SDA TAP Lab

#Congratulations to EarthCast Technologies, LP for being the fourteenth winner in Apollo #Accelerator Cohort 4! From the period of 6 August through 29 October 2024, this team successfully demonstrated the utility of their data aggregation service, serving up user-friendly data from dozens of civil and environmental satellites in near real-time to include lightening, wind shear, turbulence, clouds, ionospheric VTEC, and space weather...which otherwise would be cumbersome or impractical for third parties to aggregate on their own. This service enables prediction of foreign launch commit criteria and tracking during ascent. Excellent work!! #innovation #space

#Congratulations to PointPro Inc. for being the thirteenth winner in Apollo #Accelerator Cohort 4! From the period of 6 August through 29 October 2024, this team successfully demonstrated automated propagation and reentry prediction using an Adaptive Monte Carlos (AMC) technique. This enables both sensor search and reacquisition and also warning for hazardous reentries from #space Excellent work!! #innovation

Thanks to Delta 2 for their endorsement and advocacy of the winning Fight Tonight project, DnD! Go team!

#Congratulations to Space Protocol for being the twelfth winner from Apollo #Accelerator Cohort 4! From the period of 6 August through 29 October 2024, this team successfully demonstrated a dynamic sensor calibration technique that can produce astrometric sigma/bias corrections from a combination of sources beyond traditional ILRS and GNSS orbits. This enables on-the-fly, and more frequent, calibration #space Excellent work!! #innovation #partnertowin

#Congratulations to SPACEMAP for being the eleventh winner from Apollo #Accelerator Cohort 4! From the period of 6 August through 29 October 2024, this team successfully demonstrated an automated service for predicting electro-optical imaging opportunities between satellites. This enables early warning of potential ISR risks to our #space assets and helps us develop a clearer understanding of adversary tactics. Excellent work!! Partner to win!! #innovation #partnertowin

#Congratulations to iSEE - Impact Space Expedition and Exploration for being the tenth winner from Apollo #Accelerator Cohort 4! From the period of 6 August through 29 October 2024, this team successfully demonstrated an automated service for "matching" or "deduplicating" orbits from multiple catalogs. Many #space companies have unique ways to create orbits from uncorrelated tracks (UCTs) - iSEE's capability helps us identify when an ensemble of UCT processors may have found the same target. Additionally, this capability can be used to correlate orbits and their names across many different catalogs (a mega catalog!) Excellent work!! #innovation

#Congratulations to Orion Space Solutions, an Arcfield Company for being the ninth winner from Apollo #Accelerator Cohort 4! From the period of 6 August through 29 October 2024, this team successfully demonstrated a near real-time service called "Dragster" for modeling atmospheric density. For satellites below roughly 600km altitude, drag is the dominating force which perturbs orbits. Orion's higher resolution atmospheric modeling can significantly improve orbit propagation accuracy...this a huge deal for dozens of core #space domain awareness functions. Excellent work!! #innovation

#Congratulations to Areté for being the eighth winner from Apollo #Accelerator Cohort 4! From the period of 6 August through 29 October 2024, this team successfully demonstrated a 100% software enhancement to exist surveillance sensors that automatically runs an *uncued* velocity matched filter (VMF) on optical imagery that improves sensor sensitivity to track dim targets. This helps us keep custody of small or dim potential threat #space objects. Excellent work! #innovation

#Congratulations to DATA FUSION & NEURAL NETWORKS for being the seventh winner from Apollo #Accelerator Cohort 4! From the period of 6 August through 29 October 2024, this team successfully demonstrated the ability to automatically recommend a set of defensive response actions if/when a #space system is at risk. This automation turns SDA into action. Excellent work. #innovation

#Congratulations to Scout Space for being the sixth winner from Apollo #Accelerator Cohort 4! From the period of 6 August through 29 October 2024, this team successfully demonstrated the ability to predict RF jamming weapon engagement zones (WEZ) between adversaries and our own space assets. Doing this automatically days in advance enables defensive actions to be taken, to avoid surprise, and mitigate adversary effectiveness. This type of incremental #innovation ensures protection and defense of our #space systems. Excellent work.