Locus

Autonomous decision-making for satellite operations.

The control plane that decides and acts when systems drift from plan. Reasons under uncertainty. Executes across vendors. Escalates only when required.

Not monitoring. Not automation. Decision ownership.

Modern satellite operations fail at scale because judgment does not scale.

Locus replaces ad-hoc human triage with a system that is consistent, explainable, and bounded by operator intent.

01 — Function

Locus continuously answers one question.

"Given everything we know right now, what should happen next?"

It evaluates competing actions.

It accounts for risk, history, and uncertainty.

It executes the best option — or refuses to act.

02 — Definition

What Locus
is not.

Locus is not a dashboard.

It does not visualize telemetry.

It does not schedule tasks.

It does not encode static workflows.

It does not recommend actions and walk away.

Those systems already exist.

They avoid responsibility.

03 — Core Claim

Humans define constraints.
Locus determines behavior.

Operators specify boundaries — safety, cost, trust, authority. Locus reasons inside those boundaries and decides what to do.

No scripts. No runbooks. No brittle logic trees.
Candidate actions
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04 — Constraints

Constraints,
not rules.

Rules describe what to do.

Constraints describe what must not be violated.

Rules break under novelty.

Constraints scale under uncertainty.

Locus operates strictly within operator-defined constraints and chooses actions dynamically as reality changes.

05 — Autonomy

Autonomy,
precisely defined.

Locus is autonomous by default — not absolute.

It acts independently when confidence is sufficient.

It escalates when uncertainty rises.

It explains every decision it makes.

Escalation is not failure.

It is a deliberate control boundary.

06 — Execution

Locus does not stop
at analysis.

It executes decisions directly across ground networks and cloud infrastructure.

It retries, reroutes, defers, or halts actions based on current conditions.

It records outcomes and incorporates them into future decisions.

Every action is intentional.

Every action is attributable.

07 — Memory

Locus remembers.

Memory is not a log.

Past decisions.

Past failures.

Operator overrides.

Infrastructure behavior.

Judgment improves because experience accumulates.

08 — Position

Where Locus sits.

Above execution systems. Below human authority.

It does not replace mission control.

It replaces manual judgment loops scattered across tools, people, and spreadsheets.

09 — Inevitability

Why this exists.

Satellite systems scaled.

Operations did not.

Decision volume increases non-linearly.

Human attention does not.

At scale, the absence of a decision layer becomes the primary failure mode.

Locus exists because this gap cannot be closed manually.

10 — Live

Live demonstration.

Locus operating a simulated constellation in real time.

Nothing here is a recommendation.

Everything here is owned.

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How Locus Thinks

Locus runs as a continuous decision loop. At each step, it evaluates the current state of the constellation and decides whether an operational action is required.

What Triggers a Decision

  • • A satellite approaching a ground contact window
  • • A scheduled downlink attempt fails
  • • A ground station becomes unavailable
  • • Resources are contended

What Locus Decides

  • • Which ground station to use
  • • Whether to retry a failed downlink
  • • Whether to skip and wait
  • • Whether to escalate to a human

How Authority Works

After ranking options, Locus evaluates confidence based on data freshness, recent behavior, and novelty. If one action clearly dominates, it executes. Otherwise, it escalates to human authority.

Constraints vs. Rules

Rules specify actions. Constraints specify boundaries. Locus operates within constraints, selecting the best action for current conditions.

  • "Do not use degraded stations without approval."
  • "Avoid irreversible actions without redundancy."

The live demo shows Locus operating a simulated satellite constellation in real time, making and executing decisions autonomously.

Operations are becoming too complex to be managed reactively.

Systems that matter require software that can decide responsibly.

Locus is that layer.