Jackal

Jackal is True Anomaly’s autonomous orbital vehicle (AOV) – a highly maneuverable, payload-agnostic, low-cost spacecraft designed to set the performance benchmark for space superiority. Engineered with a modular structure and rapid-fit mission hardpoints, Jackal supports a wide range of payloads and mission profiles. Its high-performance propulsion stack and hardened software backbone (Mosaic) deliver unmatched agility, autonomy, and maneuverability, built from the ground up for highly dynamic space superiority missions across any contested orbital environment.

Jackal is designed to transform mission tactics into on-orbit support through a multi-modal sensor suite, modular payload configuration, and advanced maneuvering capabilities. It supports on-orbit range testing (safely testing orbital tactics, techniques, and procedures with live spacecraft, sensors, and payloads), an AI co-pilot for mission planning and simulation, and ISR missions via live rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO).

All Jackals in LEO and beyond feature a high-maneuverability propulsion stack: a high-performance 20-thruster configuration and a large propellant tank in an ESPA-Grande form factor, designed for precision high-cadence, high-thrust, high delta-v maneuvering. They also feature an integrated multi-spectral RPO suite powered by Mosaic for autonomous long-range detection and tracking through close-range imaging in all lighting conditions; multiple mission hardpoints to host a wide range of sensors and payloads for custom, multi-role configurations; and high-rate manufacturability for rapid production and constellation refresh.

For missions in geosynchronous orbit (GEO), Jackal builds on the baseline platform with structural shielding for improved radiation protection and thermal control, radiation-tolerant electronics for critical system redundancy, increased system redundancy in a small package, up-rated modular mission hardpoints supporting payloads up to 200 kg, and an upgraded Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) system for high-accuracy positioning and mission-critical timing.

For Cislunar missions, Jackal expands on its GEO capabilities with deep-space communications systems for high-bandwidth, attitude-independent data transfer across lunar transfer orbits and Lagrange points; expanded power generation and storage capacity for larger, energy-intensive mission packages; improved PNT capabilities tuned for degraded terrestrial signal environments; and advanced thermal management engineered for extreme temperature deltas including prolonged lunar eclipse conditions.

Jackal is designed, built, and tested in the USA at True Anomaly’s GravityWorks Colorado and GravityWorks California facilities, which together deliver 90,000 sq. ft. of spacecraft manufacturing capacity. Jackal is the platform underpinning the U.S. Space Force’s $1.8B Andromeda IDIQ contract (Geosynchronous Reconnaissance and Surveillance Constellation) and the VICTUS HAZE Tactically Responsive Space demonstration.