SATELLITE COLLISION AVOIDANCE POWERED BY AI & ML - Chiara

Chiara Manfletti, Professor and Chief Operating Officer @Neuraspace
Neuraspace has rasied 25M euros for a Smart Traffic Management Solution for Satellite Constellations.
Morgan Stanley forecasts the space industry, which is today at 350 billion USD, to top 1 trillion dollars by 2040. But this growth is threatened by space debris and an increasing number of active satellites. Satellite operators already pay the price, with a deluge of alerts, most of them false, and therefore performing unnecessary manoeuvres. With an emergency manoeuvre in LEO costing €25,000, a 300-satellite constellation may receive about 580 alerts per year requiring human intervention and satellite manoeuvre, costing €14 million per year. To address these problems, current approaches face serious challenges: (1) Lack of data on space debris;
(2) High number of false alerts and a large uncertainty; (3) Lack of scalability and automation for an increasing number of assets.
Neuraspace is the first AI / ML platform addressing these New Space challenges. Our customers are satellite operators facing these challenges to perform space operations, and other stakeholders in need of these services (e.g insurance providers for satellite operators, software providers and regulators). The PRR Agenda “Neuraspace - AI fight Space Debris”, will allow the company to acquire sensor infrastructure (radars) and boost the company growth and product development.