Ikirere

About Ikirere

Building the Infrastructure for
Autonomous Space Systems

Ikirere is a research and engineering company building mission software, orbital intelligence, autonomous systems and future spacecraft infrastructure.

Mission

Space Operations Are Becoming a Systems Problem

Spacecraft are becoming more capable, fleets are becoming larger and the orbital environment is becoming more complex.

Engineering, orbital awareness and mission operations are still often handled across disconnected systems.

Ikirere is building a common architecture across those layers.

What We Are Building

One Technical Foundation

IkirereSim

Mission engineering, digital twin and spacecraft simulation.

IkirereOrbit

Space domain awareness, orbital intelligence and conjunction analysis.

IkirereMesh

Autonomous decision-making, coordination and fleet operations.

Spacecraft Systems

The physical infrastructure these systems are designed to support and ultimately operate.

These are not separate ambitions. They are parts of one operating architecture for space systems.

Vision

Autonomous Multipurpose Orbital Infrastructure

Ikirere is building toward a coordinated fleet of multipurpose spacecraft that can provide capability across telecommunications, Earth observation and security. Customers access the capability they need without taking on the full burden of designing, launching and operating dedicated spacecraft.

Telecommunications

Voice communications. Data and broadband connectivity. Coverage for areas where terrestrial infrastructure is limited or uneconomic.

Earth Observation

Agricultural and crop intelligence. Environmental and climate monitoring. Infrastructure and road mapping. Logistics and geographic intelligence.

Security & Defense

Persistent monitoring. Situational awareness. Strategic and sovereign space capability.

Philosophy

Build. Validate. Operate.

Ikirere works from physics, engineering constraints and real operational requirements. We build systems that can be tested, measured and progressively trusted with more responsibility.

Physics First

Systems must remain grounded in the physical environment in which spacecraft operate.

Operationally Useful

A technically impressive feature that does not improve a real mission is not enough.

Autonomy With Control

Autonomous systems must operate within clear safety and mission constraints.

Long-Term Architecture

Every layer should strengthen the infrastructure required for larger spacecraft fleets and more complex missions.

Team

The Founding Team

Jason Quist
JQ

Jason Quist

Founder & CEO

Software engineer and applied AI/autonomous-systems builder with experience across software engineering, reinforcement learning, multi-agent systems, simulation and orbital intelligence. Jason leads Ikirere’s software architecture, autonomous systems and product engineering.

Mayank Jain Banda Mutha
MM

Mayank Jain Banda Mutha

Co-Founder & CTO

Aerospace engineer with industry experience at Dhruva Space and Cosmoserve Space across spacecraft engineering, mission systems and hardware development. Mayank leads spacecraft architecture, flight systems and hardware engineering.

Long Term

Built for the Long Term

Ikirere is building the systems required to engineer, understand and operate increasingly autonomous spacecraft.

The ambition is not a single software product or a single satellite.

It is infrastructure.