Background film: two spacecraft rendezvous in low Earth orbit.

THE OPERATING SYSTEM FOR COLLABORATIVE AUTONOMY

X

Decisions are moving onboard. Test, validate and trust them. Cooperative missions need spacecraft to negotiate and make go/no-go calls at machine speed, beyond the ground loop.

UPGRADE YOUR CONFIDENCE

Spacecraft are starting to decide for themselves. There is a need to test whether those decisions are safe before flight.

The next level inside X

X is growing a layer that keeps software improving after launch. The NextGen Twin validates a specific spacecraft against physics; in the Hybrid Loop, flight data from the real spacecraft flows back into the twin. Both are in development and open to co-development partners.

IN DEVELOPMENT · OPEN FOR EARLY ADOPTERS

Autonomous mission pilot

The decision flow: inside X, spacecraft from different vendors negotiate in a translated common protocol, and X then runs an independent check: a simulated proximity run of the approach they proposed, flown and verified before anything moves. A go or no-go verdict leaves the field, and only then does the manoeuvre execute in orbit.

    1. NEGOTIATION
    2. INDEPENDENT CHECK
  1. GO / NO-GO
  2. EXECUTE · IN ORBIT

How it fits together

TODAY

C

The ground's view

four products selling now, web based and multi-vendor

PILOTS

X

The spacecraft's view

translation layer, autonomy and safety testing with pilot users

NEXT

NextGen Twin

Your actual vehicle

its twin with autonomy added, then the Hybrid Loop with the real craft

THE GOAL

Autonomy switched on safely

proven before it is enabled in orbit

FOUNDATION

Our own orbital dynamics engine

measured against reality: 2.5% where the field accepts 10 to 20%

Cooperating partners

  • ESA
  • Telespazio, a Leonardo and Thales company
  • PIAP Space
  • Slovak Space Office
  • Astros Solutions
  • Ústav materiálov a mechaniky strojov, Slovenská akadémia vied
  • IM Space Technologies