Finally, an Escort you can bring home to mission control.
NAUTI ESCORT
A spacecraft that supports other spacecraft
Nauti Escort is a self-sufficient in-space vehicle that carries propulsion, guidance, control, communications, power, thermal management, avionics, and a mission interface. Its role is to support other orbital assets like satellites, payload platforms, space station modules, manufacturing platforms, logistics vehicles, or spacecraft. Nauti Escort offers mobility and operational support that these assets cannot affordably provide on their own.
The customer focuses on the mission.
Nauti Escort handles the support functions around it.
INFRASTRUCTURE ECOSYSTEM & THE NAUTI ESCORT
SERVICES
Mobility
- Orbital Insertion & Last-Mile Delivery
- Repositioning & Maneuvering Execution
- End-of-Life/-Mission Relocation & Disposal
- Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, & Docking (RPOD)
On-Orbit Servicing
- Visual & Robotic Inspection, Diagnostics, & Servicing
- Lifetime Extension
- Orbital Replacement Units (ORUs) & Upgrades
- Refueling Operations
Utilization
- Power Provision
- Thermal Management
- Communications & Data Relay
- Pointing / Attitude Control
- Data Storage, Processing, & Encryption
- Propellant Transfer
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
Not just a tug or a bus
Nauti Escort is positioned among various spacecraft categories and is designed to merge its most useful features into a single modular support vehicle.
Differentiators
It can stay with the asset
Escort can support a customer through more than one mission phase instead of only providing a one-time transfer.
It separates payload control from vehicle control
Payload operators can request services without directly commanding propulsion or GNC.
It is designed to scale
The architecture supports different configurations, docking interfaces, and multiple Escort vehicles for higher-capability/ assurance missions.
It supports the full mission lifecycle
Escort can help from deployment through operations and end-of-life.
CAPABILITIES
Orbits
LEO, MEO, GEO cislunar, and beyond
Payload Volume
Support a large, single payload or many, smaller profile payloads
Single Escort
<180-240 cubic meters*
Dual Escort
<150-240 cubic meters*
Triple Escort
<120-240 cubic meters*
* Range depends on if payload is launched co-manifested with the Escort
Delta-V
Scalable Delta-V to meet any payload class and mission needs
Single Escort
360-2800 meters/second
Dual Escort
356-3200 meters/second
Triple Escort
370-3400 meters/second
Attitude
Control
x4 Dual-Gimbal Control Movement Gyros (CMGs)
Pointing Accuracy
<10 arcseconds (1σ)
Slew Rate
> 1°/sec via CMGs
5°/sec via RCS thrusters
Jitter
2 arcsec/sec over 1.0 seconds
Comms &
Data
Secure & Isolated Data and Communications
Data Interfaces
Ethernet (1000BASE-T), RS-422
Downlink
4 Mbps down (X-band)
Uplink
Ethernet (1000BASE-T), RS-422
Lifetime
Medium lifetime to support most missions while building with a future logistics network in mind
Lifetime
8 years / Escort w/o EVA/EVR Servicing
Payload
Capacity
Scale up to any payload mass by stacking multiple Nauti Escorts
Single Escort
<20,000 kilograms
Dual Escort
<40,000 kilograms
Triple Escort
<60,000 kilograms
Payload
Interface
Option to leverage the standard Escort docking interface or ESPA-custom interfaces via a payload adapter. The Nauti Escort offers the following at its forward and aft docking interfaces:
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Redundant Power (28V)
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Mechanical Heat Paths
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Redundant, Isolated Data via Ethernet (1000BASE-T), RS-422
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Propulsion Pressurant
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Propulsion Fuel
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Propulsion Oxidizer
Propulsion
Powerful and precise translation & attitude control
Propellant
MMH/MON-3
Thrust
x6 5,000 lbf Main Engine
x4 RCS quad-thrusters
Power
Provisioning for payload keep-alive, mission support and servicing
Single Escort
2000 Watts OAP (EOL) (28V unregulated)
Dual Escort
4000 Watts OAP (EOL) (28V unregulated)
Triple Escort
6000 Watts OAP (EOL) (28V unregulated)
Redundancy
Redundancy is carefully planned to enable scalable mission assurance through the stacking of multiple escorts
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Single Fault Tolerant Systems
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Dual Fault Tolerant Systems
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Mission & Non-Safety Critical Flight Functions
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Safety Critical Functions
Human Rating Assurance is achieved via a minimum of two (2) Nauti Escorts
Launch
Compatibility
Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, Starship, Terran R, New Glenn, Vulcan, Neutron, Eclipse, Ariane 6, H3
Launch Vehicle compatibility depends on multi-Escort stacking needs
