ATLAS Space Operations @ Nanosats Database

Name	ATLAS Space Operations
Products Services	Ground Station Network
Country	US
Founded	2015
Funding	$37M
Oneliner	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.
Description	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.
Notes	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.
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Last modified: 2022-12-28