Given the lack of regulation of space traffic and the increase in active satellites, Aldoria is introducing innovative technologies to protect critical space resources and assets.
Aldoria is the old Latin name of the Pleiades cluster, but now also the new name of Share My Space. The French startup, winner of the first edition of the France 2030 program, used its recent fundraising of 10 million euros to change its identity and reaffirm its ambition to become the European leader in space security by providing operators via the danger of a collision between them advises thousands of orbital objects.
40,000 active satellites by 2030
The space environment, essential to many critical functions on Earth, including communications, navigation and climate monitoring, must actually be protected from the harmful effects of space debris and other threats. But from the current 9,000, the number of active satellites in low orbit is expected to increase to 40,000 by 2030. There could be 1,000 objects orbiting the moon alone. Not counting the more than 30,000 currently identified pieces of space debris larger than 10 cm…
Avoided 30 million connections between space objects
Aldoria integrates data from six optical monitoring stations on four continents to provide a near real-time, comprehensive understanding of the space environment. Its patented MTOS technology is based on a system of four synchronously rotating telescopes located at the same observation location. Their rotation speed is coordinated with the transit time of objects in the field of view to ensure the detection of all space objects even at low altitudes of up to 300 kilometers. Thanks to this, in 2023, Aldoria's orbital information system generated 230,000 independent measurements on 5,000 objects and expected 30 million connections between space objects.