HEO (High Earth Orbit Robotics)

HEO Inspect delivers essential insights to commercial, defence, and government agencies to help advance their understanding of their space asset and its environment - all in one place.

Created: 2020-08-08

Updated: 2025-09-06

Company - HEO (High Earth Orbit Robotics)

Founded
Country: 2016; Australia,UK,USA

Funding: $7.8M+

Website: https://www.heo-robotics.com/

Social

Product/Service - Inspect

Classification: Miscellaneous

Category: Space Situational Awareness (SSA)
In-Orbit Inspection

Fields: In-Orbit Inspection

Status: Active

First launch: 2020

HEO provides non-Earth imagery and analytics that enables commercial companies, governments, and defence to identify and understand the state, operation and behaviour of space objects and the orbital environment.

HEO Inspect is a resilient space architecture that combines software and space-based hardware for highly automated satellite-to-satellite imaging for every mission. We adopt a sustainable approach to solving today’s problems in space. Rather than launching our own hardware, we foster collaboration opportunities with companies to access existing space-based sensors during their downtime.

High Earth Orbit Robotics has used an Earth Observation satellite to image another spacecraft. Their software, combined with the Korean Kompsat-3 satellite provided millisecond accuracy to take the image from a distance of over 300 km. Their software was critical to compensate for the 10 km/s relative closing velocity between the Kompsat-3 and the ISS.

Holmes Imager

Holmes Imager is a telescopic space camera we developed and is designed to be hosted as a secondary payload on a spacecraft. Once launched, Holmes relies on the host spacecraft for ground communication, power, attitude control, GPS time, and telemetry for operation.

Holmes is the next-generation of space-to-space imagery. Holmes’ advanced optics will deliver higher-quality images, giving our customers more coverage and better insights.

Both Holmes and its host spacecraft are healthy and stable. Precision pointing in space is critical for non-Earth imaging. We are conducting the final fine attitude control checks before opening the aperture door for Holmes’ first pic, 2023-11-24.

HEO Announces Partnership with Impulse Space for Non-Earth Imaging Services, 2024-02-06.

Notes

Startups, universities selected for accelerator focused on space domain awareness (SpaceNews, 2023-11-08).

Link

Sources

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[1] https://www.heo-robotics.com/

[2] https://www.producthunt.com/posts/heo-inspect

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