Field note · Free download
Why maritime domain awareness needs an orbital ISR layer.
Today's maritime surveillance is too slow, too fragmented, and too easy to evade. This field note lays out the gap — and how sovereign, AI-powered microsatellite fleets close it. One page. No fluff.
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01 — What's inside
A briefing you can read in five minutes and act on in one meeting.
Wide-area coverage
Monitor oceans, EEZs, borders, and critical routes — at a scale patrols and aircraft cannot reach.
Onboard AI
Detect vessels and suspicious activity directly from orbit, not days later on the ground.
Lightweight outputs
Coordinates, timestamps, confidence scores, alert types, and image chips — not raw imagery to sift.
Sovereign intelligence
Customer-owned or partner-enabled orbital ISR for allied users. Your data, your control.
Faster decision cycles
Less delay from collection to action. Awareness that arrives while it still matters.
Integration ready
Feed detections via API and secure data feeds into existing dashboards and C2 / C4ISR workflows.
02 — How it works
Detection to action, in near real-time.
The field note explains the full chain: AI-powered microsatellites detect maritime activity, process it onboard, and deliver only the relevant intelligence — so the decision happens in minutes, not days.
03 — Who should read it
Built for the people responsible for the water — and those backing them.
Governments & agencies
Sovereign awareness over your EEZ, borders, and ports — owned and controlled, not rented from a foreign feed.
Defence & military
Persistent ISR and dark-vessel detection, delivered in formats your C2 / C4ISR stack already speaks.
Investors
A new orbital ISR category with clear mission demand, a credentialed team, and early commercial traction.
04 — The stakes
Most of what moves at sea goes unseen.
$150bn
annual economic losses from illicit activity in national waters
$36bn
annual loss from illegal fishing
20%
of oil tankers suspected to be dark vessels
361M km²
of ocean, and almost none of it watched in real time
The field note connects each gap to a consequence — and to the capability that closes it.
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Plasma Orbital
Atlas Fleet — AI-powered maritime ISR from orbit.
Plasma Orbital is a UK-based space company building sovereign AI-microsatellite fleets for persistent maritime ISR. The system detects vessels and suspicious activity from orbit, processes it onboard, and delivers lightweight intelligence to defence, government, and maritime-security users. Founded by Leo Pauly (PhD, CEO) and Grace Samosir (COO). Currently at prototype and early-demonstration stage, with partner discussions and early commercial traction underway.
Maritime awareness. Faster intelligence. Better decisions.