Research & Development

On the LunaH-Map mission, KinetX succesfully demonstrated that its onboard software could autonomously correct raw images, estimate the inertial camera orientation using visible stars, compute the astrometric centers of planetary targets in the field, and compute offsets relative to the spacecraft state. Each of these measurements are critical to performing autonomous navigation with onboard images, without the intervention from operators on Earth. Optical navigation algorithms like the one demonstrated on LunaH-Map, and ongoing advances made by KinetX, will be important for future small spacecraft to perform operations in deep space, given their minimal communications resources.

KDEVS is KinetX, Inc.’s simulation and software development environment integrates astrodynamics packages such as SPICE, GMAT, STK, Orekit.

• Constellation and orbital mission design

• Discrete event simulation

• Large scale simulation and trade studies on Amazon or other cluster environments

• Virtual machine environment based with support for Linux, PC and Mac

Successfully used on:

• NorthStar (systems engineering, trade studies)

• OneWeb (ground site design)

• BAMS (embedded data recorder software)

Based on patented KinetX inductive engine, unstructured data is analyzed using both context and keywords to innovate and develop new ideas.

This has been used to develop the PDF-Miner which is now used in the development of Proposals.