Operators

Kinds of operators

• Satellite Operator

  Operators of GEO/LEO, EO/data and constellation spacecraft fleets.

• Air Operator

  Airlines and UAS operators flying crewed and uncrewed fleets.

• Maritime Operator

  Commercial shipping and maritime fleet operators.

What you will work with

The kinds of record every product here lets operators define, link and report on — the ones Data Domain marks as essential for this kind of organisation.

• KPI

  Quantified performance indicator tracked over time.

• Maintenance

  Activities that keep an asset or service performing to required standards through its life.

• Materiel

  Physical inventory and supplies for delivery/ops.

• Mission

  Enduring purpose and top-level goals of the program.

• Schedule

  Time-phased plan of tasks, durations, dependencies.

• Standard

  External normative reference to comply with

• Verification

  Operational specifics of Verification encompassing concrete activities like executing test cases, conducting inspections, and performing analyses to gather and document evidence that the system meets its requirements as outlined in the project specifications.

• Procedure

  Step-by-step instructions

  For Air Operator and Maritime Operator

• Regulation

  Legally binding rule from an authority.

  For Air Operator and Maritime Operator

• CONOPS

  Concept of Operations

  For Satellite Operator

• Configuration

  Specific, controlled arrangement/version of system elements.

  For Satellite Operator

• Readiness

  Degree to which resources, systems, or teams are prepared to perform as required.

  For Air Operator

• Supply Chain

  Operational specifics of Supply Chain involving concrete activities like order processing, shipment tracking, supplier relationship management, and quality control measures that ensure timely delivery and product integrity.

  For Maritime Operator

• Validation

  Operational specifics of Validation focusing on concrete activities such as conducting user acceptance testing, gathering user feedback, and analyzing operational data to confirm that the system consistently meets defined user needs during actual use.

  For Satellite Operator

Demos for Operators

• Space-based Earth observation

  Multispectral Earth-observation constellation

  Operators · WeProject.ai · SMAT-AI

• Rotary-wing transport

  Cargo helicopter

  Operators · WeProject.ai

• Geostationary communications

  Launch to GEO: GTO transfer and drift to the orbital slot

  Operators · WeProject.ai · SMAT-AI

What each product does for you

• WeProject.ai

  AI-native MBSE & programme management.

  • Satellite OperatorRun constellation programs with requirements tied to service levels.
  • Air OperatorManage fleet and UAS programs with compliance traceability.
  • Maritime OperatorRun fleet programs with maintenance and compliance traced.

• SMAT-AI

  Space Mission Analysis Tool with an AI co-pilot.

  • Satellite OperatorPlan coverage, avoid collisions, protect fleet uptime.
  • Air OperatorPlan SATCOM and surveillance coverage along your routes.
  • Maritime OperatorCheck satellite coverage and tracking across shipping lanes.

• Aerospace Academy

  Aerospace & defence training simulators, courses, and assessments.

  • Satellite OperatorCertify operators on station-keeping and contingency response.
  • Air OperatorTrain crews and operators on mission and safety systems.
  • Maritime OperatorTrain crews on navigation, comms, and domain awareness.

• Data Domain

  Reference & ontology SSOT.

  • Satellite OperatorTrusted catalog of orbits, ground stations, and assets.
  • Air OperatorOne reference for airframes, routes, and airspace.
  • Maritime OperatorAuthoritative reference for vessels, ports, and lanes.

• Supremacy

  Intelligence & R&D · see the gap first.

  • Satellite OperatorSpot constellation rivals and open market gaps.
  • Air OperatorTrack route competition and emerging UAS players.
  • Maritime OperatorWatch lane competition and fleet movements.

Who works here

17 roles Data Domain expects across these organisations — the people a rollout has to carry.

Training briefs

Each brief covers the challenge, what the platform does about it and the training involved. They live on Academy — public, no sign-in.

• Satellite Operator

  Train operators on real spacecraft scenarios, not slideware.Spacecraft operators need pattern recognition. They need to have seen enough anomalies, eclipse cycles, attitude drifts, and ground-segment failures to react correctly when something rare happens at 3am. Classroom slides cannot build that. Real fleet time is too expensive to use as a training environment.Scenario · Resolve an unexpected attitude drift and recover the safe-mode satellite

• GEO Satellite Operator

  Train your GEO control room today. Build the bench for LEO and MEO tomorrow.GEO operators run a stable, cash-generating business on assets designed for 15+ years on-orbit. But the commercial model is shifting — LEO broadband constellations, MEO PNT and data-relay layers, and hybrid GEO+LEO service offerings are now the direction of travel. The operators who win the next decade will be the ones whose control rooms can absorb new orbit regimes without hiring a second control room. That means cross-training today, not after the first LEO contract is signed.Scenario · Plan and execute a routine N/S station-keeping burn inside the longitude box at GEO

• LEO Satellite Operator

  Run hundreds of passes a day without running your operators into the ground.LEO constellations invert the operational model every control-room was built for. Instead of one geosynchronous slot kept perfectly still, you run hundreds of platforms through hundreds of short ground passes every day. Conjunction rates are high, ground-station scheduling is the bottleneck, inter-satellite links change topology every minute, and automation does most of the flying. Training that evolved around GEO station-keeping misses the operational tempo LEO demands.Scenario · Plan a 24-hour pass schedule across a 30-station ground network serving a 120-satellite fleet

• CubeSat Operator

  Fly a 6U demonstrator like it matters — because it does.CubeSats are no longer classroom curiosities — they are the first flight asset for most new space programmes, the fastest path to qualifying a payload, and the training ground where tomorrow's mission leaders learn what on-orbit operations actually feels like. But the talent bench is thin: many teams have one senior operator who has flown a mission and a half-dozen students who have never commanded a satellite. The mission cadence does not wait for that gap to close on its own.Scenario · Walk a new operator from launch-vehicle separation through LEOP to commissioning on a 6U Earth-observation demonstrator

• Satellite Operator: brief available
• Air Operator: no brief yet
• Maritime Operator: no brief yet

No brief yet for Air Operator and Maritime Operator — the products cover them; the training brief does not exist in the corpus today.