Privateer

Original SSA and space object detection approach was cancelled. The new product called Pono is a payload and does not seem to be a dedicated constellation.

• Flying future systems as hosted payloads on other satellites rather than building its own constellation

• Privateer Space, the data and intelligence platform powering the future of space sustainability, today announced its partnership with Celestron, the world’s #1 telescope maker, allowing Celestron telescope owners to participate in Privateer’s work in accurately tracking the thousands of human-made objects in Earth orbit. 
• Forging an Online Market for Satellite Access. Marketplace will pair customers with satellite operators. Privateer sees potential to slash observation prices by 90%. Bloomberg, 2023-08-01.
• When Privateer emerged from stealth in 2021, led by Alex Fielding and Steve Wozniak, the company characterized its main mission as space situational awareness: creating the “Google Maps of space,” for satellite mission planning and even orbital debris tracking. The company’s first product, Wayfinder, offers such tracking for spacecraft and other objects in space.
  • But combined with Pono, Privateer is now looking to build a marketplace for data, where customers can “ride-share” on satellites and task them to collect data on whatever region of Earth is of interest. In a statement, Wozniak said that this is akin to when GPS technology became widely available.
  • “Building a data ride-sharing economy in and from space, paired with our on-orbit AI, enables Privateer to give away the safety, sustainability and optimization technology that helps earn satellite operators more customers while giving a global user base a way to access space that traditionally has been reserved for large governments only,” he said. “This is similar to when GPS technology became available to the masses and we expect it to have a similar impact.”
• Pono Partners: Privateer & Lumi Space changing the game in satellite tracking, 2023-11-01.
• 2023-12-04: Pono-1 launched as a hosted payload on D-Orbit ION.
• Privateer acquires Orbital Insight, SpaceNews 2024-05-07. Privateer also raised $56.5 million in a Series A round. Orbital Insight has raised $130.2 million to date.

Privateer is creating the data infrastructure that will enable sustainable growth for the new space economy.

Data and intelligence platform Privateer Space is launching Crow’s Nest, a free and open collision risk assessment tool that seamlessly integrates into the Wayfinder application. The free, real-time satellite data fusion and debris visualization platform provides global transparency on space traffic. Crow’s Nest integrates NASA’s CARA (Conjunction Assessment Risk Analysis) tools for conjunction probability analysis. This will allow for better insight into data predicting if and when a collision will occur. 

We’ve combined the collision assessment capabilities of Crow's Nest with the data fusion power of Wayfinder —and we’re sending them to space. With Pono on board, managing collision avoidance can be a thing of the past. Free of the burden of SSA management, space operators can focus on their missions and customers.

Pono isn’t just about not crashing in space. Its on-edge compute and AI tasking capabilities allow operators to plug directly into the Wayfinder marketplace. That means instant, effortless ancillary revenue streams at no extra cost.

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