US startup Reflect Orbital books two launches of Skyroot Aerospace
California-based startup Reflect Orbital has contracted Skyroot Aerospace for two dedicated rocket launches to deploy its orbital mirror satellites. These satellites aim to provide sunlight to specific locations on Earth at night for applications like search-and-rescue and solar energy generation.
Why it matters
This partnership highlights the growing commercial space sector and the increasing demand for dedicated launch capacity for specialized satellite infrastructure.
California startup Reflect Orbital , focused on developing space-enabled infrastructure to deliver sunlight at night to precise locations on earth, has booked two Skyroot Aerospace launches to deploy future spacecraft.
Dedicated launches such as these provide assured schedule and capacity and complement Reflect’s other planned launches from sites in the U.S., it said, announcing on Wednesday (October 14, 2026) purchase of two launches from the Hyderabad-based Skyroot.
“There’s a real launch capacity shortage right now. We’re excited to work with a new launch provider, Skyroot, to help ensure access to space,” Reflect Orbital co-founder and CEO Ben Nowack said.
Reflect builds and operates orbital mirrors to enable controlled lighting without ground infrastructure, to support a variety of customers and applications, from remote search-and-rescue operations to solar farms generating clean power. For these services to happen, the satellites must first get to space, it said.
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