Nautilus provides autonomous guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) subsystems for satellites, including onboard orbit determination, trajectory planning, collision avoidance, and fully autonomous planetary landing using radiometric navigation.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Satellite operators must perform complex guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) tasks—including orbit determination, maneuver planning, collision avoidance, and planetary landing—using bulky ground‑based systems or legacy hardware, which limits autonomy, increases operational latency, and raises mission risk.
Solution
Nautilus delivers fully autonomous GNC subsystems that run directly onboard satellites. Its software suite provides real‑time orbit determination from GNSS, onboard trajectory computation, and cooperative navigation via inter‑satellite links, eliminating the need for external receivers. Integrated collision‑avoidance capabilities continuously assess conjunction risks and generate autonomous avoidance maneuvers, while optical SSA tracks non‑cooperative objects. For lunar and deep‑space missions, Nautilus offers radiometric navigation that enables high‑precision, fully autonomous planetary landings without ground support. All functionalities are offered as a modular Flight Dynamics as a Service (FDaaS) together with on‑ground mission‑design tools (NEMO) and CubeSat ADCS test equipment (CubeDynA), providing end‑to‑end support from concept to operations.
Target Audience
Primary customers are satellite manufacturers, mission operators, and constellation providers that require autonomous GNC capabilities for Earth‑orbit, lunar, or deep‑space missions, including CubeSat developers and agencies planning planetary landers.
Features
- Onboard GNSS‑based orbit determination and real‑time trajectory planning
- Cooperative navigation using inter‑satellite links for distributed constellations
- Continuous conjunction assessment with autonomous avoidance‑maneuver generation
- Optical space‑situational‑awareness (SSA) for tracking non‑cooperative debris
- Radiometric navigation enabling fully autonomous lunar and planetary landings
- Drop‑in replacement for standard GNSS receivers, simplifying integration
- FDaaS platform covering mission analysis, ground operations, and on‑orbit execution
- NEMO software suite (Home, Nexus, Journey) for Earth, lunar, and deep‑space mission design
- CubeDynA hardware for closed‑loop testing of CubeSat ADCS up to 12U (future 16U support)