OKAPI:Orbits

OKAPI:Orbits sells collision avoidance as software. A satellite operator receives a stream of conjunction warnings, most of them false alarms, and has to decide which are worth burning propellant to avoid. OKAPI's service ingests the warnings and the orbits, computes the real risk, and recommends the manoeuvre, and its Astrolabe product extends that to coordination between operators, so two spacecraft do not dodge into each other.

It spun out of TU Braunschweig in 2018, from a group that had spent years modelling the debris environment. That lineage shows in its work: ESA contracted it in 2025 to help rebuild MASTER, the reference model of the debris population that European missions design against, and again in 2026 to connect space traffic management with air traffic control.

It owns no sensors, which is the structural fact of the business: the radar and telescope data comes from others, and OKAPI competes on what it computes from it. Its funding is honest about its stage, a seed round in 2022 and a second, larger seed in 2025 rather than an inflated Series A, and its self-reported figure of fifty-plus spacecraft supported has no independent confirmation. The customers that can be verified are institutional, ESA above all, in a field where the paying commercial market is still forming.