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Mission Operations & Orchestration

Orchestrate Mission Operations Across Heterogeneous Assets

Balance competing mission goals across government and commercial constellations without building separate systems for each.

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The Challenge

Simplistic Solutions Can’t Coordinate Diverse Assets

  • Government satellites, commercial constellations, legacy ground systems, most solutions pick one and ignore the others, leaving you managing separate disconnected tools.
  • One system for Satellite A, another for Satellite B. They don’t talk to each other, so you can’t shift resources between them or balance competing priorities.
  • Building one-off systems from scratch costs millions and breaks when your constellation changes, requirements shift, or new vendors appear.
  • Without visibility into what’s actually possible across your networks, you either get no opportunities due to conflicts, request everything and get redundancy, or settle for mediocre results.
The Solution

Orchestrate Missions Across Organizations And Networks

One unified platform replaces stovepiped systems and simplistic schedulers with true mission orchestration, automating routine tasks while optimizing across competing goals.

Automation Handles Routine Work

Orchestration runs continuously without waiting for approvals or manual intervention, triggering replanning when new requests arrive or conditions change.

One Platform For All Your Assets

Government satellites, commercial constellations, legacy ground systems, SATCOM networks, use one unified system instead of separate tools for each vendor or asset type.

Optimization Balances Competing Goals

Quantifiable scoring weighs multiple mission priorities simultaneously, finding solutions that work across your entire constellation rather than optimizing one goal at the expense of others.

Coordinate Across Organizations

Networks and constellations owned by different organizations achieve common goals through unified orchestration, something custom solutions built for single missions can’t do.

Better Decisions, Not Just Speed

You get solutions that balance competing priorities across your full operational picture, not just faster scheduling. Configurable autonomy levels let operators set their comfort with automated decision-making.

Capabilities

Solutions For All Of Your Space Operations

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Balance Competing Mission Goals

Define what matters to your mission: timeline, resources, power constraints. The system balances all of them together using quantifiable scoring across your constellation.

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02

Coordinate Across Organizations

Different organizations with different priorities can now coordinate on one platform instead of managing separate disconnected systems.

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Unify Any Vendor Or Asset Type

One platform handles everything from government satellites to legacy ground systems without locking you into a single vendor.

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04

Resolve Conflicts In Minutes

No more days of coordination or arguments over priorities. The system finds solutions that work across your whole operation.

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05

Run Continuous Autonomous Operations

Onboard planning handles calculations without waiting for ground contact. Continuous re-evaluation adapts as conditions change. You control how much automation you’re comfortable with.

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See Your Full Operational Picture

Our dashboard shows everything happening across all your assets and missions. You spot opportunities you’d miss managing systems separately.

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Why Auria

COTS Flexibility At Constellation Scale

COTS That Also Builds Solutions
Vendor-Agnostic Design
Configurable Scoring Balances Your Priorities
Built To Handle Any Mission

COTS That Also Builds Solutions

COTS products mean no vendor lock-in and no reinventing when your constellation changes. Full solutions mean we understand the real problems.

Vendor-Agnostic Design

Government systems, commercial constellations, legacy equipment, one platform talks to everyone. You’re not stuck with one vendor’s ecosystem when you need to upgrade or add new assets.

Configurable Scoring Balances Your Priorities

Multiple algorithms compete to find the best solution. You tune the scoring so it adapts when your priorities change.

Built To Handle Any Mission

Flexible architecture means your system evolves with your needs. Add new satellites, change priorities, integrate new vendors without rebuilding from scratch.

Trusted By Mission-Critical Space Operations

US Space Force

Flight Dynamics & Mission Management

Mission management and flight dynamics software for tactical space ground systems. Cloud-based Kubernetes deployment trusted by Space Force for orbital warfare operations.

NOAA

EASI Ground Scheduling

Enterprise ground station scheduling using Astro Scheduler. Schedules across NOAA, NASA, USSF, and commercial networks for LEO, GEO, and deep space.

A commercial imagery operator

CPAW Collection Planning

Collection planning software for commercial imaging satellites. CPAW optimizes imaging operations across satellite constellations for international collection missions.

Products

HeliOS Products For Mission Operations & Orchestration

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HeliOS

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APS (Autonomous Planning System)

Onboard mission planning for satellite constellations. Calculations happen without ground latency.

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Astro Scheduler

Contact planning that generates deconflicted schedules across satellites, ground stations, and missions. Powers EASI.

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HeliOS Software

CPAW

Imaging collection planning that balances competing goals across satellite constellations.

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Heimdall

Sensor tasking optimization for space domain awareness across government and commercial networks.

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SpyMeSat

Mobile and web app for ordering commercial satellite imagery on demand.

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FAQ

Common Questions About Mission Operations Orchestration

What is mission operations orchestration and why does it matter?
Why is coordinating government and commercial satellites so difficult?
What’s the difference between automation and optimization in mission operations?
How do you know what’s actually possible with your satellites and ground stations?
What happens when satellite control systems and ground schedulers don’t talk to each other?
How do you balance multiple mission goals without conflicts?
What’s the risk of building custom satellite scheduling software?
Can you integrate legacy ground systems with new commercial satellites?
How quickly can orchestration adapt when new mission priorities emerge?
What does configurable autonomy mean in satellite operations?

Mission operations orchestration is coordinating satellites, ground stations, and networks as one unified system instead of managing separate disconnected tools. It matters because modern space operations require balancing multiple competing goals—mission timeline, resource availability, power constraints—across diverse assets owned by different organizations. Orchestration lets you see the whole picture and make decisions that work for your entire operation instead of optimizing one system at the expense of others.

Government satellites work one way, commercial constellations work another, legacy ground systems work a third way. Each is built by different vendors with different interfaces and priorities. Getting them to talk to each other and coordinate on shared goals requires either custom development (expensive and brittle) or a flexible platform designed for exactly this problem. Most organizations give up and manage separate systems for each constellation, wasting resources and missing opportunities.

Automation means tasks run continuously without waiting for approvals or people to manually coordinate. Optimization means making better decisions by weighing all your competing goals simultaneously instead of optimizing one goal and sacrificing others. You need both. Automation keeps operations running 24/7. Optimization ensures the plans it’s running actually balance your real mission priorities.

Most organizations don’t. They task blind—requesting observations or passes and hoping something’s available. Maybe there’s a conflict with another priority. Maybe a different satellite would give better data. Maybe you don’t have ground contact at the right time. Without visibility into what’s actually possible across your whole constellation, you either get no observations, redundant coverage from everyone responding, or mediocre results.

Stovepiping. One system manages Satellite A, another manages Satellite B. They can’t shift resources between them or balance competing priorities. You can’t leverage spare capacity in one constellation to help another. Operators spend time manually transferring data between systems instead of focusing on mission execution. You end up with inefficient resource allocation and high maintenance costs keeping multiple disconnected systems running.

Quantifiable scoring. Define what matters to your mission and weight each priority. Search for new objects gets weight X, custody of known threats gets weight Y, characterization of high-value targets gets weight Z. The system scores observations across all priorities simultaneously and finds solutions that balance all three. Different days might weight them differently. The system adapts.

Custom systems are rigid. They work for what you built them for and break when conditions change. Your constellation grows, new requirements emerge, vendors change, and you’re stuck with a system that doesn’t adapt. It’s expensive to maintain and expensive to upgrade. You’re locked into specific vendor integrations with no way out. Building from scratch also takes 18-24 months and millions of dollars versus deploying proven COTS software in weeks.

Yes, but it depends on open architecture and vendor-agnostic design. Platforms built around specific vendors lock you in. Platforms built on open APIs and standard interfaces let you plug in government systems, commercial constellations, and legacy equipment without ripping everything out and rebuilding. The key is flexibility without brittleness—systems that evolve when your needs change.

With unified orchestration, you can reschedule operations in minutes based on new information or changed priorities. Without coordination, you’re making phone calls, sending emails, and hoping people respond. Critical observations slip windows while you coordinate. Threats emerge and you’re stuck waiting for the next scheduled planning cycle instead of responding immediately.

It means you control how much the system runs without human intervention. Some operators want the system to make all decisions autonomously. Others want to approve changes. Configurable autonomy lets you set your comfort level. You’re not choosing between fully manual (no automation) or fully autonomous (scary). You define the level of automated decision-making you trust, and the system respects that boundary.

Ready To Orchestrate Your Mission Operations?

Whether you’re orchestrating government and commercial satellites or coordinating across vendors, balancing competing priorities while avoiding lock-in matters. One platform instead of separate systems.

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