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Orbital Eyes

Autonomy for Visual Tracking and Rendezvous in Orbit

System Overview

Orbital Eyes is a CubeSat-scale autonomy stack that enables fully autonomous visual tracking, proximity operations, and onboard execution without persistent uplink. Designed for contested or comms-limited environments, it performs inspection, characterisation, or close approach based on local sensor input and uploaded targeting data.

Orbital Eyes Payload

Targeting Loop

The Orbital Eyes system executes a full targeting and approach loop using a combination of edge data processing and user provided target information. Starting with orbital phasing, the system detects target systems at subpixel resolutions as defined by the user optical payloads, locks on, and approaches the target autonomously using an advantage set of reinforcement trained decision engine systems, concluding with either observation, effect delivery, or docking depending on mission configuration.


Orbital Eyes Targeting Process

Key Capabilities

Detects 1 m² targets from up to 20 km with just a 10cm lens (optics dependent)

Performs subpixel tracking and pose estimation

Plans and executes RPO sequences onboard

Outputs discrete pointing and thrust commands

Complies with uploaded safety and exclusion parameters

Product Configurations

OE-Core

OE-Core

Software-only licence for onboard integration.

OE+

OE+

2.2U integrated payload with optics and compute.

OE+ Secure

OE+ Secure

Defence-grade version with additional edge encryption capabilities.

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