SpaceX just completed the largest IPO in history.
The new-space era is moving fast, but engineers still lose hours finding qualified, space-grade components. Zenode is starting to change that.
SpaceX just completed the largest IPO in history.
The cost of getting hardware to orbit has dropped by orders of magnitude over the past decade. What used to be the exclusive domain of Lockheed, Northrop, and Boeing has exploded into an industry of thousands of companies building real aerospace hardware.
The new-space era isn’t coming. It’s here. But one thing hasn’t changed: how those engineers find qualified parts.
Aerospace engineers still spend hundreds of hours every year manually crawling qualification PDFs across DLA, NASA, ESA, JAXA, and manufacturer rad-hard lines — each with its own format, its own part-numbering logic, and no shared search. Qualifying a component for a space design means triangulating across all of them. It has always been painful. The boom in aerospace companies just means more engineers doing it.
That’s the problem we decided to work on.
Starting this week, Zenode marks space-grade and military-grade components directly in search results. 🚀 means space-grade. ⚔️ means military-grade. Hover over any mark to see the source of the qualification — DLA, NASA, ESA, JAXA, or a manufacturer’s own rad-hard line — so you can decide whether to trust it for your design.
Powering the marks are: 332,000+ qualified part numbers pulled from every major authority, including 38,000+ marked space-grade.
This is marking only for now. Sorting and filtering by grade is still on its way. But if you’re an engineer who has spent time crawling certification PDFs, it’s a start.
The new-aerospace era deserves better tooling. We’re building it.
Try it: zenode.ai
