Synapse
Synapse provides a distributed orchestration control plane for large satellite constellations, turning thousands of orbiting assets into a coordinated system without relying on ground stations.
- Aerospace
- Artificial Intelligence
- Defense Tech
Funding
Founders
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Product
Problem
Operating large satellite constellations with legacy ground‑centric command systems creates a “coordination tax”: as the number of nodes grows, operators must manually manage exponentially more interactions, and limited or intermittent ground links cause latency that exceeds decision windows.
Solution
Synapse offers a modular coordination layer that runs alongside existing flight software, distributing operational authority to each satellite. The engine fuses optical, RF, and electronic intelligence from all nodes into a shared orbital picture, runs on‑board machine‑learning classifiers across 20+ event categories, and reaches fleet‑wide consensus via an encrypted mesh network in under four seconds. This enables autonomous detection, classification, and response without ground intervention, turning thousands of assets into a coordinated system while keeping ground links as a convenience rather than a dependency.
Target Audience
Primary customers are defense agencies, commercial satellite operators, and insurance firms that manage proliferated constellations and require autonomous, scalable on‑orbit coordination.
Features
- Flight‑software adjacent deployment that requires no code rewrite of existing spacecraft
- Real‑time fusion of multi‑source sensor data (optical, RF, electronic) into a unified orbital view
- On‑board ML models that classify threats, anomalies, and operational events into 20+ categories
- Encrypted mesh networking for peer‑to‑peer consensus and state synchronization across the constellation
- Autonomous execution of mission‑appropriate actions within 4 seconds of event detection
- Zero reliance on continuous ground contact; ground links used only when available