Every mission has its own vector. We build hardware for the ones headed somewhere new.
Odd Vectors designs and builds spaceflight hardware for missions from VLEO to GEO to the Moon and beyond.
Our expertise
Mechanisms: hold-down release, deployment and separation hardware.
Extreme environments: thermal and power hardware built to survive conditions like the lunar night.
Deployables: booms, antennas and arrays for small spacecraft.
Flight safety: launch inhibit and separation switches.
Our founder
Chris Esser has spent 15 years building flight and research hardware, from individual mechanisms to complete spacecraft.
As lead mechanical engineer on multiple flight missions, with hardware on 50+ spacecraft. He has developed hold-down release mechanisms, solar array drives, deployable antennas, and primary structures, all with 100% on-orbit success.
As principal systems engineer for multiple missions, he led the technical teams from kickoff through launch and on-orbit operations. He also led a CubeSat avionics product line serving commercial, science and defense missions.
He went on to lead a multidisciplinary team developing structures, mechanisms and propulsion for a 500 kg-class commercial lunar lander, and served as Director of Space Systems on a very low Earth orbit (VLEO) mission.
Get in touch
Questions about a mission or our hardware? Send us a note and we’ll get back to you.