Fleet Space & Koloma Partner to Enhance Data-Driven Natural Hydrogen Exploration

Fleet Space, Australia’s leading space exploration company, and Koloma, an industry leader in technology-enabled natural hydrogen exploration, today announced a partnership to accelerate exploration and development of natural hydrogen resources worldwide. Leveraging Fleet Space’s end-to-end exploration platform powered by space and AI - ExoSphere - Koloma will generate real-time 3D subsurface imaging of prospective hydrogen-forming geological formations and opportunity zones on a global scale.

In the global energy landscape, natural hydrogen has emerged as an increasingly viable source of renewable, zero-carbon energy. As a pioneer shaping the development of the geologic hydrogen industry, Koloma has developed a data-driven exploration approach - combining advanced data analytics tools and proprietary data - to identify and commercialise hydrogen reserves. After demonstrating significant hydrogen reserves in the United States, Koloma aims to transform hydrogen into a primary energy resource by enabling large-scale hydrogen production and dispatchability.

“Koloma’s data-driven expertise in geologic hydrogen plus the real-time 3D imaging of Fleet Space’s ExoSphere platform will enhance the scale and speed of our exploration programs, while also furthering our commitment to environmental preservation,” said Dr. Tom Darrah, Koloma’s Chief Technology Officer. “This collaboration opens a powerful new chapter for Earth’s clean energy future and a bold step for hydrogen’s development as a scalable and sustainable energy source.”

Fleet Space’s end-to-end exploration platform - ExoSphere - integrates proprietary satellites in LEO, smart sensors, and AI to streamline the acquisition, processing, and integration of exploration datasets, delivering high-quality targeting insights in days while minimising environmental impact. This vertically integrated approach has rapidly advanced real-time exploration capabilities for the global mineral value chain while supporting the ESG and sustainability principles for industry leading mining companies across five continents. 

“Fleet Space joining forces with Koloma represents the kind of industry partnerships needed to address the urgent demand for clean energy alternatives,” said Co-Founder & CEO of Fleet Space, Flavia Tata Nardini. “ With the latest advances in hyper-scalable, data-driven, end-to-end exploration technologies powered by space and AI, leaders working to build the foundation for Earth’s energy transition will have the next-gen tools to accelerate their path to discovery, while minimising environmental impact.”

Building on the new capabilities and exploration results ExoSphere has helped to unlock for the global mining industry - Fleet Space closed a USD$100M Series D with a valuation of USD$525M in December, led by Teachers’ Venture Growth (TVG), the late-stage venture arm of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP). This investment will be used to expand ExoSphere as an end-to-end platform and drive new AI and space-enabled solutions to the most pressing challenges in mineral exploration. Through collaborations with Stanford University’s Mineral X and MIT Media Lab’s Space Exploration Initiative, Fleet Space is also helping to advance critical research at the intersection of space and climate innovation, driving new technology pathways to catalyse progress for a sustainable, decarbonised future on Earth.

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