SATED Space is an aerospace company developing innovative cooking technology for space, particularly a patented cooker that uses a spinning, heated rotor to create artificial gravity for safe, Earth-like cooking in microgravity, addressing astronaut health and morale by moving beyond pre-packaged meals. The second critical component of their ecosystem is the Downdraft Workstation, designed to solve a major safety hazard in microgravity: capturing food particulates that would otherwise become Foreign Object Debris (FOD) in environmental control systems.
With a ZeroG competition call for proposals and partner conferences just weeks away, SATED approached us to transform their functional engineering prototype into a flight-ready industrial design. The challenge was to respect the physics of their airflow channels while creating a housing that was ergonomic, intuitive, and visually appealing.
We executed a rapid design sprint, moving from research and sketches to final 3D assets in under 40 days. We delivered a refined industrial design and interface that SATED’s engineers could build, alongside high-fidelity visualizations showcasing the unit in three distinct scenarios: a ZeroG aircraft, an orbital station, and clean background product shots.
Later, we helped SATED with a PowerPoint presentation design, a new lunar habitat scene for their workstation, and an entire website design refresh reflecting the ambitions and maturity of the project.
