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Custom Aerospace-Grade Battery Packs

Turn-key design, qualification, and manufacturing for aerospace programs.
Move fast and scale production without your battery pack becoming a liability.

Kyten aerospace-grade battery packs

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Contact us if you need custom aerospace-grade battery packs. We rapidly design, qualify, and manufacture battery packs for use in the following commercial and defense industries:

  • Manned and Unmanned Aircraft
  • Space (Launch Vehicles and Spacecraft)
  • Surface and Subsea Marine Vessels
  • Ground Vehicles
Modern Tier 1
Supplier built for rapid, high-rate production cycles
Expert
Team with >8 years at SpaceX, Shield AI, and Tesla
6,000+
Battery packs deployed to low earth orbit at SpaceX

Our Thesis

Industry Demands Speed and Scale

American vehicle manufacturers are building hundreds of thousands of vehicles in the air, sea, and space. But they face an existential risk: a legacy supply chain that can't keep up—especially battery packs.

Industry is Bottlenecked by the American Supply Chain

Every scaling aerospace, land, and maritime system needs a custom battery pack, and one defect can destroy an entire production facility. America needs hundreds of thousands of safe, aerospace-grade battery packs—and fast. Yet, our aerospace supply chain delivers low volumes of overpriced packs in years, not weeks.

Kyten is Built for Speed and Scale

At Starlink and Shield AI, we spent a combined eight years scaling aerospace electrical systems that power over half the satellites in orbit and thousands of drones on the battlefield. We founded Kyten to bring this capability to the entire aerospace industry so that manufacturers can move fast without their energy systems holding them back.

The Founders

Expertise in rapid development and manufacturing cycles is built in the trenches. Four years ago, the founders began working together at SpaceX, where they helped produce and deploy more than 6,000 battery packs to low earth orbit. Combined with experience at Shield AI and Tesla, they've played a key role in America's most successful high-rate aerospace and automotive design cycles.

Cooper McBride

Cooper McBride

Co-Founder, CEO

In the span of six years, Cooper went from an intern at Tesla to building and leading 30+ person engineering teams at SpaceX and Shield AI. His teams...

Lucas Maddox

Lucas Maddox

Co-Founder

For nearly three years at Starlink, Lucas owned some of the program's most difficult and urgent test and manufacturing challenges. Before SpaceX, Luca...

FAQ

Any configuration. We will design, test, and manufacture your vehicle's battery pack to your specification.

Cell & Pack Structure

  • Fully custom pack geometry
  • All cell chemistries and form factors
  • Any pack structure material
  • Wire bonded, spot or laser welded cell-to-bus interconnects

Battery Management & Safety

  • Onboard microcontroller
  • Integrated BMS with customer-selected communication protocol
  • Resettable fusing
  • Thermal control system and sensing
  • Engineered transportation cases

We've eliminated the bottlenecks that slow legacy suppliers: rigid designs, outdated systems, and outsourced qualification.

Adaptive designCustom form factors are the default. We're one design iteration away from meeting any requirement at scale.

Software-defined test & manufacturingAutomated systems take battery packs from design to volume production in days, not months.

In-house qualificationWe're building automated qualification capabilities to cut months off the development schedule.

Ready to Get Started?

Contact us today to discuss your custom aerospace-grade battery pack requirements.