On Sept 26th at Swiss Aeropole, we announced our transition from the Gruyere Space Program to PAVE Space SA! 🚀 Our mission: in-orbit servicing. Thank you to the Etat de Vaud, Innovaud, and the Economic Promotion of Vaud (#SPEI) for their support! 🤝

First free-flying rocket hopper in Europe! 🚀 Our student team just completed 6 free flights in 2 days—no private company or public agency has done it before in Europe! 🔥💪 Flight data looks good, and we're ready to go higher! 🆙

Free-flight campaign complete! 🚀 Over 3 days, Colibri completed 8 #free #flights near Payerne Airport. ✈️ Starting with 35cm hops, we pushed up to 105m to test our systems. Despite higher risks and thanks to new safety procedures, Colibri is pristine! ✨

Excited to announce our nomination by Swissto12 SA for the International Vaud Enterprises Award as an emerging player in the #Swiss space industry. Thrilled to continue our journey with PAVE Space, pioneering space #mobility and in-orbit #servicing. 🛰️

Same team, new challenges! 💪 From building a #hopper to tackling space logistics, our journey keeps moving forward. Now, PAVE Space is growing! If you're ready to be part of the future, reach out. 🛰️

🚀 Meet the Top 10 nominees for the 2025 W.A. #devigier Awards! 💎Chosen from 200+ projects for their innovation, leadership & impact. 🏆 On June 18, they’ll pitch live in Solothurn - up to 5 will win CHF 120K! 📺 Watch live online at devigier.ch #SwissStartups

Meet Julie Böhning! Her startup PAVE Space is dubbed the “Space Handyman” for improving space mobility through orbital logistics by deploying autonomous, mobile spacecraft. #InOrbitServicing #Space #Innovation #Aerospace

🎉 Big smiles, big plans! Our 6 W.A. de Vigier Award winners are feeling the joy! 🏆 CHF 120 000 each to boost bold young founders early on. 🤩 We’re proud to support these visionary entrepreneurs as they build impactful companies out of 🇨🇭! Axmed PAVE Space

We’re developing Europe’s first heavy-class #kickstage: POYA 🚀 Delivering 4+ tons of #payload to GEO and beyond, we cut commissioning time from over 6 months to just 24 hours and extend mission lifespans by saving #satellite propellant. 🛰️ Stay tuned to learn more about POYA!

A critical subsystem of the kickstage we are developing is #propulsion 🚀 Our main engine will be restartable and require a reliable #ignition system: a torch igniter 🔥 Our team built a small-scale #teststand to test multiple igniter designs in record time! Stay tuned!

Our first #catalyst assembly has been #integrated!🔧 This prototype will primarily assess H₂O₂ decomposition performance for our kickstage propulsion system, while also giving us valuable hands-on experience with high-test peroxide. 💨 Stay tuned for test #updates 🔥

We successfully tested our #H2O2 catalyst assembly! We validated both decomposition performance and our small scale test stand. Plume is mostly water vapor and oxygen, so barely visible, but we got the expected chamber pressure and temperature! Next up: testing other variants! 🔥

Orbit raising in less than 24 hours 🚀 Our kickstage is designed to precisely deliver 4+ tons of payload to GEO and beyond. Using storable propellant and restartable main engine, we can deliver customers to very specific orbit with high accuracy 🛰️

We’ve achieved ignition of our torch igniter prototype for our main engine! 🔥 After the catalyst tests that we did recently, we’ve shift focused to our torch igniter prototype. It runs on HTP and RP-1, the same propellant we intend to use for our main engine! 🚀