Hyperios Pharos Launch Detection System
Hyperios Technologies
Automatic real-time detection and characterization of rocket launches, ballistic missiles, and spacecraft re-entries via ionospheric disturbance sensing — near-global coverage, no additional hardware required.
Technical specifications
- Detection capability
- Rocket launches, ballistic missiles, spacecraft re-entries, supersonic objects
- Coverage
- Near-global
- Sensing technology
- Ionospheric disturbance sensing across distributed networks
- Additional hardware required
- None — leverages existing sensor infrastructure
- Ai approach
- Physics-aware AI, multimodal sensor data fusion
- Integration targets
- C2 systems, Space Defense Architecture, Ballistic Missile Defense
- Vleo sda
- Coming soon — real-time tracking, orbital characterization, predictive modeling
About
Pharos is Hyperios Technologies’ flagship space domain awareness product, providing automatic, real-time detection and characterization of supersonic objects in the upper atmosphere using ionospheric disturbance sensing across distributed sensor networks. The system requires no additional hardware — it maximizes value from existing sensor infrastructure already in place — and achieves near-global coverage for detecting rocket launches, ballistic missile events, and spacecraft re-entries.
Built on physics-aware AI, Pharos synthesizes multimodal sensor data to not just detect but characterize events: type classification, trajectory estimation, and threat severity scoring. The system integrates directly with Command & Control systems, Space Defense Architecture, and Ballistic Missile Defense systems, providing actionable intelligence within the decision timelines required for space domain awareness and missile warning applications.
A companion platform targets Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) space domain awareness, with real-time object tracking, orbital characterization, physics-aware predictive modeling, and sensor fusion — currently in development. Hyperios (formerly Ensemble Space Labs) is headquartered in Hyattsville, Maryland, USA, and has participated in MassChallenge, CDL, and Capital Factory accelerator programs.
Documentation
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