The team that has built
every layer of the stack.
Player One Space is a space innovation company. We build the brain that goes on any satellite — and the propulsion that moves it. Two IP-protected products, and a portfolio that grows with each launch.
Satellites are blind and immobile.
That is the defining vulnerability of the space age. Fix both and you have the first satellite that can detect a threat, classify it, and manoeuvre to safety — autonomously.
Satellites cannot see threats
Ground-based space domain awareness takes 30 minutes to 6+ hours to flag a close approach — long after an adversarial satellite is already alongside. No satellite carries onboard intelligence to detect and alert on its own.
Satellites cannot afford to move
60% of CubeSats launch with zero propulsion, priced out of toxic, expensive options. A satellite that cannot manoeuvre is a sitting target — for proximity operations, debris, and deorbit mandates it cannot meet.
One company. Two products.
A growing portfolio.
We do not bet on a single product. We identify unsolved problems in space, build proprietary solutions, and own the IP. Plasma and Buddy are the first two — each fundable on its own, and together the foundation of a self-defending satellite no competitor can match today.
A sovereign capability,
built in Canada.
Canada has named space domain awareness a priority for strategic autonomy. Its satellites watch the Arctic and the North Atlantic first. We are a Vancouver company — the principal AI work is done here, by the founding team, and the IP stays in Canada. Allied program offices get the capability from a supplier inside their own borders.
Built by operators.
Dima Anoshin
Spacecraft hardware at Khrunichev (Proton/Angara) and LEO satellites at Amazon. 15+ years building data and AI platforms. PhD, Mechanical Engineering.
Jay Bowman
Inventor of the water-electrolysis micro-arcjet thruster. 12 international patents across advanced hardware and power electronics. Owns the technical architecture across both products and leads the propulsion track.
Umut Kızılyamaç
Spacecraft architecture, ADCS and electric propulsion across seven platforms and 21 satellite missions at Plan-S, alongside Dr. Umut Yıldız. Took an electric propulsion system from concept to product.
Vladimir Valv
Computer vision and autonomous systems — satellite and SAR imagery, pose estimation, and reinforcement learning for collision avoidance. Builds models that run on constrained edge hardware. Works with our CEO on the onboard perception stack: model training, quantization and edge deployment.
Sergey Kruchinin
25+ years in embedded and safety-critical software, including DO-178C certified avionics. Previously architected industrial robotics deployed across Canada and the USA. Owns the propulsion controller linking the autonomy engine to the thruster.
Anton Borisov
Environments supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic; previously Digital Domain and DNEG. Architects Hollywood-grade Unreal Engine worlds and synthetic data generation pipelines for machine-vision training, grounded in aerospace systems engineering.
Ksenia Menshik
Python and C/C++, computer vision and reinforcement learning. Works in Blender and Unreal Engine, and comes from a data analytics background. Supports the AI team on data pipelines, training runs and model evaluation.
Dr. Umut Yıldız
NASA / JPL researcher and Caltech postdoc. Chief Scientific Officer at Plan-S, where he and Umut Kızılyamaç delivered 21 satellite missions together. PhD Astrophysics, Leiden University.
Dr. Cyrus Neary
Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, working on AI systems for autonomy, robotics and control. Previously a postdoctoral researcher at Mila. PhD, UT Austin.
Dr. Manish Jugroot
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Royal Military College of Canada and Director of the RAPPEL Lab. Research spans plasmas, electric spacecraft propulsion and nanosatellites.
