Telemetry Today's Key 2025 Aero/Space Trends

Are you keeping an eye on these Aero/Space trends? Here are the sectors we believe will be key in 2025 and the companies helping shape them:

🤖 AI & Autonomous Systems - Leveraging AI to enable autonomous flight, optimize operations, and enhance security across aerospace and defense.

Shield AI: Develops AI pilots for autonomous military drones and fighter jets.

FlyPix.AI: Analyzes satellite/radar data for orbital object detection and traffic management.

Ultraview AI : Uses AI-powered drones for automated aircraft inspections and damage analysis.

Slingshot Aerospace: Detects anomalies in satellite behavior through AI for space security.

True Anomaly: Builds autonomous orbital vehicles for Space Force rendezvous missions.

🌿 Sustainable Aviation Tech - Advancing zero-emission flight via electric/hybrid propulsion, eVTOLs, and Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF).

Archer: Developing Midnight eVTOL air taxis for late 2025.

Joby Aviation: Targets 2025 launch of eVTOL air taxis in Dubai, NYC, and LA.

ZeroAvia: Creates hydrogen-electric engines for 9-80 seat aircraft.

BETA TECHNOLOGIES: Testing eCTOL electric cargo planes for FAA certification.

SkyNRG: Produces SAF from waste/oils under EU and U.S. mandates.

🏗️ In-Space Logistics - Building orbital infrastructure for refueling, manufacturing, and debris removal.

Varda Space Industries: Produces high-value materials (Ex. fiber optics) in orbit.

ThinkOrbital: Designs robotic-assembled hubs for in orbit construction/repairs.

Gravitics Inc: Builds modular space station components like StarMax for Axiom Space.

Orbit Fab: Offers hydrazine refueling services for GEO satellites.

🛰️ Mega Constellations - Massive low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite networks delivering global broadband, Earth observation, and IoT connectivity

Amazon Project Kuiper: Amazon’s 3,236-satellite LEO broadband network

ICEYE: Operates 30+ SAR satellites for day/night Earth monitoring

Eutelsat OneWeb: 648-satellite constellation providing global internet, expanding defense/government partnerships.

Starlink (SpaceX): SpaceX’s 6,900+ constellation dominating global broadband coverage.