Orbital Culture PBC

Orbital Culture PBC is engineering the biology of a multi-planetary civilization because a civilization cannot thrive tethered to its home world. Before humanity can build cities on the Moon or Mars, we must first grow life there: food, materials, and life support that scale with presence, not payload mass.

For decades, space settlement has treated biology as cargo. We pack life into boxes, ship it at extreme cost, and accept a future defined by Earth-dependency, mechanical fragility, and linear resupply economics. That model can support missions. It cannot support permanence.

Orbital Culture flips the premise: you don't ship civilization. You grow it. We treat biology as infrastructure: regenerative, autonomous, and compounding. Living systems adapt, multiply, self-repair, and turn local inputs into essential outputs, enabling a fundamentally different cost curve for off-world expansion.

Our core product is an autonomous, closed-loop biological factory, AI-supervised and designed to be ISRU-native from day one. Using what's available on the Moon and Mars, regolith, atmospheric CO₂/CO, water ice, and organic waste, we produce nutrient-dense biomass (food), biopolymers (materials), oxygen (life support), biofuels (energy), and processed nutrients (fertilizer). These are not one-off experiments; they are self-optimizing factories built for permanence.

The window for biological infrastructure is opening now: sustained lunar and Martian missions are becoming real, synthetic biology and AI are converging into scalable biomanufacturing, and launch costs, while improving, remain the bottleneck that will define winners. We're building the biological backbone for a multi-planetary society, starting on the Moon, scaling to Mars, and ultimately deploying networks of living industrial ecosystems beyond. As a Public Benefit Corporation, we're optimizing for a civilization timeline: sustainable, ethical expansion of life beyond Earth.