Mission Control, Onboard
Orca Aerospace builds the AI spacecraft operator that flies with the vehicle. It understands the mission, watches the systems, and acts when the ground can't.
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The Problem
Space Is Scaling Faster Than The People Who Fly It
Constellations grow by thousands of vehicles a year. Each one is flown from the ground, through scheduled passes, narrow links, and light-lag no console can beat. Every anomaly waits for a human to notice. Ops rooms do not scale the way launch manifests do.
Every spacecraft still needs a person on the ground to fly it.
Every decision waits for a scheduled pass and a narrow link.
Every minute spent waiting is mission time lost.
Our Answer
Orca Lives Onboard
An AI operator on the flight computer. The AI decides what to do next. A deterministic planner decides how to do it. Guardrails approve or deny every command before it reaches the vehicle. The ground sets the mission. Orca flies it.
OnboardIt rides the vehicle. No round trip to a console, no waiting for a pass.
GatedThe AI picks the goal, a deterministic planner turns it into maneuvers, and guardrails approve or deny each command before it touches the vehicle.
IndependentIt keeps the mission moving between passes, and long after the ground goes quiet.
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