MERIDIAN

Meridian Industries — Aerospace · Atomics · Automata · Habitat

Tomorrow,deliveredon time.

We build the optimistic version of the future: rockets, reactors, robots and rooftops — all with round corners and a warranty.

Googie building and rocket under a Ben-Day sun
New for
2026!
Made in
Pasadena

§ 01 — The company

We were promised jetpacks.We started with the landing pad.

Meridian is 2,400 engineers, designers and machinists who think the mid-century got the vision right and the schedule wrong. We ship the future in quarters, not centuries — with the same confidence as a 1962 brochure and considerably better safety margins.

Four divisions share one workshop, one cafeteria and one rule: if it can't be explained on a single page with a drawing, it isn't finished yet.

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§ 02 — Four divisions

What
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make

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Atomic-age tabletop device

Aerospace

Orbital tugs, re-entry glass, and the quietest launch gantries on the coast.

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Atomics

Small modular reactors sized for a city block. Warm neighbours, cold cores.

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Automata

Helpful machines with round edges. Nothing that walks faster than you do.

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§ 03 — History

1962

Six decades of shipping the future a little early.

  1. 1962

    Founded in a Pasadena garage

    Three engineers, one lathe, and a lease on a former citrus warehouse.

  2. 1971

    First orbital tug delivered

    MT-1 hauls a weather satellite to geostationary orbit, on schedule, under budget.

  3. 1988

    Atomics division opens

    The first block-scale reactor lights 4,000 homes in Barstow.

  4. 2009

    Automata ships the Helper

    A gentle domestic robot that has never once fallen down the stairs.

  5. 2026

    Habitat breaks ground

    First cantilevered lunar residence under construction at Mare Serenitatis.

Engineers at an atomic-age control console
People whoread the manualand then wrote a better one.

§ 04 — Let's talk

Let's buildthe century.

Request the 2026 brochure — 48 pages, real paper, halftone throughout — or book a workshop tour.