Company

Inversion capsules turn space into a transportation layer for Earth.

• Our Story

Inversion was born in our garage in Los Angeles in 2021, when we realized that by creating low-cost re-entry vehicles, we could unlock brand new markets and harness the peculiarity of space. We took Inversion through Y Combinator in the summer of 2021, resulting in funding from amazing partners that enabled the rapid scaling up of the team and facilities. We are incredibly proud of the team, with each member demonstrating not only excellence in their technical domain, but also a "founder mentality" that is critical to Inversion's progress and future. We are building Inversion not because we love space, but because we believe that the advancement of humanity occurs when decades of technical improvements are uniquely packaged with a clear vision of the future. For Inversion, that means making space a transportation layer for Earth.

Our Team

A team focused on talent density.

Extreme ownership throughout the company.

Justin Fiaschetti

CEO

Before co-founding Inversion, Justin was a former propulsion engineer on Raptor at SpaceX and on Aeon at Relativity Space.

Austin Briggs

CTO

Before co-founding Inversion, Austin was an early employee at ABL Space Systems and the Responsible Engineer for the upper stage TCA.

Collin Corey

Head of Regulatory Licensing

Virgin Orbit’s former Director of Safety, Mission Assurance, and Launch Licensing, Collin holds 18 orbital rocket launch licenses and multi-national launch licenses. Collin leads Inversion's regulatory licensing efforts.

Rob Ashcom

Test Engineer

Rob comes from Frontier Aerospace as a Propulsion Test Engineer for hypergolic in-space engines after Northrop Grumman as a system engineer on launch vehicles.

Nick Bonafede

Structures Engineer

Nick comes from SpaceX where he worked on Starship structures. Nick is responsible for Ray’s structures and systems engineering.

Daniel Bradford

Development Engineer

Daniel was Inversion’s first employee and comes to Inversion from being an undergraduate researcher at New Mexico Tech in collaboration with Sandia National Labs and US Army Research Labs.

Johnson Chen

Propulsion Engineer

Johnson comes to Inversion with over 15 years of valve and fluid component development experience from SpaceX, Virgin Orbit, and Valcor.

Jack Christman

Avionics Engineer

Jack comes to Inversion with 6 years of space electronics experience coming from Virgin Orbit as a Senior Avionics Hardware Design Engineer on their LauncherOne rocket and Vector Launch on their Vector-R rocket.

Justin Fiaschetti

CEO

Austin Briggs

CTO

Collin Corey

Head of Regulatory Licensing

Rob Ashcom

Test Engineer

Before co-founding Inversion, Justin was a former propulsion engineer on Raptor at SpaceX and on Aeon at Relativity Space.

Before co-founding Inversion, Austin was an early employee at ABL Space Systems and the Responsible Engineer for the upper stage TCA.

Rob comes from Frontier Aerospace as a Propulsion Test Engineer for hypergolic in-space engines after Northrop Grumman as a system engineer on launch vehicles.

Nick Bonafede

Structures Engineer

Daniel Bradford

Development Engineer

Johnson Chen

Propulsion Engineer

Jack Christman

Avionics Engineer

Nick comes from SpaceX where he worked on Starship structures. Nick is responsible for Ray’s structures and systems engineering.

Daniel was Inversion’s first employee and comes to Inversion from being an undergraduate researcher at New Mexico Tech in collaboration with Sandia National Labs and US Army Research Labs.

Johnson comes to Inversion with over 15 years of valve and fluid component development experience from SpaceX, Virgin Orbit, and Valcor.

Ryan Delahunty

Aerodynamics Engineer

Dan Esparza

Machinist

Samuel Feibel

GNC Engineer

Grace Fischler

Aerodynamics Engineer

Ryan comes from the hypersonics company Stratolaunch where he worked as an Aerodynamics Engineer. At Inversion, Ryan is responsible for Conceptual aerodynamic design and analysis with a focus on computational methods. Ryan is a private pilot and also supports flight test operations.

Dan comes to Inversion with 10 years of precision manufacturing experience from Vanguard Electronics.

Sam comes from the world renowned Draper Labs where he was a GNC Analyst. At Inversion, Sam is responsible for architecting, developing and testing components and algorithms for Ray's ADCS, trajectory generation, and Arc development. Outside of work, Sam develops his own control algorithms for RC planes.

Grace holds a Master's in Engineering from Cornell in Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering where she was responsible for the aerodynamics for their Formula SAE team. Grace is responsible for modeling and simulation of Arc.

David Gamboa

Machinist

Ethan Heyns

Engineering Intern

Chase Holder

Propulsion Engineer

Connor Kelsay

Parachute Engineer

David comes from L3 Harris where he worked at a machinist. David is responsible for all things machining and manufacturing at Inversion.

Ethan Heyns is an Aerospace Engineering student at Georgia Tech and the Chief Engineer at the Yellow Jacket Space Program.

An Aerospace Engineer from UT Austin, Chase developed liquid rocket engines. At Inversion, Chase is responsible for the Ray propulsion fluid system and tanks.

An expert in parachute systems from Airborne Systems with a parachute on Mars, Connor leads design and manufacture of Ray and Arc’s parachute systems.

Meghna Kiran

Engineering Intern

Jake Klassen

Build & Test Specialist

Prak Krishnan

Engineering Intern

Ren Liao

GNC Engineer

Meghna is a mechanical and aerospace engineering student at USC where she's also the Operations and Avionics Structural Lead at USC Rocket Propulsion Lab.

Jake comes from Virgin Orbit and SpaceX where he built and tested Starship's Raptor engines, assembled Super Draco engines (Demo 2 -Crew 4), and Draco engines for both crewed and cargo missions. At Inversion, Jake is responsible for the build and testing of Ray. Jake is a US Army Veteran.

Prak is a Computer Engineering student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and is responsible for drivers and firmware on Inversion's Ray vehicle.

Ren is an industry veteran for GNC. His controls landed Falcon 9 at SpaceX, controlled Virgin Orbit’s rocket, and developed NASA JPL's Europa Clipper.

Navya Meka

Engineering Intern

Parker Miller

Avionics Engineer

Brendan Mitchell

MECHANISMS ENGINEER

Casey Sauer

Engineering Intern

Navya is an Aerospace Engineering student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she's also the Illinois Space Society's Spaceshot Project Manager.

Parker comes from MITRE where he worked on government RF systems. At Inversion, Parker is responsible for design, development, testing, and integration of the mixed-signal electronics and RF systems for Inversion's space vehicles.

Formerly at Project Kuiper and responsible for F9 stage separation and FH booster separation, Brendan is responsible for the development of structures and all mechanism systems on Inversion's capsules.

Casey is a mechanical engineering student at Northeastern University where he was the former Chief Mechanical Engineer at Northeastern Electric Racing FSAE team.

Austin Sennott

Propulsion Engineer

Sashreek Shankar

Engineering Intern

Austin comes from Virgin Orbit where he was responsible for engine development. At Inversion, Austin is responsible for CE-1, Ray’s De-Orbit engine, design, analysis, and manufacturing. In his free time, he develops amateur liquid rocket engines.

Sashreek is a Computer Engineering student from University of Michigan. There, he was the Embedded Software Subteam Lead for the Michigan Mars Rover team and Research Assistant for the Intelligent Robotics and Autonomy Lab.

• COMPANY TENETS
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Unrelenting
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