● MISSION
● WHY
The orbital environment is congesting faster than the systems built to manage it were designed to handle. SatNews and World Economic Forum analysis estimates $42.3 billion in ten-year industry cost from unmanaged orbital congestion.[1] ESA projects the active object count growing from 6,000 today to 75,000 by 2030. The gap is not in tracking — UDL and similar catalogs track objects with increasing precision. The gap is in the decision layer.
When a conjunction alert fires, an operator makes a decision. That decision is the most consequential act in spaceflight after launch. But today that decision is unstructured, unsigned, and unqueryable. It exists in an email thread, a chat log, a spreadsheet. It cannot be audited. It cannot be learned from at fleet scale. It cannot be read by an underwriter, a regulator, or the autonomous system that will eventually replace the operator.
The EU AI Act Article 12 framework mandates traceability for high-risk AI systems.[2]As autonomous orbital decision systems come online, the signed decision record becomes the legal substrate of compliance. SCALOS builds that substrate now — before the regulatory deadline — so operators are ready rather than reactive.
● WHAT WE DO
SCALOS captures the four-tuple at the heart of every orbital decision: the situation (the objective state — TCA, Pc, covariance), the rationale (the operator's stated reason for acting or not acting), the action (the command issued or the decision to hold), and the attestation (timestamp and cryptographic signature).
DECISION RECORD SCHEMA v2.1
These records accumulate into a corpus. The corpus becomes the Fleet Operational Risk Assessment — a structured profile readable by underwriters, auditable by regulators, and learnable by autonomous systems. Decisions that were previously invisible become infrastructure.
● FOUNDERS
CEO · CO-FOUNDER
Zain leads SCALOS strategy, product, and commercial development. His focus is on the intersection of autonomous systems, orbital operations, and institutional trust infrastructure. Prior experience spans aerospace product development and defense-adjacent technology ventures.
CTO · CO-FOUNDER
Technical lead on the Epitropos architecture, the physics engine, and the Ed25519 attestation layer. Background in distributed systems and applied cryptography. Prior work includes flight-dynamics tooling and on-orbit software integration.
● HIRING
If you have flight-dynamics, distributed-systems, or applied-cryptography experience and you are interested in the operational substrate underneath orbital autonomy, contact us.
HIRING@SCALOS.CO →[1] SatNews / World Economic Forum, Space Economy Analysis, 2024.
[2] EU AI Act, Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 12 — Record-keeping for high-risk AI systems.