Lodestar

Lodestar develops a protect and defend capability for high-value space assets in orbit. The company provides an end-to-end, autonomous in-space bodyguarding service built around its flagship product, MITHRIL. This offering is a hardware-agnostic autonomy software suite designed to integrate with spacecraft and provide off-the-shelf platforms with the capacity to autonomously detect, characterise, and reversibly neutralise orbital threats.

To power these operations, Lodestar applies artificial intelligence and machine learning within its core software architecture. The company builds state estimation and prediction models that fuse probabilistic estimation with machine learning to track targets, forecast trajectories, and assess behavioural intent. Its engineering work involves implementing classical and neural estimators, building neural models for real-time dynamic target tracking, and integrating these systems into mission simulation environments and on-board autonomy decision frameworks.