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Built for European governments, operators, and the public interest.
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Private beta
Make collision avoidance an economics problem.
Cadence is a cost estimation platform for satellite operators. It quantifies the operational, fuel, and mission-impact cost of every response option to a conjunction warning, so your team can decide with evidence rather than instinct.
More than 30,000 catalogued objects orbit Earth, and operators receive tens of thousands of conjunction data messages every year. The overwhelming majority require no action. The handful that do can demand fuel-burning manoeuvres that shorten missions and absorb real money.
The hard problem is everything in between. The warning where the right answer is genuinely unclear, where action and inaction both carry cost, and where the decision happens in hours rather than days. Cadence is built for that decision.
What Cadence does
Cost modelling
Quantify the full cost of every response option, including fuel, mission impact, and downstream effects.
Comparative analysis
See multiple response options side-by-side with the trade-offs surfaced.
Workflow integration
Plugs into your existing decision flow. No replacement of internal systems required.
Audit trail
Every decision is documented and reviewable, with the inputs that produced it.
Who it's for
Cadence is built for the teams responsible for satellites in low Earth orbit. We work with:
- Commercial satellite operators
- Defence operators
- Earth observation operators
- Mission planners and operations engineers
- Procurement officers evaluating tooling for their teams
Why now
Low Earth orbit is more congested every year. New constellations launch, existing fleets expand, and the rate of conjunction warnings climbs with them. Operators feel this directly. The conjunction inbox keeps filling, and the cost of mishandling it compounds across the fleet.
Regulators are responding. The FCC, ESA, and national space agencies have all moved toward stricter debris mitigation guidance, and operators increasingly need to demonstrate that their conjunction response decisions are defensible.
The economics of orbital operations are tightening. Mission lifetimes matter more than ever, propellant is a finite resource, and the difference between a defensible manoeuvre and an unnecessary one shows up directly in the unit economics of every satellite.
How it works
01
Connect
Cadence ingests conjunction data messages in the formats published by your tracking providers.
02
Analyse
Cadence models the full cost of each response option using your operational constraints.
03
Decide
Your team makes the call with quantified evidence, and the decision is logged.
Decision view
Conjunction event, response options
Option A minor manoeuvre
Option B extended manoeuvre
Option C no action
ESA EXPRO+ shortlisted bidderBuilt on EU infrastructureEU data residency by defaultTallinn, Estonia
Cadence is in private beta. We are onboarding operators ahead of general availability later this year.
Stylised orbital plot, illustrative
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