Persistent, reconfigurable orbital infrastructure for continuity of operations in contested space.
Its infrastructure can’t move, adapt or recover.
Single-mission spacecraft are fixed targets. Lose the satellite, lose the capability, with no path to restore it short of a new launch.
3–7 years to design, procure and integrate. Then a 1–5 year service life.
Once on orbit, mission hardware can’t be swapped, upgraded or retasked as the threat changes.
No forward-positioned supply in orbit. Every replacement starts on the ground.
$30K–$150K per kg per month. A dedicated bus, integration, launch and operations for every mission.
The technology to fix it is ready.
Kinetic ASATs, co-orbital RPO, jamming and cyber make fixed assets liabilities. China’s Shijian-25 appears to have refueled another satellite in GEO in 2025.
Space Force is shifting to resilience, maneuver and Space Mobility & Logistics. Golden Dome and proliferated architectures need capacity faster than traditional acquisition can field it.
Autonomy, RPO and docking, transfer vehicles, optical crosslinks and in-space robotics are ready. Commercial integration is policy, and DoW buys capability as a service.
DARPA’s June 2026 reconstitution RFI asked for payloads restored or refreshed in weeks. This is the architecture that does it.
Rapid deployment. The platform is already commissioned, so new payloads field in months on a one-year integration cycle, not 3–7 years.
Reconfiguration. Robotic module swaps retask, upgrade or scale a platform as the mission or threat changes.
Tech insertion. Today’s standard port accepts tomorrow’s technology. Validate new hardware in real orbital conditions on a 6–18 month timeline.
Defense-grade infrastructure, without the multi-year program.
Pre-positionedSpares, consumables and mission hardware staged on orbit, where they’re needed
Store and forwardPartner transfer vehicles deliver 200 kg modules, each launched independently over the platform’s 15-year life
Dispensed on demandThe robotic arm stages, swaps and hands off hardware to the mission
Back to EarthDownmass and drop-ship of payloads to mission-critical areas
Maneuver without regret: reposition and respond, then refuel and return to station.
SWIS, the Symphony Wireless Interface System, carries power and data across a berthed, pin-free interface. It’s what makes on-orbit swaps routine.
MOSA-alignedAny compliant module from any vendor, with no proprietary adapters
Contactless power and dataRemoves connector wear as a failure mode for repeated swaps
Patent pendingCore design held as a trade secret
The SWIS interface, modules and berthing mechanism, platform architecture and systems engineering, autonomy and mission operations software.
Bus subsystems, avionics, power, propulsion and communications from qualified suppliers. Robotic arm hardware from Orbital Robotics. Debris impact sensing from Odin Space.
Launch from any provider. Orbital transfer and logistics with Astroscale U.S. Cloud and ground with AWS. Compute hosting with Catalyst Data Centers.
Symphony operates the platform. Not the payload, not the tasking, not the product. Every module gets its own isolated data channel, and mission operations stay with the customer.
ITAR/EAR posture documented. CMMC and NIST 800-171 work in progress.
PDRQ3 2026
CDRQ1 2027
Flight model, AIV startQ2 2027
Launch, booked rideshareApr 2028
IP demonstrations completeQ3 2028
PDRQ3 2027
CDRQ4 2027
Build completeQ3 2028
LaunchQ2 2029
Module swaps beginQ1 2030
“Our guardians should train with an actual asset on orbit. I have the mission control and the ground station piece, but I don’t have the on-orbit capacity…”
“Adagio… has a huge amount of potential.”
Space Test Program: moving toward our first OTA; contract vehicle in place
SpaceWERX: Direct-to-Phase-II proposals for Orbital Logistics and orbital warehousing, as prime and as sub
Space Systems Command: modular, scalable approach validated in technical review
Space Force briefed 5×; AFRL OTA discussions; DARPA, DIU, Army and Navy engaged
Navy SBIR Phase I under way on optical inter-satellite links
A Space Force or STP payload on Prelude (April 2028) or Adagio-Mini (December 2028).
Guardians operate a live platform on orbit, using the mission control and ground stations they already have.
Demonstrate an on-orbit module swap and restore under a prototype OT through STP.
Warehousing and depot pathfinders through SpaceWERX Orbital Logistics and Space Mobility & Logistics.
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