"She recalled that every time she would pitch an idea to her last employer, she was met with resistance. "The response was the same, 'if it hasn't flown already, we're not using it on our satellite,'" she recalled. "We were told to innovate, but they refused to adopt anything unproven ... I was hired to be an 'innovator' inside a corporate giant, but in reality I was being told 'not too much.'""
"Cefalo said that nearly 15% of spacecraft experience some type of anomaly or failure due to manufacturers' misunderstanding of what space is actually like. "Ground simulations can only model so much. The real environment is more complex and every orbital regime is different," she said. For example, what might work in a low orbit won't necessarily work in deep space."
Bianca Cefalo left corporate aviation and founded Space DOTS in 2022 to detect space threats. Her team developed SKY-I, a software platform for space manufacturers and operators to detect, interpret, and attribute natural and human-originated orbital threats. Cefalo previously worked on lunar, Mars, and satellite missions and experienced corporate resistance to unproven innovations. She estimates nearly 15% of spacecraft encounter anomalies or failures due to manufacturers' misunderstandings of the space environment. Ground simulations model only part of reality; orbital regimes differ and factors like radiation can cause failures. Space DOTS generates proprietary data to close observational gaps and improve anomaly attribution.
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