Orbite Inc. and Interstellar Lab Partner to Advance Long-term Food Generation and Life-support Technologies at Mars Base Camp Analog in Saudi Arabia Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – Oct 27, 2025 — Orbite Inc., a leading spaceflight training and experiences company, today announced a strategic partnership with Interstellar Lab, a pioneer in AI-controlled greenhouses and bioregenerative life-support...
Orbite has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Astrolab, a U.S.-based space mobility company developing next-generation lunar and planetary rovers, to explore the possibility of future collaboration at Orbite’s Mars Base Camp analog site in Neom, Saudi Arabia. Both companies are interested in examining how Astrolab’s surface mobility systems could enhance analog mission simulations...
A Deep Dive into Our 2025 Training Destination At Orbite, every detail of our experiences is meticulously crafted to deliver something extraordinary. Last week, Orbite’s Head of Astronaut Training, Brie Rommes, and CEO, Jason Andrews, traveled to Curaçao for an onsite visit to the global home of our submersible and diving training operations. This visit...
At Orbite, we believe that the journey to becoming an astronaut is as exciting as the destination. We are thrilled to announce two major milestones in our journey to redefine space tourism: the completion of our $4 million series A funding round and a strategic partnership with Accor, a global leader in luxury hospitality. Funding...
Written by Jason Andrews and Nicolas Gaume, Co-Founders of Orbite FROM SEA TO SPACE Orbite (french for Orbit) was founded on July 11, 2019, exactly 24 hours before the start of the 2019 Transpac (Trans Pacific) ocean sailing race from Los Angeles to Hawaii. Jason was excitedly pacing the dock in San Pedro Harbor in...
April 2022 – AXIOM flight, Cape Canaveral Florida The AXIOM Mission 1 (Ax-1) is a twelve-day commercial human space mission onboard SpaceX Crew Dragon with 4 international crew that will dock with the International Space Station (ISS) (2 days to reach ISS, 8 days onboard ISS, and 2 days home via splashdown in the Atlantic...
By Brienna Rommes February marked the 60th anniversary of NASA Astronaut John Glenn’s Mercury space launch (Feb. 20, 1962), where he launched from Cape Canaveral Florida inside a tiny, one-person capsule (Friendship 7) and spent 4 hours and 55 minutes circling the planet 3-times before plunging into the beautiful waters near Turks and Caicos Islands....
By Brienna Rommes Weightlessness is the total absence of any sensation of weight or any external force on your body. You ‘float’ freely. “It’s a very deceiving and magical chaos” my trainee explains to me after her first weightless flight experience. “Your mind can’t seem to grasp what is happening and you instinctively try to...
By Brienna Rommes Orbite’s Chief Astronaut Instructor and Director of Astronaut Programs, Brienna Rommes, became the only American currently certified on two continents for both the French AirZeroG by Novespace weightlessness program and on the US ZeroG Corporation program on Friday February 25th, 2022. With her recent international microgravity instructor certification, Brienna has now performed...