Delta Infinite

DATE 2026.05.05 PHASE TRL-3 / TRL-4 SPRINT PRE-SEED // OPEN

Capture-First Space Infrastructure

Making uncontrolled mass controllable.

Foam-based pre-stabilization for non-cooperative orbital capture. The missing prerequisite for every downstream capture player in the ISAM value chain.

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The Problem

No one has captured a tumbling, non-cooperative object in orbit.

1,300

Derelict Objects in LEO

Dead rocket bodies and satellites totaling over 2,300 metric tons.

10–30°/s

Real Debris Tumble Rates

Every rigid-contact capture system tops out between 1 and 5°/s.

Demonstrated Solutions

No contactless detumbling has ever been demonstrated in orbit.

Capture is not one problem; it is a cascading chain of unsolved dependencies — characterization, pre-stabilization, universal capture, and post-capture stabilization. Every player downstream depends on the layer upstream. The chain breaks at pre-stabilization. We are building the missing prerequisite.

S.O.A.P.S. // Interactive

Approach. Deploy. Stabilize. Recover.

Live simulation of the full capture sequence. Step through detection, approach, foam deployment, stabilization, and controlled departure.

DELTA INFINITE · CAPTURE-FIRST SPACE INFRASTRUCTURE

SEQ

TECH OVERLAY

S.O.A.P.S. CAPTURE SEQUENCE · DELTA INFINITE · TRL-3 CONCEPT DEMONSTRATION · NON-PROPRIETARY

Live simulation. Click through the phases. Toggle tech overlay for engineering annotations.

Early Validation

We have already done this with rocks and Great Stuff.

ROCKSICLE DEMO · LOOP

Working chemistry beats illustrated claims. The rocksicle demo is our crude-but-credible proof-of-concept: hard foam expanding around irregular, tumbling, mass-asymmetric targets — exactly the operational regime where rigid grapples and adhesives fail. The space-environment version expands isotropically in vacuum and microgravity. The behavior is the same. The physics scale up.

Build

2025-11 · Terrestrial

Foam

Polyurethane (commercial)

Targets

Irregular rock, ~0.5–2 kg

Status

PoC executed · TRL-3

Market Position

Pre-stabilization is a vacant, structurally necessary layer in the ISAM value chain.

Characterization

LeoLabs · Slingshot · NorthStar — orbital sensing & SDA.

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Pre-Stabilization
← Delta Infinite. Vacant layer.
CURRENT SCOPE

Capture

Astroscale · ClearSpace · Starfish — rigid-contact systems.

Post-Capture Stabilization

Servicer attitude control once mechanically coupled.

Disposal / Relocation

Deorbit, graveyard, depot delivery, or asset re-use.

No competitor has demonstrated capture of a tumbling non-cooperative object in orbit.

Every rigid-contact system in flight depends on rotation matching or active target stabilization. Real debris tumbles 6–20× faster than current capture envelopes allow.

The pre-stabilization layer is licensed, not built — every downstream capture player needs it.

We are not building a better version of what competitors already offer. We are building the missing prerequisite they need to license.

Surface-independent foam expansion is the only approach that works on irregular, mass-asymmetric, uncharacterized targets.

Adhesives need clean surfaces. Grapples need fixtures. Nets need cooperative geometry. Foam doesn't care.

Timing

Three forces converging now.

Regulatory Acceleration

Government procurement is shifting from research to acquisition.

FCC 5-year deorbit rule in effect.
ORBITS Act funded through appropriations.
ESA Zero Debris Charter active across primes.

First Demonstrations

Two flagship missions will attempt non-cooperative capture at the rate ceiling.

ADRAS-J2 — FY2027 contact attempt.
ClearSpace-1 — 2028–2029 deorbit demo.
Success validates the market. Failure validates pre-stabilization.

Architectural Decomposition

The integrated capture mission is breaking into purchasable services.

SpaceWERX Orbital Prime segmented tracks.
COSMIC depot analysis — modular value chain.
Pre-stabilization is now a distinct line item.

Where We Are

Validated, not theoretical.

TRL-3 → TRL-4 Sprint

Vacuum chamber thermal cycling capability online. Foam dispensing module assembled and mounted.

Advanced Space Partnership

Signed trade study agreement. Orbital dynamics and mission integration support secured.

Physical Proof-of-Concept

Rocksicle demo executed. Foam capture of irregular tumbling targets demonstrated terrestrially.

Customer Pipeline

Active LOI conversations with named ADR / ISAM players. KMI conditional LOI in hand.

Non-Dilutive Pipeline

NSF SBIR Project Pitch in draft. DoD SBIR Phase I tracks under evaluation.

Accelerator Pipeline

Techstars Boulder + Techstars Space applications in progress. Orbit Fab precedent.

Founder

Singularly focused on solving the hardest problem in asteroid mining.

Founder · CEOKAI CAHLIL

Kai Cahlil

Founder & CEO · Delta Infinite

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13+ years leading hands-on R&D in asteroid mining and orbital debris tech.Continuous focus across one problem domain.
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6+ companies founded across eComm, SaaS, sustainability, and advanced materials.Proven operator before space.
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Bootstrapped R&D milestones — partnered with industry leaders.Advanced Space, ATTX.
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Self-taught, self-funded, mission-driven through 13 years of preparation.Singular conviction, validated by capital efficiency.

Pre-Seed // Open

$150K–$250K to convert promising material behavior into characterized, integration-ready data.

This is not a request to fund the future of asteroid mining. It is a request to fund the bounded, six-month TRL-4 validation campaign that produces the hard engineering data to prove the foam works as characterized — in vacuum, across operational thermal range, at the geometries and rotation rates real debris exhibits.

The deliverable is not a product. It is a defensible engineering record that converts “we believe” into “we measured.”

Use of Funds

Validation testing — vacuum chamber thermal cycling, expansion characterization

~40%

Materials characterization — foam chemistry, cure kinetics, mechanical properties

~25%

Founder operating room — six-month focused execution window

~20%

Partnership pre-flight alignment — Advanced Space, ADR / ISAM customer integration

~15%

The Ladder

From debris removal to asteroid mining infrastructure.

Pre-Stabilization Service

Foam-based detumbling licensed to capture primes. Bounded, fundable, near-term.

CURRENT

II.

Captured ADR Operations

End-to-end debris removal — capture, deorbit, contracted disposal.

III.

Captured ISAM / Depot Logistics

Re-positioning derelict mass into depots and recycling streams.

IV.

Asteroid Capture & Relocation

The endgame. Heritage-built on a decade of orbital capture flight history.

Debris removal is the wedge — not the destination. Each rung de-risks and credentials the next. The same foam that detumbles a derelict rocket body in LEO is the foam that captures a 30-meter asteroid in a heliocentric orbit a decade from now. We build heritage on debris and spend it on rocks.