Two products.
One integrated stack.
The AI engine leads; the thruster is built for it — and the same AI commands third-party propulsion too. Together, the first fully autonomous self-defending satellite.
Buddy
The onboard, unified AI engine that makes autonomous decisions and delivers real-time intelligence from orbit. Its first job is acting: when a conjunction warning arrives, Buddy plans and executes the avoidance maneuver onboard, through a safety-bounded interface — no ground loop, no waiting on a flight-dynamics team. Its second job is seeing: tracking nearby objects of known geometry for proximity awareness, inspection, and threat characterization — with debris tracking as a complementary capability, not the promise.
Hardware-agnostic
Runs on any satellite with a COTS camera and an edge compute board. No custom hardware, no vendor lock-in.
Updatable over the air
New models deploy to orbit like software. The capability improves long after the satellite has launched.
Propulsion-agnostic
Commands our own micro-arcjet or a third-party thruster through the same safety-bounded interface — the AI requests a maneuver; a validated controller executes it.
Plasma
A water-electrolysis pulsed micro-arcjet — the first propulsion system designed for Buddy's command interface. The legs that let a small satellite manoeuvre: station-keeping, collision avoidance, orbit changes, and controlled deorbit, on a propellant that is safe to launch.
Non-toxic & launch-safe
Water propellant ships as standard cargo. No HAZMAT, no high-pressure vessel, no special handling — compatible even near crewed vehicles.
Sized for small spacecraft
Built for the platforms where thrust-to-mass matters most. Larger spacecraft are served by scaling the propellant load — the physics is unchanged, the tank grows.
Refuelable anywhere
Water ice exists on the Moon, Mars, and asteroids. The only propulsion whose supply chain extends across the solar system.
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