Space Domain Awareness
A bias for
Contested Awareness
In an era where space is increasingly contested, the significance of Space Domain Awareness cannot be overstated.
As the line between commercial and government space efforts becomes blurred, technologies that assist with autonomy, global navigation services, localized climate study and satellite anomaly detection & remediation are put at risk. The fact that Space Domain Awareness impacts all space users and is contributed to by all global partners effectively makes any analysis an integration problem. From real-time analysis of orbital trajectories, to understanding two-line element (TLE) constraints and data enrichment, effective space domain awareness requires international cooperation and information sharing. Governments, military organizations and commercial operators all have a role to play.
Conjunction and Risk Analysis
A BIAS for
deriving simplicity in complexity
Minimizing the risks of collisions, interference, and other potential threats is the cornerstone of any SDA program.
Data integration and anomaly detection are key components of near-Earth object (NEO) analysis and end-of-life tracking. These activities observe, catalog and anticipate changes in natural or end-of-life objects in the solar system that might cross paths with Earth, satellite constellations or spacecraft. AI-led anomaly detection and alerting across space objects — GNSS spoofing, rapid orbital change, orbital perturbation variance and indicators of compromise (IOCs) from cyber intrusion events — is essential to identifying unknown phenomena and analyzing conjunction risk.
Potential Aftermath: Kessler Event
Space Climate Analysis
a bias for
space weather analysis
A range of physical phenomena is associated with space weather, from geomagnetic storms that wreak havoc on communications to ionospheric disturbances and scintillation of satellite-to-ground radio and long-range radar signals, aurorae, and geomagnetically induced currents at Earth's surface.
Understanding space weather is critical to any sustained operations in space; high radiation output (e-p flux) can wreak havoc with sensitive electronics, geomagnetic anomalies can cause induced collisions through sudden orbital change, and large-scale terrestrial communications blackouts can be traced to ionospheric bending. Space weather monitoring — heliophysics, magnetic storm tracking, and the interaction of interplanetary magnetic fields with critical infrastructure — is a logical component of a sustainable space ecosystem.
Solar Abstract
extra terram thinking
A bias for
exploration
Exploration beyond Earth cannot inherit Earth’s assumptions
Analytic packages for scientists, astronauts and future colonists cannot carry terrestrial assumptions with them: satellites can serve as fixed reference positions with a known ephemeris to provide coordinate mapping and route guidance no matter the planetary body. Lunar agents require accurate space weather and electromagnetic readings, alerting and forecasting to maintain a successful presence on the lunar surface. Mars, with its thin atmosphere, offers limited protection from cosmic radiation and electromagnetic interference; countering that requires a common analytics and alerting model that provides consistency, safety alerting and prediction.
Lunar Mapping and Route Guidance