Final Proximity
Sustainability for Space
About Us
Final Proximity provides real-time and onboard autonomy solutions tailored for both space servicing and interplanetary missions. Our next-generation Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) systems redefine autonomous satellite docking capabilities, tackling even the challenges of uncooperative targets. With a focus on fuel efficiency, robustness, and paramount safety, we set a new standard in space technology. Additionally, Final Proximity showcases versatility by offering both chemical and low-thrust trajectory optimization for interplanetary missions.
We would like to collaborate and work with everyone who is passionate about space.
Technology
In the realm of space servicing missions, Precision Inspection serves a paramount role: to safely approach a client satellite and meticulously inspect it within a stable orbit before executing the final proximity maneuver. Our Formation Flying services, underpinned by this objective, prioritize synchronized movement and positioning of spacecraft.
Precise Formation Flight: Leveraging advanced optimization-based techniques to ensure synchronized and accurate positioning of spacecraft, fundamental for successful inspection and subsequent maneuvers.
Fuel Efficiency: We maximize fuel economy while ensuring seamless coordination between spacecraft via embedded optimization.
Versatile Orbit Capabilities: Whether in circular or elliptic orbits, our expertise guarantees robust formation flying solutions tailored to diverse mission requirements.
1-Precision Inspection and Formation Flying
Navigating through space becomes particularly challenging when faced with the intricate operations of rendezvous and docking. Our expertise lies in executing these maneuvers within the intricate web of constraints, ensuring mission safety, efficiency, and robustness even in the face of uncertainties and potential failures.
Constraints Handling: Managing a myriad of factors, from internal dynamics to external variables, ensuring a successful rendezvous and docking process.
Onboard Implementation: Leveraging advanced onboard systems that autonomously adapt to real-time challenges throughout the mission.
Robustness Assurance: Ensuring resilience to various uncertainties, from sensor and actuator failures to challenges like multiple thrusters, dynamic changes, and external disturbances.
2- Constrained Spacecraft Rendezvous and Docking
In space, the need for meticulous path planning and precise maneuvers becomes paramount. Ensuring our target remains firmly within our sensors' field of view while simultaneously sidestepping harmful sources such as the sun is both a challenge and a necessity. Our services are finely tuned to address these intricacies, offering unparalleled expertise in crafting paths that balance mission objectives with operational constraints.
Dynamic Nonconvexity Handling: We employ advanced techniques to convexify traditionally nonconvex keep-out zones, enabling real-time solution tractability and navigation within complex environments.
Sensor-Specific Solutions: Our approach respects the operational boundaries of sensors, both in terms of their field of view and sensitivities to external light sources, ensuring safety and maximum data collection efficiency.
Keep-Out-Zone: Specialized algorithms are incorporated to prevent interference from powerful external light sources, like the sun, safeguarding sensor functionality and performance.
3-Realtime Attitude Path Planning with Keep Out Zone & Sensor Constraints
Crafting the roadmap for interplanetary travel requires a blend of deep celestial understanding and optimization finesse. With capabilities spanning from handling complex nonconvex constraints to modeling diverse propulsion systems, we ensure your spacecraft's trajectory between celestial bodies is not only feasible but perfectly tuned to your mission's needs.
Complex Constraint Handling: Efficiently managing various nonconvex constraints, guaranteeing a trajectory that is both optimal and achievable.
Diverse Propulsion Modeling: Seamlessly integrating models for both low thrust (electric propulsion) and chemical thrusters, ensuring the trajectory aligns with the propulsion system in use.
Custom Optimization Techniques: Offering a range of optimization tools, from global optimizers like genetic algorithms to local nonlinear optimizers, tailored to client specifications and mission objectives.
4- Constrained Interplanetary Trajectory Optimization
Let’s Talk Space!
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Journey through the remarkable history of space exploration. This section captures humanity's extraordinary progression from the earliest rockets to sophisticated present-day spacecraft. Delve into pivotal moments, legendary missions, and courageous figures that have broadened our horizons and expanded our understanding of the universe.
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Engage with a comprehensive timeline that unravels the intricate planning and execution behind rendezvous and docking operations. From the early conceptualizations to the modern marvels of collaborative efforts in space, you'll get a grasp of the technical intricacies, significant achievements, and the collaborative spirit these operations perfectly match.
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Embark on a captivating journey through the development of missions aimed at distant planets and celestial bodies. From groundbreaking flybys of neighboring planets to daring landings on extraterrestrial surfaces, you'll witness the advancements, innovations, and challenges that have shaped our interplanetary endeavors.
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Explore the critical role of optimization algorithms in space systems. This section highlights the essential design principles and advanced methodologies that enable spacecraft to autonomously execute complex decision-making processes. By integrating state-of-the-art computational tools, these systems are not only efficient in operation but also exceptionally effective in achieving their mission objectives. Discover how onboard optimization algorithms are revolutionizing spacecraft functionality and mission success.
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Space exploration, while inspiring, comes with its share of challenges and setbacks. This segment offers a candid look at some of the rendezvous and docking mission failures, emphasizing how these unfortunate events have offered invaluable lessons, steering future missions towards success and reinforcing the importance of adaptability and resilience.
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Step into the rigorous world of space software development standards set forth by global leaders like ESA and NASA. This section provides a thorough exploration of the stringent principles, best practices, and benchmarks that underscore the safety, reliability, and functionality of software destined for the stars.
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Understand the indispensable processes of verification and validation integral to space systems' success. Venture into the thorough steps, meticulous methodologies, and rigorous testing protocols that play a pivotal role in ensuring every aspect of a space system functions as intended, guaranteeing both its reliability and safety.
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Ground testing stands as the bedrock of space mission preparations. Dive into the intricate tests, detailed simulations, and rigorous evaluations conducted right here on Earth. This section highlights the vital groundwork and preparation ensuring operations like rendezvous and docking achieve their intended goals once they breach our atmosphere and venture into space.
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In the early 1960s, NASA initiated the Gemini program to develop and test crucial spaceflight technologies needed for future lunar missions. The Gemini spacecraft carried two astronauts and was launched by a Titan II booster. Between 1964 and 1966, the program completed ten manned missions and two unmanned missions. The primary objectives included proving rendezvous and docking techniques, extending human endurance in space, and demonstrating the feasibility of extravehicular activity (EVA) or spacewalks.