The Florida footwear company Syntilay aims to design a shoe in space by mid- to late 2026, showcasing some new technology and blazing a trail for others to follow.
Created: 2025-08-09
Updated: 2025-09-06
"We've heard about making new materials in space and stuff like that, but the average consumer hasn't really benefited from a lot of these innovations yet," he added. "We can, I think, incentivize and increase the interest in this category and make it more practical for people, which is something that I think has been missing."
Syntilay — whose name is based on the word "scintillate" — already uses artificial intelligence (AI) and 3D printing to develop and produce its shoes here on Earth. So moving the design process to low Earth orbit (LEO) shouldn't be too much of a stretch, Weiss said.
The company is part of a commercial mission led by OrbitsEdge and Copernic Space that will take crypto mining and accessible AI-powered computing into the final frontier, via a satellite that will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in early 2026.
Syntilay will use AI agents on board that satellite to design a shoe in microgravity — something that has never been done before. That design will be beamed down to Earth, where it will be manufactured to create "an exclusive 3D-printed shoe collection, each pair tokenized and authenticated via the Copernic Space platform," OrbitsEdge and Copernic Space wrote in a statement.
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