Two founders, one thesis.
Altaris is built by a small team with deep aerospace and robotics experience, focused on the infrastructure the Moon doesn't have yet.
Ethan leads Altaris's technical direction and systems architecture. Before co-founding Altaris, he led avionics systems integration for Blue Origin's Human Landing System lunar lander, following a deliberately broad engineering foundation built for systems-level work. It was at Blue Origin that he met his co-founder, Brendon — where shared conversations about process, culture, and decision-making convinced them the fastest path to changing the trajectory of human spaceflight was to build it themselves.
Brendon leads Altaris's operations and program strategy. His path combined an early cellular-infrastructure startup, a return to school for mechanical engineering and bioastronautics at CU Boulder, and a year and a half as an ISS Flight Controller at NASA's Johnson Space Center. At Blue Origin, he led thermal systems integration and mission architecture for the Human Landing System lunar lander, partnering with Ethan — his avionics counterpart — as integration lead on the program before the two co-founded Altaris together.