INTELLIGENCE

SOLO

AstroForge's spacecraft intelligence model designed to autonomously coordinate a spacecraft’s onboard functions.

INTELLIGENCE

SOLO

AstroForge's spacecraft intelligence model designed to autonomously coordinate a spacecraft’s onboard functions.

THE INTELLIGENCE LAYER

Solo is our spacecraft intelligence model, working on top of AstroForge's existing deterministic, physics-based flight software. It monitors the spacecraft’s state over time, detects off-nominal behavior, determines how to respond, and coordinates the appropriate onboard systems to act.

THE CHAIN

SENSE

Solo ingests information about the spacecraft and its systems, accessing far more data than could ever be downlinked to Earth. That gives it a fuller picture of what's happening onboard than any ground operator could have.

DECIDE

Solo sits above the spacecraft's existing systems as an intelligence layer, without replacing the physics-based software and deterministic algorithms underneath. It uses that fuller picture to make more informed decisions than a human operator could.

ACT

Solo flies the spacecraft without ground updates, completing its mission without a single command from Earth, and determines if any subsystem is in an off-nominal state. It coordinates the spacecraft's onboard functions in real time during flight.

FEATURES

CHEAPER, SIMPLER OPERATIONS

CHEAPER, SIMPLER OPERATIONS

Solo autonomously coordinates a spacecraft's onboard functions, flying the spacecraft and making decisions in real time without ground updates.

BUILT ON DETERMINISTIC FLIGHT SOFTWARE

BUILT ON DETERMINISTIC FLIGHT SOFTWARE

Solo works on top of AstroForge's existing deterministic, physics-based flight software. It doesn't replace the physics-based software and algorithms underneath; it sits above them as an intelligence layer.

Anomaly Detection & Resolution

Anomaly Detection & Resolution

Solo determines if any subsystem is in an off-nominal state, using its access to onboard data to identify and respond to problems in real time.

CROSS-SYSTEM REASONING

CROSS-SYSTEM REASONING

Solo ingests and processes far more information than could ever be downlinked to Earth. With access to much more data than any ground operator would have, it can make more informed decisions than a human operator could.

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FULL AUTONOMY

Spacecraft autonomy isn't new. NASA's Deep Space 1 demonstrated it decades ago, and OSIRIS-REx's final descent was autonomous. But that autonomy has always been limited to specific functions or mission phases, with humans still responsible for the mission and ready to intervene during anomalies. Solo moves that decision-making onboard.

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FULL AUTONOMY

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FULL AUTONOMY

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Built on Four Years of TESTING

AstroForge has assembled a team of mathematicians and physicists working on some of the hardest problems in autonomous deep-space navigation, backed by a world-class in-house testing operation - full-scale thermal testing, radio testing in an anechoic chamber, thruster hot-fire, and hardware-in-the-loop testing - generating the data needed to continually iterate on and improve Solo.

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Built on Four Years of TESTING

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Built on Four Years of TESTING

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BUILT FOR DEEP SPACE

The farther a spacecraft travels from Earth, the more it faces common constraints: limited comms, expensive ground stations, and the need for specialized mission operating teams. This becomes difficult to scale as the number of spacecraft operating in deep space increases. That’s why Solo moves decision making to the spacecraft itself.

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BUILT FOR DEEP SPACE

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BUILT FOR DEEP SPACE

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Removing the Cost of Dependence on Earth

Ground operations - which include time-on-dish, telemetry analysis, and commanding the spacecraft - account for nearly a third of AstroForge's overall mission cost.

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Removing the Cost of Dependence on Earth

Ground operations - which include time-on-dish, telemetry analysis, and commanding the spacecraft - account for nearly a third of AstroForge's overall mission cost.

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Removing the Cost of Dependence on Earth

Ground operations - which include time-on-dish, telemetry analysis, and commanding the spacecraft - account for nearly a third of AstroForge's overall mission cost.