ATLAS Space Operations

We are working to change the way an entire industry looks at space-based communications and data alike. How? By providing a revolutionary approach to satellite communications. An approach that got us listed by Morgan Stanley as a top 12 disruptor in the satellite industry.

Atlas’ software platform, Freedom, attacks that problem by using machine learning to determine the best times to talk with a satellite based on the customer’s preferences. The result is a more flexible, automated experience that reduces the burden on the operator.

• The platform uses a priority-based scheduling construct to weigh ground station capacity with customer comms needs.
• Per McDaniel, the system’s choices are in line with the choices the customers would have made ~98% of the time, and the company is working on bringing that closer to 100%.
• Freedom is “medium-agnostic,” McDaniel said, and can make these decisions regardless of where the data is coming from or what form it’s in—including, potentially, optical links.

• Atlas Space Operations Completes Testing on Phased Array Antenna System, 2020-12-22.
• NASA SBIR project for  Cognitive Constellation Management Scheduling. A cognitive constellation management scheduler is made aware of the customers goals and seeks to produce and select the ground station contact schedule that best satisfies a customer’s goals among all possible/feasible schedules. 
• Atlas, a ground software as a service company based in Michigan, is gaining access to 11 ground antennas sites through the AWS Solution Provider Program. Atlas already operates 13 ground stations around the world. SpaceNews, 2023-02-09.
• A subsidiary of Atlas Space Operations, Freedom Space provides a cloud-based software platform used to manage satellite ground systems, 2024-01-25.
• ATLAS Space Operations completes rapid onboarding of critical TROPICS spacecraft, 2024-08-01.