Before contact
Prove that the servicer can approach a cooperative target, hold position, gather inspection products, and retreat without imposing contact risk.
Roadmap
A staged path from inspection to physical servicing.
Antandros prioritizes a credible first demonstration: safe approach, characterization, inspection, hold points, readiness verification, and retreat before attempting contact or capture.
01
Feasibility and architecture
Phase I-style foundation
Establish the integrated servicer concept, define the requirements and CONOPS, analyze technical and economic risks, create the verification and validation framework, and produce a staged Phase II plus five-year flight-demonstration roadmap.
Requirements traceability
Mission scenario
CONOPS
Risk register
Cost-effectiveness logic
02
Ground maturation
Phase II-style development
Mature the sensing concept, relative-navigation logic, simulated servicing sequence, ground-test artifacts, and contact/manipulation extensions needed to support a more complete demonstration path.
Simulation
Hardware-in-the-loop planning
Ground demonstration
Contact-capable extensions
03
First flight objective
Non-contact orbital inspection
Demonstrate safe approach to a cooperative or service-ready target, execute inspection at one or more hold points, collect readiness-verification data, and retreat safely.
Approach
Hold point
Inspection
Readiness verification
Retreat
04
Longer-term expansion
Contact-capable services
Extend from inspection toward docking support, towing, relocation, deorbit support, ORU-related servicing, and prepared-spacecraft refueling compatibility after the inspection-first architecture is matured and validated.
Docking support
Towing
Deorbit support
ORU servicing
Prepared refueling compatibility
Risk-reduction logic
The first mission does less so the platform can learn more.
Before capture
Establish target characterization, geometry confidence, fault responses, and abort behavior before capture mechanisms enter the roadmap.
Before refueling
Limit early claims to prepared-spacecraft refueling compatibility as a future pathway, not a near-term unprepared-refueling promise.
Expected outputs
A roadmap that investors, customers, and agencies can evaluate.
The immediate deliverable is not an operational servicer spacecraft. It is a feasibility-backed foundation: integrated concept, mission scenario, CONOPS, risk analysis, requirements traceability, verification plan, and a staged demonstration roadmap.
This keeps the first public story credible while still showing how Antandros can expand from inspection-readiness verification into future physical servicing services.
Roadmap collaboration
Bring Antandros into mission planning before spacecraft design locks.
Early readiness-package decisions can make later inspection, docking, and servicing pathways more realistic.