallest mission gets the same footing as the largest.

Come build the first rung with us.

Whether you fly satellites today or want to help build what comes next, we'd like to hear from you. The ladder to the stars gets built by the people who show up early.