Otter OS is a constellation operating system: satellites detect threats together and commit an avoidance maneuver onboard, early, closing in minutes a decision loop that takes ground operations hours to weeks. The result: safety and scale, without growing your ops team.
By 2030, ~100,000 satellites will overwhelm traditional operations where decisions take hours to weeks. A new architecture is required.
Screening, approving, and uplinking a maneuver through a human-gated ground system takes hours to weeks. By then the cheap window to act has closed, and the debris is too close for a small early burn to work.
One satellite spotting debris is useless unless the whole fleet knows instantly. Ground stations can’t relay that fast, so the constellation has to share what each satellite sees, onboard, in real time.
Comms links fail, ground stations can be jammed or targeted, and the debris keeps coming. A fleet that waits for permission to maneuver is a liability. It has to decide and act onboard, inside operator-defined policy guardrails.
A trusted-autonomy platform that runs on every satellite in the fleet. A linked constellation detects threats, reasons about them onboard, and commits maneuvers in time, without waiting for the ground loop. Policy guardrails keep every action inside operator-defined bounds.
Four layers run on every node, trust enforced vertically through all of them
Every maneuver is re-screened against the entire fleet’s trajectories, so avoiding one threat never creates another. Coordination only a linked constellation can do.
One satellite detects a threat and the entire constellation knows: a shared operating picture across the fleet, with no ground round-trip. Awareness that compounds as the fleet grows.
Idle satellites donate spare compute to busy neighbors. The constellation acts as one shared computer, so compute capacity grows with the fleet instead of with your hardware budget.
Every proposed action is evaluated by an explicit, auditable policy engine. Operators define intent and bounds; Otter OS executes within them, even with no comms link.
Task allocation and replanning across the entire constellation as conditions change, including partial failures, denied comms, or new debris fields entering the threat window.
Fleet-wide coordination of who senses, who processes, and who downlinks, maximizing mission throughput across every satellite simultaneously.
From LEO commercial constellations to cislunar government assets, Otter OS adapts to the mission, not the other way around.
Run thousands of satellites with a handful of people. Conjunction management runs autonomously 24/7 across the entire fleet, so your team stays focused on the mission, not firefighting.
Act decisively when ground contact is jammed, destroyed, or simply unavailable. Full decision autonomy with tamper-evident, regulator-ready audit trails, from LEO to cislunar.
Unlock fleet-scale autonomy for any mission, any budget. Installs alongside existing flight software. Otter OS upgrades the constellation without redesigning a single satellite.
Rendezvous and docking demand a decision loop faster than any ground-in-the-loop process can close, even with perfect comms. Otter OS closes that loop entirely onboard.
LEO, GEO, and cislunar, with no human hand-off delay. Competitors are ground-based advisories or LEO-only; Otter OS commits and executes the maneuver onboard, closing the decision loop in minutes instead of the hours to weeks a ground loop takes.
Policy, guardrails, and explainability at every node and fleet-wide. Operators sign off on intent, the system provably cannot exceed defined delta-V budgets or violate keep-out zones.
Installs alongside existing flight software via standard interfaces. Never competes with the customer’s hardware or mission design, supports heterogeneous fleets.
Every new satellite on Otter OS strengthens the whole fleet: shared threat awareness, pooled compute, and coordination quality all improve as the fleet grows. The value of the network compounds with every satellite added.
Every satellite we launch carries a piece of life on Earth: the calls we make, the maps we follow, the weather we trust. As orbit fills with tens of thousands of spacecraft, no one keeps them safe by hand. The fleets that fly themselves are the ones that scale, and win. Otter is building that autonomy.
The operators who move first capture the network effect. We’re onboarding early partners across commercial constellations, government in-orbit assets, and individual missions. Whether you fly one satellite or thousands, let’s talk, or sign up to follow our progress.
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