🛰 Space Domain

Constellation Management
at Mega-Scale.

Deterministic constraint solving for 6,000+ satellite constellations. Topology abstraction collapses O(N²) pairwise checks into O(|S|) class-level evaluation — delivering 82ms full-solve times with cryptographic command authentication.

The Problem No One Has Solved.

$15-40M
Per Operator / Year
FCC
Regulatory Tailwind
100K+
Sats by 2030
0
Commercial Solvers

Mega-constellations are launching faster than ground segment software can keep up. Operators spend $15–40M/yr on manual spectrum coordination and collision avoidance. The FCC Part 100 overhaul is accelerating enforcement deadlines. Over 100,000 satellites will be in orbit by 2030. And there are zero commercial-grade deterministic constraint solvers available today.

QAE Autonomy Substrate in Action

QAE Autonomy Substrate
82ms Constraint Solving
for 6,000+ Satellites
The Problem
O(N²) Doesn’t Scale
6,000 satellites × 6,000 = 36 million pairwise checks. Brute-force constraint evaluation is computationally intractable at mega-constellation scale.
Our Innovation
Topology Abstraction
O(N²) → O(|S|). Group satellites into equivalence classes by orbital parameters. Solve at the class level. Propagate results to members. 36M checks become ~50 class evaluations.
Live Benchmarks
6,000+
Satellites
50
Classes
82ms
Full Solve
6.0×
Parallel Speedup
Resilience
Sub-Millisecond Recovery
0.6ms failure recovery. When a satellite fails, incremental recomputation propagates class-level updates without resolving the entire constellation.
Market Opportunity
Two Addressable Markets
$4.6B
Ground Segment SW by 2033
$28B
AI Safety & Governance by 2028
Intellectual Property
145 Patent Claims Filed
3 U.S. provisionals covering the full platform. Topology abstraction, deterministic constraint solving, cryptographic certification, and structural safety guarantees.
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QAE Autonomy Substrate — 82ms constraint solving for 6,000+ satellites

Constellation Performance

82ms
Full Solve (6,000+ sats)
0.6ms
Failure Recovery
19,584
Overlay Channels

Topology Abstraction

The key insight: satellites sharing orbital parameters (altitude, inclination, RAAN) face identical constraint environments. By grouping satellites into equivalence classes and solving constraints at the class level, we reduce the problem from O(N²) pairwise checks to O(|S|) class evaluations — a reduction of several orders of magnitude.

Before — Brute Force
O(N²)

6,000 × 6,000 = 36,000,000 pairwise constraint checks. Each satellite evaluated against every other satellite. Minutes to hours of compute time. Doesn’t scale beyond a few hundred satellites.

After — Topology Abstraction
O(|S|)

~50 equivalence classes. Solve constraints once per class. Propagate results to all class members. 82ms total. Scales to 100,000+ satellites with zero architectural changes.

Cryptographic Command Auth

Every command issued to a satellite is signed using Ed25519 digital signatures and verified with HMAC-SHA256 message authentication. This ensures command integrity, prevents replay attacks, and provides a tamper-evident audit trail for every allocation decision.

Digital Signature

Ed25519

Elliptic-curve digital signature scheme. 128-bit security level. Sub-microsecond verification. Each command carries a unique signature tied to the issuing ground station’s private key.

Message Auth

HMAC-SHA256

Hash-based message authentication code for command integrity verification. Prevents tampering during transmission. Provides additional layer of authentication beyond digital signatures.

FCC Part 100 Overhaul

The FCC is actively restructuring satellite regulation under the Part 100 overhaul — creating both urgent compliance deadlines and massive commercial opportunity for operators who can demonstrate deterministic spectrum management and collision avoidance capabilities.

Deployment Milestones

New FCC rules impose strict deployment schedules. Operators must demonstrate active constellation management — not just launch schedules. Missing milestones risks license forfeiture.

Spectrum Wars

Orbital spectrum is a finite resource under increasing demand. Operators who can prove deterministic interference avoidance gain a decisive advantage in spectrum allocation proceedings.

License Forfeiture

The FCC is enforcing “use it or lose it” policies. Operators who fail to meet deployment milestones or demonstrate active management face license revocation — a multi-billion-dollar risk.

Patents A & C — Constellation Management

Patent A — U.S. Provisional Patent
Filed January 1, 2026 · Convert by January 2027
50 CLAIMS
Core Claims
  • Topology abstraction for satellite equivalence classes
  • O(|S|) constraint solver (vs. brute-force O(N²))
  • Incremental recomputation on state changes
  • Ed25519 cryptographic command authentication
Additional Claims
  • Coverage validation and gap detection
  • Hardware acceleration interfaces
  • Multi-constellation coordination
  • Real-time failure recovery (<1ms)
Patent C — Dual-Mode Topological Constraint
Filed March 9, 2026 · Convert by March 2027 · Satellite Constellation Embodiment
43 CLAIMS
Constellation Safety Claims
  • Structural constraint enforcement for FCC spectrum & ITU compliance
  • Formal stability bounds for autonomous constellation optimization
  • Hard constraint projection during reconfiguration operations
  • Adaptive constraint management for collision avoidance
Structural Guarantees
  • Non-compliant configurations projected to nearest compliant state
  • Safety boundaries are topologically unreachable by construction
  • Predictive regime detection for orbital stability
  • Dual-layer constraint architecture

Structural Safety for Satellite Operations

Patent C introduces structural safety guarantees for constellation management. Rather than evaluating compliance after the fact, the system makes non-compliant configurations topologically unreachable — regulatory and physical boundaries are enforced by construction, not by penalty.

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