Total Orbital Awareness
Fuse public catalogs, operator telemetry, optical observations, radar passes, and anomaly reports into a living map of every object that matters.
far beyond future
Cleanup becomes an operating system.Orbit gets maintained.
This is the most ambitious version of Space Janitor: tools and techniques for selecting cleanup targets, planning removal missions, coordinating approvals, verifying outcomes, and eventually maintaining orbit as shared infrastructure.
Ultimate ambition
maintenance layer
A world where cleanup missions are chosen, approved, executed, and audited through one trusted orbital coordination layer.
Detect
Rank
Plan
Clear
Remove
Verify
cleanup stack
From orbital awareness to active maintenance.
The near-term product earns trust through intelligence. The long-term system turns that intelligence into safe, coordinated intervention.
Target Selection Engine
Rank debris by collision consequence, removal feasibility, legal status, salvage value, and the missions it unlocks for the rest of orbit.
Autonomous Cleanup Planning
Generate mission plans that compare capture windows, fuel budgets, rendezvous risk, disposal paths, insurance impact, and provider capability.
Multi-Actor Coordination
Coordinate operators, agencies, insurers, launch providers, removal craft, and regulators around one shared cleanup workflow.
tools and techniques
Dream big, but attach every technique to proof, safety, and governance.
Space Janitor should not bet on one removal mechanism. It should become the software layer that helps the right technique meet the right object, approval path, and provider.
Robotic capture
Arms, fixtures, docking aids, and inspection routines for high-value targets.
Net and tether systems
Low-cost capture concepts for tumbling or non-cooperative debris where precision docking is not practical.
Drag augmentation
Sails, balloons, and deployable surfaces that accelerate decay for objects already low enough to reenter safely.
Laser nudging
Ground or orbital impulse concepts for small debris tracking, avoidance shaping, or controlled decay research.
Servicer swarms
Coordinated fleets that inspect, tag, move, or shepherd many objects instead of treating each mission as bespoke.
Material recovery
Long-range reuse concepts where spent objects become feedstock, shielding, structures, or fuel-chain inputs.
coordination platform
The ambitious product is not one spacecraft. It is the mission market around every spacecraft.
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Cleanup target registry
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Provider capability graph
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Autonomy simulation lab
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Mission risk ledger
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Regulatory clearance workflow
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Insurance and liability model
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On-orbit task marketplace
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Post-cleanup verification record
Mission control model
human accountable autonomy
Never move debris without a verified disposal path.
Prioritize objects whose removal lowers systemic risk, not just visible clutter.
Keep humans accountable while automation does the heavy planning work.
Treat cleanup as infrastructure, insurance, safety, and diplomacy at the same time.
Build tools that make a mission easier to approve before they make it easier to execute.
governance first
The tool has to make cleanup legible before it makes cleanup fast.
Ambitious cleanup only works if target rights, liability, deorbit safety, environmental impact, and mission verification are built into the workflow from the start.
Observe
Keep the orbital state current enough for cleanup decisions, not just dashboard views.
Coordinate
Turn a crowded field of stakeholders into a sequenced mission plan with owners and evidence.
Maintain
Make removal, verification, and orbital upkeep a normal operating function instead of a rare emergency.
the far plan