Readiness-package verification
Confirm that cooperative cues, interface geometry, markings, and readiness features are observable and usable by a future servicer.
Servicer-side architecture · Cooperative spacecraft · RPO-ready operations
Standards-aligned servicing starts with non-contact verification.
Antandros is developing a servicer-side spacecraft architecture for advanced non-contact inspection and servicing-readiness verification of cooperative client spacecraft, before progressing toward contact-capable mission phases.
01Non-contact first service
02Standards traceability
03Staged flight-demo path
What Antandros is building
A staged architecture from inspection-first missions to future servicing pathways.
Antandros is developing the servicer-side functions for cooperative target recognition, relative navigation, approach-to-hold-point operations, and servicing-readiness verification.
The first mission profile is intentionally lower risk: inspect, characterize, verify readiness, and retreat. Contact-capable services are treated as later roadmap phases, not current operations.
Initial service focus
Advanced non-contact inspection and servicing-readiness verification.
An initial service designed to deliver practical decision support without immediate physical interaction with the client spacecraft.
Solar-array inspection
Capture external visual evidence for deployment, alignment, damage, contamination, or degradation review.
MMOD assessment support
Collect imagery and inspection data that can support customer review of micrometeoroid and orbital-debris events.
Thermal-anomaly screening
Provide inspection support for hotspot review and other apparent external thermal issues, with sensor-dependent confidence.
Visible anomaly assessment
Gather targeted views of structures, deployables, surfaces, and externally visible features after commissioning or anomaly events.
Design-validation inspection
Help teams compare on-orbit external configuration against expected deployment or operational states.
Contamination & degradation
Inspect surfaces for apparent discoloration, erosion, contamination, or other external changes over mission life.
Charging-related anomaly support
Provide visual and contextual data that may support customer-led engineering assessment of charging-related effects.
Inspection outputs are assessment-support data. Higher-confidence diagnostics may require specialized sensors, customer engineering review, or payload-specific development.
Servicer-side stack
From recognition to retreat, designed as a staged architecture.
01
Recognize
Detect cooperative target features and classify the client’s readiness-package state.
02
Navigate
Estimate relative pose and approach corridor feasibility using standards-aware target assumptions.
03
Hold
Execute approach-to-hold-point logic with safe retreat criteria and conservative keep-out assumptions.
04
Inspect
Collect visible, geometric, and sensor-driven data products needed for readiness verification.
05
Verify
Trace inspection observations to requirements, assumptions, risks, and staged servicing readiness.
06
Extend
Mature toward ground-demonstrated contact, manipulation, and prepared-spacecraft servicing pathways.
Why it matters
Servicing is difficult to scale when every mission is bespoke.
A durable commercial servicing market needs repeatable interfaces, inspectable client features, reusable CONOPS, and objective evidence that a servicer can safely approach cooperative spacecraft.
Antandros’ thesis is that stronger standardization and interoperability between client and servicer spacecraft can reduce mission friction and long-run servicing cost.
See the standards postureStaged roadmap
Conservative first demonstration, expandable long-term services.
Phase I foundation
Feasibility-backed architecture
Requirements, concept of operations, feasibility analysis, risk register, preliminary economics, V&V framework, and flight-demonstration roadmap.
Phase II maturation
Ground demonstration path
Simulation, hardware-in-the-loop planning, contact/manipulation maturation, and staged test artifacts for a credible orbital demonstration.
Five-year objective
Non-contact orbital inspection
Demonstrate safe approach, characterization, inspection, readiness verification, hold points, and retreat before physical interaction.
For spacecraft teams, partners, and program collaborators
Plan spacecraft interfaces now for credible inspection and future servicing readiness.
Talk with Antandros about cooperative readiness packages, standards traceability, inspection concepts, and staged servicing-roadmap planning.