Cooperative target recognition
Identify readiness-package cues, inspectable reference geometry, and client features that support approach and assessment.
Technology
A servicer-side architecture for inspection-first in-space servicing.
Antandros separates the customer-side readiness package from the servicer-side system that recognizes, approaches, inspects, evaluates, and eventually interacts with cooperative spacecraft.
Architecture premise
Two sides of a service-ready ecosystem.
The customer-side readiness package is Antandros background technology: a cooperative interface concept intended to make client spacecraft easier to inspect, approach, dock with, and eventually service.
The servicer-side architecture is the active spacecraft system: sensing, relative navigation, approach planning, inspection logic, hold-point behavior, verification data products, and future interaction pathways.
Core functions
The early stack is designed around non-contact confidence-building.
Relative navigation and pose estimation
Develop a simulation-ready framework for approach geometry, client pose, observation points, and uncertainty tracking.
Approach-to-hold-point operations
Plan approach corridors, hold points, retreat triggers, and conservative operating envelopes before contact operations.
Inspection data collection
Define views, sensing assumptions, data products, and confidence limits for readiness verification and anomaly assessment support.
Simulated servicing sequence
Model the sequence from detection through inspection and readiness classification, then extend toward contact-capable scenarios.
Verification and validation framework
Trace requirements, assumptions, risks, and outputs so the architecture can mature from feasibility study to demonstration planning.
System concept
Architecture layers
Mission layerUse case, CONOPS, safety posture, economic assumptions
Guidance layerApproach corridor, hold points, keep-out and retreat logic
Perception layerCooperative cues, inspection imagery, relative pose, uncertainty
Client-interface layerReference readiness package, feature definitions, compatibility assumptions
Verification layerRequirements traceability, risks, test cases, demonstration roadmap
Responsible claims
Inspection-first does not overclaim diagnostics or operational servicing.
Antandros treats initial inspection outputs as assessment-support services. Visual or sensor data can support customer engineering review, but the confidence level depends on sensor suite, geometry, lighting, client documentation, and mission-specific validation.
Contact-capable services remain staged future extensions. The architecture is built to mature toward docking support, towing, relocation, deorbit support, ORU-related servicing, and prepared-spacecraft refueling compatibility without presenting those capabilities as current services.
Want the technical brief?
Map your spacecraft to an inspection-readiness architecture.
Antandros can discuss readiness-package assumptions, cooperative cues, interface definitions, and a staged verification plan.