Space Situational Awareness Suite
SSASuite is a commercial off-the-shelf enterprise platform that serves as the foundation for a comprehensive space situational awareness operations center. With SSASuite, your organization can produce its own highly accurate SSA, with low latency that ensures that the information is actionable and catalog capacity to track everything of interest. An Extended Kalman Filter Smoother produces high accuracy orbits with realistic covariance, ensuring that you understand the degree of statistical certainty behind each orbit. And all this capability is in the hands of your own ops team, on your premises — providing you with SSA that is ready to face today's threats.
Applications
Space Traffic Management (STM)
The architecture behind SSASuite is what makes it an ideal platform for STM. Natively ingesting and fusing all types of sensor data, and offering robust, open APIs, SSASuite is powerful but nimble — the perfect combination for the dynamically growing commercial space ecosystem.
Space Domain Awareness (SDA)
When it comes to defense and intelligence, control and security are paramount. Being an on-premises platform, SSASuite enables you to protect your data and analysis as you need, while collaborating with mission partners and allies as you prefer. The only limits to what your organization can do with SSASuite are the ones you set.
What It Does
There are many capabilities in SSASuite — so many that it can seem bewildering to figure out, in simple terms, what it does. Let’s start with a basic, step-by-step look at how SSASuite works.
Ingest and fuse data
SSASuite pulls in all the observational data you feed it — any sensor type, any orbit regime — and fuses multiple observations of objects to reduce the initial uncertainty of their positions. It provides catalog capacity to handle 100,000 or more objects.
Process data into orbits
Next, SSASuite compares the observations to the tracks in your object catalog and processes the data into updated orbit information. The Extended Kalman Filter-Smoother (EKFS) inside SSASuite dramatically improves accuracy compared to the common Batch Least Squares approach, since each position step is computed with full physics modeling. And you don’t need to sacrifice speed for accuracy with SSASuite, because the system keeps latency as low as 5-10 minutes from observation receipt.
Analyze orbit information
Once SSASuite has processed all the data you have loaded, you can examine objects of interest, investigate maneuvers, and evaluate warning messages. Between data fusion at ingestion and the EKFS during processing, the orbits in your catalog are produced with realistic covariance. This means that with SSASuite, you know how well you know.
Visualization
As you can see, SSASuite delivers some impressive numbers. But it's much more than a computation engine. In fact, the first thing that most people usually notice about SSASuite is the 3D visualization. Maybe you saw a clip in the news or on social media, or maybe you were getting an in-person demo — it’s that visual story that sticks. And that’s why SSASuite is so well equipped to visualize the analysis it delivers, because actionable information is more likely to become action if its story is told effectively.
The Whole Is Greater Than the Sum
So far, we have talked about SSASuite’s capabilities and differentiators individually.
But what really makes SSASuite unique is the combination of them all.
We put it all together this way: SSASuite is the high accuracy, low latency, high capacity, realistic uncertainty, all sensor types, all orbits, on-premises, turnkey solution for your SSA operations center.
To learn more about each of these eight important qualities, keep scrolling.
High accuracy
A highly accurate catalog is foundational to actionable SSA.
SSASuite's combination of advanced algorithms, data fusion, and realistic covariance creates and maintains a catalog of unrivaled accuracy.
25-50m in LEO
50-100m in GEO
Low latency
The speed with which SSA knowledge is obtained ultimately determines how useful it can be.
SSASuite produces SSA with the swiftness needed to keep operators ahead of potential collisions and inside any adversary's OODA loop.
5-10 min
post sensor observation
High capacity
Capacity is the limit of knowledge that an SSA
system can store, in terms of how many objects it
can track.
SSASuite can maintain a gargantuan catalog and
efficiently correlate tracks to the records it keeps.
500,000+ objects
Realistic Uncertainty
SSASuite uses an Extended Kalman Filter + Smoother (EKFS) to apply physics models to each observation to generate realistic covariance, which gives you an actionable probability for knowing how well you are aware of threats.
Greater confidence in your decisions
Fewer false alarms
All sensor types
SSASuite natively fuses data from all sensor types, enabling you to take advantage of the strengths of each, without being limited by their weaknesses.
Sensor Types
Ground and space-based
Owner / operator ranging and GNSS
All orbits
In addition, SSASuite's data fusion ensures that the observation data you input are harmonized across all orbits, creating a complete picture from Earth to the Moon.
Orbits
LEO, MEO, GEO
Cislunar
On-Premises
An on-premises operations center provides secure and rapid space situational awareness — dramatically (and vitally) faster than relying on external services.
SSA operations centers will get the best insights when generated internally.
Collaborate
Operate independently
Gain actionable awareness
Turnkey
SSASuite has been in use at COMSPOC's operations center since its beginning.
It is field tested in addition to software tested, and ready to deploy.
30-90 days to IOC
TRL 9
Initialization and training
Commercial off-the-shelf