CoolingSpacecraftPower ElectronicsHypersonicsFaster
Quantum
Qool
Thermal management needs innovation to keep up with the advanced spacecraft, hypersonic vehicles & power electronics of today and the future.
Class of 2026
ISS National Lab — Orbital Edge Accelerator
Amazon Devices Climate Tech Accelerator
The problem
Heat is the
limiting factor.
Thermal control in extreme environments has become the bottleneck for the next generation of satellites, landers, rovers, hypersonic rockets and aircraft.
In orbital space and at hypersonic speed, convection is impossible and conduction is severely constrained. Thermal radiation is the only viable mechanism for shedding waste heat.
As spacecraft and hypersonic vehicles get faster, more powerful and more compact, heat and power issues with radiators, leading edges, cold plates and enclosures become glaring failure modes.
Higher power means higher operating temperatures — performance loss, operational failures, shortened lifecycles, degradation and thermal breakdown. Millions of dollars in failed missions.
Without real innovation in manufacturing, these components simply will not sustainably handle more heat to meet demand.
There is something we can do about it
Efficiently and
sustainably.
Quantum Qool’s proprietary Ultrafast Laser Surface Structuring (ULSS) process enhances the emissivity & surface area of key thermal management components many times over — accelerating cooling by 100%+ by sculpting feature-enhancing nanostructures that radiate heat away fast.
The process removes bottlenecks of heat — “hot spots” — to optimise heat transfer flow. Spacecraft radiators and hypersonic leading edges are ready-made for it. No coatings, films or metamaterials with weeks-to-months lead times that break down in critical high-temperature environments.
via thermal radiation
power & heat management
novel & industrially applicable
treatment lead time
Target markets
Components that are
ready-made for ULSS.
Thermal Radiators
Satellite and lander radiators that must shed every watt by radiation alone.
Leading Edges
Hypersonic leading edges where stagnation heating peaks and coatings fail.
Nose Cones
Re-entry and hypersonic nose structures under sustained thermal load.
Electronic Enclosures
Power electronics and avionics enclosures running hotter and denser.
ULSS at industrial scale
The Q2 Laser
Station.
Patented ultrafast laser surface structuring, delivered on customised laser stations scaled for production lines. Leading-edge femtosecond performance with industrial reliability and integrated diffractive optics — a throughput never before seen commercially.
Precision
Laser-structure matter without generating heat — on novel materials and products from metals and ceramics to complex polymers.
Seamless
Eliminate time-consuming pre- & post-processing steps, reducing critical thermal surface treatment from weeks to hours.
Sustainable
Eliminate chemical processes that create environmental problems during machining, and minimise your waste stream.
Let's collaborate
Turn thermal limits into a competitive advantage.
Send us the component, the duty cycle and the environment. We will tell you what ULSS can do for its emissivity, its surface area and its heat rejection — in hours, not months.