Find the world.
Before anything is engineered, it is found and graded. We survey candidate worlds, characterize what they are made of, and score them on a single index. The satellite business is the eyes of the program.
Two search fronts.
Exoplanet survey
- Transit photometry
- Detect worlds by the dimming of their star.
- Radial velocity
- Weigh worlds by the wobble they induce.
- Direct imaging
- Resolve worlds against starlight, optically.
In-system prospecting
- Near-Earth objects
- Resource-bearing asteroids in reach.
- Lunar PSRs
- Permanently shadowed regions and their ice.
- Mars & icy moons
- Surface, subsurface, and volatile targets.
Know it before you touch it.
Spectroscopy
Atmospheric and surface composition from spectral signature.
Volatile & water mapping
Locate and quantify ice, water, and mobile volatiles.
Biosignature & technosignature
Search for the chemistry of life — and of others.
Geology & terrain
Surface morphology, hazards, and constructability.
Every candidate, scored.
A signals-based framework grading candidate worlds on four dimensions, composited into a single development verdict. Scores are illustrative pending the final model.
The satellites are the eyes.
Identification runs on Segal's own EO, SAR, and hyperspectral payloads in orbit, extended by deep-space observatories. The same sensors that watch Earth survey the worlds beyond it.
Catalog and plan in the Orbital Foundry.
Candidate worlds, survey targets, and mission plans are cataloged and sequenced in the Orbital Foundry — the same console that plans every Segal mission.