Created: 2020-05-03
Updated: 2024-02-29
Product/Service
- Classification
- Miscellaneous
- Category
- Space Situational Awareness (SSA)
In-Orbit Inspection
In-Space Situational Awareness
Hardware
- Fields
- In-Orbit Inspection
- Status
- Development, Launched
- First launch
- 2021
SCOUT is developing small, inexpensive satellites to perform in-space inspections of large, expensive satellites.
We enable operations where spacecraft detect, identify, and refine models for observed objects to gather deeper insight and enable autonomous operations. Our software will help SpaceCraft Observe and Understand Things around them (SCOUT).
**SCOUT-Sat **and Sentry-Sat will enable on-demand, on-site inspections for space assets.
- SCOUT-Sats are small satellites built for rendezvous & proximity ops (RPO) and inspections. Our SCOUT-Sat constellation will enable sustainable access to anything in GEO within 6 hours.
- Sentry-Sats will serve as “24-hour security cameras” for real-time surveillance and situational awareness.
- Our inspection services will be available in 2022, and regulatory approvals are in progress.
SCOUT will launch a SCOUT-Vision payload on Orbit Fab’s Tanker-001 Tenzing fuel depot, scheduled to ride to orbit aboard a Spaceflight Inc. Sherpa orbital transfer vehicle (OTV) on an upcoming SpaceX Falcon 9 mission later 2021. The hosted payload is a demonstration mission of SCOUT’s in-orbit inspection capability and the collaboration provides tangible evidence of Orbit Fab and SCOUT’s alignment and shared commitment to the satellite servicing ecosystem. Once on orbit, SCOUT-Vision will be available to inspect spacecraft in LEO SSO with operator consent, and SCOUT has already initiated conversations with a number of organizations that wish to access images of their spacecraft.
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