Why Impulse Space Chose to Build on Sift
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At Sift, we’ve always believed that teams building complex machines need infrastructure that’s built for the job—especially when the stakes are this high. That’s why I’m excited to share that Impulse Space has chosen Sift as their observability platform for mission-critical telemetry.
Founded by former SpaceX propulsion CTO Tom Mueller, Impulse is building the next generation of in-space logistics. Their team is focused on delivering payloads efficiently and cost-effectively beyond low Earth orbit—and doing it with the kind of precision and ambition that defines the best in aerospace. They set a high bar technically and strategically, and the decision to build on Sift reflects both their standards and the trust they’ve placed in our platform. They’re exactly the kind of company we had in mind when we started building Sift.
Purpose-Built for Telemetry at Scale
Impulse is deploying Sift across their engineering workflows, allowing teams to work from a centralized source of truth and streamline their ability to review, analyze, and act on high-frequency mission data.
Here’s how Sift supports their mission:
- Scalable Infrastructure: Decoupled compute and storage allow Impulse to scale resources dynamically, efficiently handling high-frequency data surges from aerospace missions.
- Codifying Expertise to Detect Anomalies: Sift’s rules enables Impulse to codify nominal behavior, surfacing anomalies faster while embedding institutional knowledge into workflows.
- Centralized, Code-Free Data Insights: Quickly visualize telemetry and pinpoint root causes without writing code, streamlining anomaly resolution and data reports.
- Managing Hardware Data Complexities: Sift’s platform handles Impulse’s high-cardinality datasets, high-frequency sampling rates, and time-offset challenges with precision.
“Aerospace companies like Impulse have had to work around the limitations of traditional IT monitoring tools or invest heavily in building in-house systems, neither of which scales with the demands of modern machines.” -Karthik
An Engineering Team That Knows the Terrain
Part of what made this partnership click was shared experience. Our Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs)—many of whom worked on flight software at SpaceX—know the problems Impulse is solving because they’ve solved them before.
They’re not just supporting from the sidelines—they’re embedded with the team, helping scale data pipelines, codify anomalies, and build the machine that builds the machine. It’s a technical partnership that we would’ve wanted when we were in the field ourselves.
Learn more about Sift’s FDE team
Built for What’s Next in Space
This isn’t just about one partnership. It’s part of a bigger shift in how teams are building, testing, and operating complex systems. Legacy monitoring tools weren’t made for the data rates, edge cases, or precision today’s missions require.
More and more, teams like Impulse are choosing platforms that were designed for this reality—not retrofitted from another one.
We’ve seen that shift up close. In the past year alone, we’ve started working with some of the best engineering teams out there—Impulse Space, K2 Space, Astro Mechanica, and more. These teams are moving fast, solving hard problems, and pushing limits. Our job is to make sure the tools don’t get in their way.
—Karthik Gollapudi
CEO & Co-Founder, Sift
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