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Having completed HADES' Mission Definition Review (MDR), we're hiring a Safety & Reliability Engineer and a Quality Analyst to join Dark's team. HADES integrates cutting-edge technologies for in-orbit detection and tracking, rapid proximity operations, and controlled re-entry within a short mission timeframe. As Dark's first orbital demonstrator, HADES is a critical step toward enabling faster-than-ever orbital missions. As part of the team, your expertise in performing thorough RAMS assessments, regulatory compliance, and ensuring quality control processes will be key to successful development and mission operations. Join Dark in advancing orbital defense and developing cutting-edge technologies: https://lnkd.in/ekzPq64r

🇫🇷 Interceptor est un moyen "d’offrir un service qui n’existe pas encore dans l’industrie spatiale mondiale et c’est une opportunité pour la France". Avec ce "robot" capable de neutraliser satellites espions et débris en orbite basse, la start-up française Dark repousse les limites de l’innovation spatiale. Soutenue par l’Agence de l'innovation de défense, elle imagine une réponse audacieuse aux menaces croissantes en orbite, plaçant la France à l’avant-garde d’une souveraineté spatiale essentielle pour notre sécurité et nos infrastructures critiques. En savoir plus 👉 https://lnkd.in/ecw-vYgC #spatial #newspace #armée #défense #militaire #industrie #ingenierie #technologie #innovation #bitd Clyde Laheyne Guillaume Orvain GIFAS - Groupement des Industries Françaises Aéronautiques et Spatiales Long Journey Eurazeo Frst

HADES - Mission Definition Review Completed 🎖️ Dark has concluded the Mission Definition Review (MDR) for HADES, advancing us closer to the next-generation space defense technologies. As a privately funded initiative, HADES is designed to validate systems that enable precise detection, rapid maneuvering, and autonomous operations—key capabilities for addressing emerging threats in Low Earth Orbit. The module integrates cutting-edge capabilities, including: ◾ RISE: Our in-house operating system driving autonomous flight and verticalized space operations. ◾ Tactical Propulsion: Featuring primary engines and +18 bi-mode chemical thrusters, delivering unmatched 6DOF control for precision and agility in orbital engagements. ◾ Space Radar: Advanced sensor fusion enabling unparalleled object detection and tracking. ◾ Autonomous Flight Software: Including a default reentry mode into the “space cemetery,” ensuring seamless mission closure and readiness for unplanned operations. While HADES is self-contained, it serves as a testbed for Interceptor, our flagship defense platform. This mission is pivotal in quantifying technology transfer performance as we refine Interceptor’s capabilities. 🚀 Join the mission: Explore opportunities to contribute to the future of orbital defense: https://lnkd.in/ejdzSJrq Congratulations to the team, and thank you to our partners for supporting this MDR 🦾

🚀Qualifying non-space grade components for short space missions 🚀 Our team just completed a radiation test campaign. The results confirm our system design for unplanned & short space defense missions. By qualifying non-space-grade components to enable the use of the robust MIL-STD-1553 protocol, we unlock a smarter path forward—achieving reliability without relying on high-cost, space-grade hardware. Key highlights: ◾ Costs Savings: Our approach will save up to half a million dollars per Interceptor mission. ◾ Resilience: Space-induced failure events were thoroughly identified and quantified on the MIL-STD-1553 terminals during the test campaign, paving the way for our mitigation and recovery strategies that enable highly-reliable space operations. Thanks to our partners TRAD, Tests & Radiations and UCLouvain - Université catholique de Louvain! This achievement showcases the ingenuity of our team in building our technological arsenal. Explore opportunities to join us: https://lnkd.in/ejdzSJrq

🚀Qualifying non-space grade components for short space missions 🚀 Our team just completed a radiation test campaign. The results confirm our system design for unplanned & short space defense missions. By qualifying non-space-grade components to enable the use of the robust MIL-STD-1553 protocol, we unlock a smarter path forward—achieving reliability without relying on high-cost, space-grade hardware. Key highlights: ◾ Costs Savings: Our approach will save up to half a million dollars per Interceptor mission. ◾ Resilience: Space-induced failure events were thoroughly identified and quantified on the MIL-STD-1553 terminals during the test campaign, paving the way for our mitigation and recovery strategies that enable highly-reliable space operations. Thanks to our partners TRAD, Tests & Radiations and UCLouvain - Université catholique de Louvain! This achievement showcases the ingenuity of our team in building our technological arsenal. Explore opportunities to join us: https://lnkd.in/ejdzSJrq

🚨Introducing Dark Referral Program 🚨 👥At Dark we believe that great people tend to know great people - so we’re making it easier than ever to connect great talent with our team - and get rewarded! Here’s how: 1️⃣ Sign-up: Submit your name in our form as the referrer. 2️⃣ Connect: Talk about us with great people around you and that’s it - we’ll handle the rest after they apply. 3️⃣ Get rewarded: Once your referral joins, your effort is celebrated. ✅No follow-ups. No extra steps. Just a streamlined way to share opportunities and be recognized for it. 🤝 Ready to get started? Simply visit https://lnkd.in/gCZP4y2K

I’m looking for someone to take on the many exciting and varied test campaigns for our orbital module, Hadès. These include ground static hot firing (in both atmospheric and vacuum conditions), thermal testing, radar testing in anechoic chambers, functional testing, and much more. You'll have the opportunity to engage in every aspect of testing: requirements identification, test site selection, organization, hardware selection, and operations during testing. It doesn’t get more hands-on than this. If you're excited by any or all of these challenges, apply below and join us on this journey! https://lnkd.in/eBYn-n8c

J’ai rendu visite à Dark hier et j’ai eu droit à une présentation passionnante de leurs travaux. Pour en savoir plus, lisez-moi dans Aerospatium.

🇫🇷 L’espace devient un enjeu stratégique majeur, et la start-up française Dark se positionne comme un acteur clé avec son étude Salazar, sélectionnée par l’Agence de l'innovation de défense (AID). Cette étude simule, grâce à des modèles numériques avancés, des missions de capture d’objets spatiaux dangereux en orbite basse (LEO). Une réponse concrète aux défis croissants de sécurité en orbite. En savoir plus 👉 https://lnkd.in/eNS8KpBc #industrie #newspace #spatial #salazar #armée #défense #innovation #technologie #leo Clyde Laheyne Guillaume Orvain Eurazeo Frst Kima Ventures

🇫🇷 Exciting news!! 🇫🇷 Dark has been selected by l’Agence de l'innovation de défense to study the interception of dangerous orbital objects. 🛰️ The goal is to simulate the interception of dangerous space objects. Salazar replicates all stages of the operation of Interceptor, the company’s first emergency system developed to capture hazardous objects in orbit. 🚀 Developed internally, the Salazar simulation coordinates various digital models that retrace the operational sequence of Interceptor, from the ground preparation phase to interception, capture, and return of the object from orbit. 🌍 Salazar not only provides future users with a vision of potential outcomes but also allows the adaptation of future technologies based on this feedback. Based on the orbital parameters of a target, Dark proposes an optimized interception scenario, integrating mission strategy, performance, and timing. Join the team building the future of Space Defense here: https://lnkd.in/ejdzSJrq Press release below ⬇️ Frst, Eurazeo, Long Journey, Kima Ventures, CNES, DGA - Direction générale de l'armement, Présidence de la République