True Anomaly

True Anomaly was started in August 2022 by four officers who had served together in the Air Force 4th Space Operations Squadron, Even Rogers, Kyle Zakrzewski, Daniel Brunski and Tom Nichols, and it describes itself as the only defense technology company working exclusively on space defense. The pitch rests on one number. Its spacecraft carry enough delta-v to chase a target that does not want to be caught, around 800 metres per second in the baseline build and up to 1,000 in the geosynchronous and cislunar versions, which is the difference between a real intercept and a scripted approach to a cooperative satellite. Capital has tracked the flight record closely. A $100 million Series B in December 2023 was followed by a $260 million Series C led by Accel in spring 2025 and a $650 million Series D in April 2026 co-led by Eclipse and Riot Ventures, taking total funding past $1 billion at a $2.2 billion valuation.

Jackal is the hardware. An ESPA Grande class autonomous orbital vehicle with a twenty thruster propulsion stack, it is payload agnostic and carries up to 50 kilograms and 200 watts in the standard configuration, rising to 200 kilograms and a kilowatt in the deep space builds with upgraded navigation and added thermal and radiation protection. Mosaic is the software, written in Elixir and sold as an operating system for space superiority. It covers mission planning and analysis, flight software, on-orbit operations, constellation management, space domain awareness and multi-domain battle management, and deploys standalone or as a full stack in classified, unclassified or air gapped environments.

Test and training is sold on its own. The Digital Range runs simulated engagements against virtual Jackals and scripted red and blue forces for tactics development and rehearsal, and the On-Orbit Range does the same with real spacecraft, flying threat behaviour against operational crews. The company runs mission control at Colorado Springs alongside manufacturing at Centennial and a 90,000 square foot campus opened at Long Beach, California in 2025, with headcount near 300 and a stated plan to double it.

The flight record has been public and uneven, which the founders treat as the point. A first mission in March 2024 put two vehicles in orbit but never established reliable communications, and layoffs followed that spring. A second flight the following December worked, a third launched in May 2026, and across June and July 2026 the company flew VICTUS HAZE, a Space Systems Command tactically responsive mission in which a Jackal acquired, approached, circumnavigated and imaged a Rocket Lab target inside 61 hours against a 72 hour requirement, then re-engaged after the target maneuvered to evade. Other work includes a $17.4 million Space Force space domain awareness contract, a place on the Andromeda multiple award vehicle that will replace the geosynchronous surveillance constellation, selection for space based interceptor development under Golden Dome, and Mosaic supplying target pairing to the Kronos battle management effort.