Areté and Turion Space Partner for Advanced Space Domain Awareness

September 26, 2025
Areté and Turion Space have announced a partnership to deploy Areté's next-generation event camera on a Turion spacecraft, enhancing Space Domain Awareness capabilities.

Areté and Turion Space have announced a partnership to fly Areté's next-generation event camera on a Turion DROID.alpha™ spacecraft as a hosted payload, scheduled for launch in 2027. This collaboration supports the Air Force Research Laboratory's initiative to develop a next-generation star-tracker and aims to provide a critical capability for a future Space Domain Awareness Optical Fence in low Earth orbit, announced in a press release.

The innovative sensor technology from Areté automatically detects changes in each pixel in parallel, allowing imaging up to 10,000 frames per second while significantly reducing power and data bandwidth requirements. These reductions are crucial for hyper-temporal imaging on orbit, enabling new sensing modalities not possible with traditional cameras.

Integrated with Turion's Starfire™ platform for mission control, automated tasking, and AI-powered data products, the Areté payload will deliver autonomous, edge-processed observations to end users with minimal latency. This combination enhances both tactical responsiveness and strategic Space Domain Awareness coverage across low Earth orbit.

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