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Ansys software offers precise orbit determination and collision analysis, enhancing data quality through tracking system simulations across various assets.

Protecting Space Missions Today and in the Future

With space becoming increasingly crowded, it will only become more important to ensure that spacecraft can safely navigate this environment. Learn how engineers can use Ansys software solutions to detect and assess potential collisions in space by tracking space objects, characterizing their maneuvers, and evaluating the degree of risk.
  • Safeguard Operational Integrity

    The growing congestion of satellites and debris makes space situational awareness (SSA) and space domain awareness (SDA) essential for ensuring mission safety in the space industry.
  • Enable Flexible and Comprehensive On-Orbit Maneuverability and Servicing

    Modern space missions require flexibility for satellite adaptability, collision avoidance, and extended lifespan through ISAM operations, benefiting both commercial and defense sectors.
  • Develop Dependable Radion-Hardened (Rad Hard) Electronics

    Data analysis and Ansys software enhance space safety by ensuring situational awareness, maneuverability, and reliability of electronics against harsh conditions in increasingly congested orbits.

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Solutions to Solve Mission Challenges

Whether you're building satellites for Earth observation, global communications, or deep space navigation, designing assets that can withstand the harsh space environment is non-negotiable. Ansys brings a powerful, integrated suite of multiphysics tools to help you engineer smarter, faster, and with confidence.

ODTK: Operationally Proven Orbit Determination Solution

ODTK offers precise orbit estimates throughout the mission life cycle, from design to operations. It enables cost-effective tracking simulations, customized reporting, and visualizations. With advanced filtering and automation features, ODTK enhances operator workflows and integration into larger systems, ensuring mission requirements are met.
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Electronics Lifetime and Reliability

Ensuring PCB reliability while reducing the design cycle and adhering to standards such as IPC-TR-579, IPC 9704, SAE J3168, MIL, and JESD-22 is essential.
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Electromagnetic & RF System Design

Design a thermal control system for satellites, considering subsystem interdependencies and environmental heat loads, while conducting simulations to analyze temperature behavior over time.
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RadHard Design Workflow

Electronics are vulnerable to natural and man-made radiation, causing degradation, noise, damage, shutdowns, and power failure. Rad Hard design qualification takes years due to lengthy testing cycles.
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Surface Charging Risk Assessment

Electrostatic discharge risks rise in space and dusty environments, causing concerns with arcing in solar cells, material degradation, and communication disruptions.
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Radiation Hardening

Space radiation from protons, electrons, and ions can damage electronics, leading to malfunctions or permanent damage. Key threats include SEE, TID, EMI, thermal effects, and solar events.
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Maneuver Detection and Threat Assessment

Develop and validate efficient flight trajectory solutions for spacecraft across various orbits, optimizing costs and analyzing impacts on subsystems promptly.
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On-Orbit Servicing

Satellites require frequent maneuvers to maintain orbits, addressing perturbing forces like drag and solar radiation pressure to ensure optimal operational lifetime and effectiveness.
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Modeling and simulation software has reduced the time required for design and testing by more than 30%, and (we are) currently targeting a reduction of more than 50%, which is expected to have a positive impact on the development schedule going forward. ”

— Kyung Ryeung Min, Founder and CEO, Space & Bean

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Featured Ansys products and collections for protecting your assets

Plan smarter missions with tools that simulate trajectories, optimize tracking, and connect design to real-time operations—all in one streamlined workflow.

Ansys Systems Tool Kit (STK)

Design and simulate space missions in a 3D, physics-based environment. Plan complex trajectories, model constellations, analyze coverage, and evaluate mission trade-offs in real time.

Ansys Orbit Determination Tool Kit (ODTK)

ODTK helps you maintain mission accuracy by processing real-world tracking data, estimating spacecraft position and velocity, analyzing uncertainty, and optimizing tracking strategies.

Ansys EMC Plus

Ansys EMC Plus is an advanced simulation tool for analyzing and mitigating electromagnetic interference (EMI) and ensuring electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) in electronic systems, helping engineers identify and resolve potential compliance issues early in the design process.

Ansys Sherlock

Ansys Sherlock is a reliability physics-based simulation tool that predicts the lifespan and failure risks of electronic hardware by analyzing how real-world conditions like vibration, temperature, and mechanical stress affect components over time—enabling more durable and resilient product designs.