Kubos
Space grade software
Acquired by Xplore in April 2022, together with its Major Tom mission-control software. Kubos operated in the software sector of the space industry, was headquartered in United States, was founded in 2014, raised $2.4M (Seed).
Kubos at a glance
| Status | Acquiredchecked July 2026Acquired by Xplore in April 2022, together with its Major Tom mission-control software. |
|---|---|
| Sector | Software |
| Headquarters | United States |
| Founded | 2014 |
| Stage | Seed |
| Disclosed funding | $2.4M |
| Team size | 1-10 |
| Website | kubos.com |
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Timeline & funding
- April 2022Company
Mission
Delivers end-to-end mission software: KubOS Linux for satellite flight and Major Tom for mission control.
Kubos, of Denton, Texas, tried to make satellite software work the way modern web infrastructure does. KubOS was an open-source Linux-based flight software framework meant to spare satellite teams from rebuilding the same plumbing on every spacecraft; Major Tom was its cloud counterpart, a subscription mission-control service for flying satellites from a browser.
The cloud half found users. By 2022 Major Tom was operating more than a dozen satellites on orbit for commercial and government customers. The open-source half never became a paying business, and in April 2022 Xplore, a Seattle-area space company, bought the assets; co-founder Tyler Browder and key staff went with them.
What survives is uneven. Major Tom lives on inside Xplore, its ground tooling still maintained. The original KubOS flight software repository has disappeared from GitHub, and the code persists only because a community group forked it for preservation.
Team
- Marshall Culpepper · Co-founder
- Tyler Browder · Co-founder
- Jesse Hamner · Co-founder
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