{"id":97246,"title":"Kyten - The modern aerospace battery pack supplier","tagline":"Custom aerospace-grade battery pack factory","body":"Hey everyone, we’re [Cooper](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cooper-mcbride/) and [Lucas](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucasmaddox/) - cofounders of [Kyten Technologies](https://www.kytentech.com/)👋\n\n### **TL;DR**\n\nAmerican manufacturers are racing to build 100,000+ autonomous vehicles for the air, sea, and space. Every vehicle needs a custom, aerospace-grade battery pack, but the supply chain delivering them is holding programs back. We’re changing that.\n\nDuring our six years at **Starlink**, we put over 5,000 battery packs into space. Now, we’re bringing rapid development and volume production to the entire industry.\n\n**_Ask_:** We have capacity for a few pilot customers—if you know any sea, air, or space manufacturers, please send them our way at [lucas.maddox@kytentech.com](mailto:lucas.maddox@kytentech.com).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=97246\u0026key=user_uploads/2153211/dad68a31-f6b9-4416-b89a-88ec56504144)\n\n### 🐌 The aerospace supply chain is holding OEMs back\n\nEvery drone, submarine, and satellite needs a custom battery pack. But as demand grows into the tens of thousands per year, the supply chain is a generation behind:\n\n* **6-12 months** to design and qualify custom builds.\n* **6-12 months** to ramp to high volume production.\n* **At least 5x** the cost of vertically integrating the product itself.\n\nForced vertical integration results in slower programs, higher costs, and significant delivery risk.\n\n### 🛠️ Kyten builds aerospace battery packs fast and at high volume\n\nWe spent a combined eight years at **Starlink** and **Shield AI** driving down lead times and increasing production capacity of aerospace-grade battery packs. Kyten builds on this experience to deliver high volumes in weeks, not 12+ months:\n\n* **1 week** to design via adaptive architecture.\n* **1 week** to qualify via automated in-house testing.\n* **1 week** to volume production via software-defined manufacturing.\n* **1,000s of units/year** per product.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=97246\u0026key=user_uploads/2153211/0ec4b193-79f5-4f5d-ba72-6c8cd9bf1874)\n\nUnlike the legacy aerospace supply chain, Kyten thinks like a modern manufacturer. If you, or anybody you know, needs custom aerospace-grade battery packs, please reach out at [lucas.maddox@kytentech.com](mailto:lucas.maddox@kytentech.com) 🦅\n\n\u003chttps://youtu.be/xwCdkOi8HsM?si=ChUu-JEHP3Z6CRm5\u003e","slug":"PIU-kyten-the-modern-aerospace-battery-pack-supplier","created_at":"2026-01-28T22:03:08.669Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T00:27:14.046Z","total_vote_count":17,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PIU-kyten-the-modern-aerospace-battery-pack-supplier","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=97246\u0026key=user_uploads/2153211/dad68a31-f6b9-4416-b89a-88ec56504144","company":{"id":31120,"name":"Kyten Technologies","slug":"kyten-technologies","url":"https://kytentech.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/966b1340bdeb6a7d80ba3f1c34c89a62f57a4bff.png","batch":"Winter 2026","industry":"Industrials","tags":[],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/31120"}}