SBSP · OPERATOR PROFILE · DATA AS OF 2026-06-10

Virtus Solis Technologies

Active SBSP Private HQ: Michigan, United States Founded 2019

Michigan SBSP developer founded by an ex-SpaceX Raptor engineer, pursuing robot-assembled modular microwave power satellites in Molniya orbits with an Orbital Composites manufacturing partnership. Grant-funded and thinly capitalized relative to ambition; a $1.92M DOE ARPA-E award (Jan 2025) funds a 2026 wireless power transfer demonstration.

38.5

ARI Composite

Very High Risk

#25 of 30

Peer Rank

Infrastructure cohort

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Total Launches

No flights tracked

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Estimated valuation

Not disclosed

FINANCIAL HEALTH

38.5

ARI composite · Very High Risk

Peer rank#25 of 30

Peer groupInfrastructure

Data coverage82%

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SECTOR POSITION

Primary sectorSBSP

Rank within sector#25 of 30

Tracked peers30

REGISTRY DATA

Legal nameVirtus Solis Technologies, Inc.

OwnershipPrivate

HeadquartersMichigan, United States

CountryUS

Founded2019

FounderJohn Bucknell

CEOJohn Bucknell

AliasesVirtus Solis Technologies, Virtus Solis

Key programsModular microwave power satellites (Molniya orbits), ARPA-E wireless power transfer demo (2026)

Gov customersDOE (ARPA-E)

Last fundingARPA-E award, $1.92M (Jan 2025); disclosed private funding minimal

IPO statusPrivate

Source: space_company_registry.json · Operator homepage → · Company newsroom documents the $1.92M ARPA-E award (Jan 2025) and CASSIOPeiA-class modular architecture.

METHODOLOGY

Launch history and subsystem outcomes aggregate from AstraVeris's launch_events table with Wilson 95% lower bounds on success rates. ARI scores come from the 11-factor composite (/finance/methodology/). Constellation counts derive from the live CelesTrak/GCAT object catalog. Gov contracts from USAspending.gov awards; private deals from deduplicated pipeline deal extraction. Absence of a row means "not tracked" — we never fabricate. See /methodology/ for the full data model and /data-licensing/ for licensing terms.

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