KEPLER — Telemetry
Streams every sensor the bird owns into one timeline. Downlink gaps get reconstructed, not guessed. You read what the spacecraft actually said.
4.2 TB / day
Flight-proven
Orbital systems studio · est. 2026
Hold your
Hold your
orbit.
We hold
the rest.
ORBIT LABS builds the telemetry, autonomy, and ground-link software that keeps small spacecraft exactly where physics put them — for years, not weeks. No drift, no drama, no babysitting.
27.6km/s
Orbital velocity held
14birds
Spacecraft under watch
99.98%
Uptime, last 12 months
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Longest continuous watch
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Median anomaly response
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Telemetry processed / day
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Spacecraft lost on our watch
What we fly
Three systems. One job:
Three systems. One job:
keep the bird on its rail.
Every spacecraft we watch runs the same three layers. Each one is boring on purpose — boring is what survives five years in vacuum.
TYCHO — Autonomy
Onboard rules that keep the spacecraft safe when the ground is 40 minutes away. Station-keeping, safe-mode entry, and burn windows — no human required.
1,900+ decisions
Onboard
LAGRANGE — Ground link
Scheduling and routing across a distributed ground network. Passes are booked, tracked, and handed off automatically. Your data lands in one place.
3 continents
Ground-side
Flight heritage
Where the systems
Where the systems
have already flown.
2024 · Completed
PERIAPSIS-1 — Tech demo
A 6U cubesat that proved KEPLER's gap reconstruction against a noisy S-band downlink. 511 days of continuous watch; the bird still phones home.
2025 · Completed
HELIOS DRIFT — Constellation pilot
Four spacecraft sharing one autonomy layer. TYCHO ran 1,900+ station-keeping decisions with zero ground overrides.
2026 · In flight
VANTA — Deep-space relay
A single relay bird at a Lagrange point, testing LAGRANGE handoffs across three continents of ground stations. Currently day 212.
2027 · Manifested
APOAPSIS — Fleet operations
Twelve spacecraft, one console, one team of two. The mission we built all of this for.
The lab
Small crew.
Small crew.
Long watches.
Eight people. Everyone carries a pager. Nobody carries a title they didn't earn in a mission.
Δv
Flight dynamics
Orbit determination
Computes where the bird is, where it's going, and the cheapest burn to keep it there.
Runs batch least-squares and Kalman filtering on every tracking pass. Outputs a state vector, a covariance, and a maneuver plan with Δv budget to the centimeter-per-second.
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Autonomy
Onboard software
Writes the rules the spacecraft follows when nobody is listening. Paranoid by profession.
Every rule is a finite state machine with a verified safe-mode fallback. If two rules ever disagree, the spacecraft defaults to the most conservative action and waits for ground.
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Ground segment
Link & scheduling
Owns every pass, every antenna booking, every byte from sky to disk.
Schedules across a network of ground stations with automatic conflict resolution. Tracks link margin in real time and reroutes when a station degrades.
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Mission ops
Watch standing
The humans awake at 03:00 when a voltage line looks wrong. They've seen it before.
Follows runbooks written from past anomalies. Every alert has an owner, an escalation path, and a maximum time-to-acknowledge. Median response: 38 minutes.
ORBIT Relays · 3,333
The Dock Kid
The Dock Kid
collectibles.
Small crew. Long watches. 3,333 Dock Kid collectibles from the long-watch signal network — click any one for full traits.
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Your spacecraft.
Your spacecraft.
Our watch.
Tell us the orbit, the bus, and the launch window. We'll tell you exactly what it takes to hold it — in writing, with numbers.
Or write directly
ops@orbitlabs.space