# Aalyria

> Aalyria builds software that predicts and orchestrates changing communications links across satellites, aircraft, ships and ground systems, plus laser terminals that create high-capacity links through the atmosphere. Its Spacetime platform emerged from Alphabet's Loon work; its Tightbeam hardware targets customers whose networks must stay connected while their equipment moves.

- **Founded:** 2021
- **Headquarters:** Livermore, United States
- **Founders:** Chris Taylor (Co-founder and former CEO), Brian Barritt (Co-founder and CEO)
- **Products:** Spacetime, Tightbeam, DTN Network Operations Centre
- **Notable:** Spacetime's predecessor orchestrated Google's Loon network in production for three years; Aalyria cites more than 2 million hours of unattended orchestration., Aalyria reported a sustained 100 Gbps optical link over 65 km between Northern California mountaintops in 2025., Aalyria reports ground-to-air Tightbeam demonstrations approaching 200 km.

## Products & services

- **Spacetime** — Managed network orchestration platform that models moving assets, predicts link performance, schedules directional links and routes traffic through changing multi-domain networks; offers documented APIs and open-source interface definitions.
- **Tightbeam** — Fixed and gimballed free-space optical terminals for high-capacity atmospheric links; current land and air terminals are advertised at up to 100 Gbps, with sea and space applications in development.
- **DTN Network Operations Centre** — ESA-commissioned software project to provide delay/disruption-tolerant networking transit and management services for ground-station operators.

## Achievements

- Spacetime's predecessor orchestrated Google's Loon network in production for three years; Aalyria cites more than 2 million hours of unattended orchestration.
- Aalyria reported a sustained 100 Gbps optical link over 65 km between Northern California mountaintops in 2025.
- Aalyria reports ground-to-air Tightbeam demonstrations approaching 200 km.
- ESA reported a Spacetime demonstration modeling a mesh of more than 630 satellites.
- NASA awarded a $393,004 2024 study contract for network orchestration and management.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — ESA awarded Aalyria a contract to develop a delay/disruption-tolerant networking operations center.
- **2026-07** — Co-founder Brian Barritt succeeded Chris Taylor as CEO.
- **2026-06** — NASA said it would work with Aalyria to demonstrate enterprise service operations for the PExT mission.
- **2026-05** — SpinLaunch announced an agreement to integrate Spacetime into its Meridian constellation architecture.
- **2026-02** — Aalyria announced a $100 million Series B at a $1.3 billion valuation.
- **2026-01** — Aalyria joined Airbus UpNext's SpaceRAN demonstrator.

## Links

- Website: https://www.aalyria.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aalyria/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/AalyriaTech
- GitHub: https://github.com/aalyria
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Aalyria

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Last updated: 2026-09-30