Award

There is an acute need for low cost, high accuracy, timely SDA in the LEO domain with future mega-constellation deployments. GALLEON will aid in the persistent observation and anomaly detection of these new objects. GALLEON will allow low-cost high-availability LEO SDA via COTS optical hardware and commercially available computers and software. In Phase I, GALLEON will determine the most suitable hardware and software configuration for an optical LEO tracking site alongside determining the most fitting way to demonstrate the technology for Phase II. GALLEON’s data will be useful to both government and commercial customers. The commercial solution will primarily focus on initial tracking post-deployment, debris and collision avoidance, whereas the government solution will be focused on anomaly detection and persistence. ExoAnalytic Solutions, with more than a decade of experience in commercial SDA and a global network of over 300 telescopes, is uniquely qualified to develop, deploy, and commercialize this technology globally.