Space
From orbit to insight, at any scale
Space generates some of the most demanding data in existence: high volume, high velocity, multi source, and only meaningful when correlated across time and orbit. Black Forest organises it as a living network of relationships so operators and analysts can act at mission tempo.
Minutes
To associate objects and reconstruct manoeuvres, not hours or days.
Every orbit
Custody maintained across a growing resident space object population.
Sovereign
National ownership retained, with access rules embedded in the data itself.
Space is getting crowded, quickly
Our space customers tell us that the constraint is no longer collection. More satellites, more sensors and more revisits produce more data than any conventional architecture can organise. The computer science of the 1970s was designed when data was smaller and slower, and it degrades exactly when volume and tempo rise.
Space does not wait. Objects move fast, conditions shift constantly, and delays turn insight into guesswork. A static snapshot is not enough when you are tracking manoeuvres, assessing threats or working out how one event triggered another. The challenge is no longer collection. It is making data usable before the window to act has closed.
Space
Space generates some of the most demanding data in existence: high volume, high velocity, multi source and only meaningful when correlated across time and orbit. Black Forest organises it as a living network of relationships rather than isolated records, so operators and analysts can connect the dots at mission tempo.
Space domain awareness
Custody of every object, in near real time
Identify, track and maintain custody of space objects at scale across a growing resident space object population.
Automate data fusion, calibration and data quality filtering, then associate and correlate objects to detect and reconstruct manoeuvres in minutes.
Multi sensor fusion for a 360 degree orbital picture, with AI and machine learning anomaly detection, conjunction analysis and pattern based threat detection.
SDA depends on relationships, interactions and evolving networks rather than isolated data points, which is exactly what a time aware knowledge graph is built for.
Earth observation
Time series knowledge search across sources
Fuse optical earth observation, synthetic aperture radar and radio frequency data into one queryable picture, expandable to any additional source.
Combine, correlate and verify across providers, so a detection in one source can be confirmed against another over the same place and time.
Temporal, relational and spatial analysis in a single engine, feeding predictive analytics, machine learning and generative AI with connected context.
Climate and environment
Multi source event correlation over time
Ingests the formats this domain actually uses, including GeoTIFF, KMZ, GRIB2, NetCDF, JSON and GeoJSON.
Co-locates discrete data products in storage, so every weather layer and data source can be queried together rather than one at a time.
Supports environmental applications from crop and land monitoring to wildfire prediction, correlating satellite data with ground sensors, weather feeds and historical records.
Sovereign by default
Black Forest deploys wherever the mission requires, on premises, at the edge or in a sovereign cloud, giving you complete control over your data and who can access it. Craxel never takes ownership of customer data. That is a deliberate choice, and it matters when the data is national capability.
Open standards throughout, including REST, SQL and SPARQL, mean space data stays interoperable across agencies and partners rather than locked inside a vendor platform. Zero trust access control and searchable encryption protect it in use, not only at rest.
Coalition operations
Share what matters. Keep what is yours.
Sovereignty still matters, especially in coalition operations. Sharing data does not have to mean giving up control. Black Forest keeps data under national ownership with access rules embedded directly in it, so what gets shared is governed by policy rather than by moving everything into a centralised system.
For UK, US and Australian partners that is a practical model. A shared ontology and a federated query approach mean everyone works from aligned meaning without compromising sovereignty. Partners store locally and discover globally, releasing results rather than raw holdings.
Built for how space actually operates
The advantage will not come from more sensors or bigger dashboards. It will come from the architecture that connects everything and makes it usable.
Relationships, not records
A living network, not a snapshot
Objects, behaviours, sensors, cyber indicators and mission data connected as one network that keeps its relationships intact over time.
Query it and still retain the context behind the answer. In space domain awareness the story is rarely a single object or alert, it is the chain of relationships between them.
Artificial intelligence
Context AI can actually work with
AI in space operations needs more than volume. It needs provenance, sequence and trust built into the data it is given.
Black Forest supplies exactly that, so outputs can be checked back to the observations that produced them rather than taken on faith.
Why it matters now
The domain keeps getting harder
More autonomous systems, more cross domain integration and more reliance on shared data between partners.
The goal is not to store more. It is to make better decisions faster, with time aware relationships, fast querying and strong auditability.
Working with the space community
The questions that usually follow a capability conversation, answered in one place.
Registered and accredited
JOSCAR approved, Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus certified, a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant and holder of the Employer Recognition Scheme Bronze Award.
Members of ADS and the Air and Space Power Association, and a sponsor of service sport.
How agencies and primes buy
UK: Crown Commercial Service G-Cloud 15, Constellia under the NVFI route, or direct with Craxel UK Ltd.
US: assessed as Awardable through the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace, with Carahsoft and 4xBolt as reseller routes.
Data stays yours
Zero trust foundation, secure by design and memory safe, with fine grained access control and searchable encryption inside the engine.
Self-classified under the US EAR as ECCN 5D992.c and No Licence Required against the UK Strategic Export Control Lists.
The domain moves. Your picture should too.
Whether you are a prime, a systems integrator, an agency or an end user, we can move quickly through the usual assurance steps.
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