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Spinoff story
Mission Control Software Manages Commercial Satellite Fleets
A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
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Overview
Saber Astronautics—based in Sydney, Australia with offices in Denver—used data from Goddard Space Flight Center’s Advanced Composition Explorer to validate data-mining software that models and predicts the behavior of spacecraft components. Upon validation, the company started building its Predictive Interactive Groundstation Interface (PIGI) mission control software. The company uses PIGI, which can predict and track component performance for dozens of satellites simultaneously, in its mission control service, and it will soon enable a commercial software package.