Nauti Escort
Finally, an Escort you can take home to mission control!
Nauti Escort is designed to give spacecraft access to capabilities they may not have onboard, may not have enough of, or may only need during certain mission phases.
It can launch with a customer asset, rendezvous with an asset already in orbit, or operate as part of a future orbital support network.
A spacecraft that supports other spacecraft
Nauti Escort is a self-sufficient in-space vehicle. It carries its own propulsion, guidance and control, communications, power, thermal management, avionics, and mission operations interface.
Its job is to support other orbital assets.
Those assets could be satellites, hosted payload platforms, crewed space station modules, free-flying manufacturing platforms, logistics vehicles, or other spacecraft. Nauti Escort provides the mobility and operational support that the customer asset cannot affordably provide by itself.
The customer focuses on the mission. Nauti Escort handles the support functions around it.
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Payload Adapter
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Single Escort providing Mobility & Utilization to up to 20 payloads.
Payloads
Single Escort providing performing robotic servicing mission.
Robotic Appenage
Dual Escorts providing Mobility and Utilization to a large-class payload, such as a crewed, space station module or commercial data center.
Multi-Escorts providing orbital infrastructure to a large-class payload such as a crewed, space station or commercial data center.
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What Nauti Escort Provides
Repositioning & Maneuvering Execution
End-of-Life/-Mission Relocation & Disposal
Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, & Docking (RPOD)
Orbital Insertion /
Last-Mile Delivery
Mobility
Lifetime Extension
Orbital Replacement Units (ORUs) & Upgrades
Refueling Operations
Visual & Robotic Inspection, Diagnostics, & Servicing
On-Orbit Servicing
Pointing / Attitude Control
Propellant Transfer
Communications; Data Storage, Processing, Encryption, & Relay
Power & Thermal Provisions
Utiliziation
Capabilities
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
Not just a tug or a bus
Nauti Escort sits between several existing spacecraft categories.
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A traditional satellite bus is usually dedicated to one payload.
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A tug usually moves a payload from one orbit to another.
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A servicing vehicle may inspect, repair, refuel, or manipulate a target.
Nauti Escort is designed to combine the most useful parts of these categories into one 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.
