Central Blue
Central Blue is building a space-based power network that collects sunlight and beams it via laser to dedicated receiver ports on other spacecraft. The company also offers CORE, a software platform that simulates system-level interactions and validates recovery sequences to reduce mission risk before launch and in orbit. Their receiver design is co-developed with the customer's thermal system to maximize available spacecraft mass for the mission.
- Space Technology
- Energy
- Hardware
- Software Only
- Aerospace
- Artificial Intelligence
Funding
Founders
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Product
Problem
Spacecraft are built from systems that share power, heat, timing, and control, meaning a command that is safe by itself can become dangerous when it collides with another routine event. These system-level interactions can push healthy components into an emergency, causing loss of contact or mission failure that is difficult to predict and recover from using traditional fault analysis.
Solution
CORE is a software platform that searches for hidden combinations of timing, power, and commands that can strand a spacecraft, then tests recovery sequences before the mission depends on them. The platform simulates scenarios such as eclipse periods where solar panels stop generating power and multiple subsystems draw from the battery simultaneously, identifying when their overlap exceeds safe limits. CORE then evaluates recovery sequences to determine which command orders keep the satellite alive, showing engineers which recovery paths hold and why. This allows mission teams to discover and validate recovery procedures in advance rather than during an actual on-orbit emergency.
Target Audience
Primary customers are spacecraft mission teams, satellite manufacturers, and aerospace engineering organizations that need to validate system-level reliability and recovery procedures before launch and during orbital operations.
Features
- System-level interaction analysis that searches timing and resource conflicts across power, heat, and control subsystems
- Scenario simulation for critical events like eclipse periods with battery-limited operations
- Recovery sequence validation that tests command orders to prove which ones prevent repeated failures
- ORACLE module for pre-launch identification and ranking of dangerous operating combinations against mission limits
- REACH module for in-orbit risk monitoring that connects telemetry to mission limits and compares recovery plans against current spacecraft state
- MEGALITH extension for specialized missions requiring fault-vs-external-cause discrimination with uncertainty preservation
- Visualization of hidden conditions that push healthy systems into emergencies