01Why Arksa
One mission, one model.
Most mission teams piece their analysis together from an installed desktop suite, in-house scripts and spreadsheets, and a few single-purpose web tools. Arksa keeps the whole mission on one model in one platform: the web studio today, and Sovereign built to run on your own servers when it has to stay inside. The operating system for space missions.
One scenario · every module in the studio reads it
02The approaches
Four ways to run a mission
Every approach is good at something. Here is what each one is, what it does well, and what it tends to cost a team.
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Installed desktop suites
Deep, and deeply installed
Comprehensive analysis applications licensed per seat and installed on each workstation.
Good atAnalysis breadth, high-fidelity force models and precision reference frames built up over many years.
Costs youInstalls, seat licences and a workstation per analyst. Sharing a result usually means sharing a file or a screenshot.
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Scripts and spreadsheets
Exactly what you need, until it is not
In-house code, notebooks and spreadsheets written for one mission and one question at a time.
Good atFull control and transparency, shaped around the problem in front of you.
Costs youValidation, upkeep and the person who wrote it. Each script holds its own copy of the mission, and the copies drift.
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Single-purpose web tools
One question, answered well
Focused online calculators and services for a single job: a link budget, a pass list, a network simulation.
Good atFast answers on the web.
Costs youRe-entering the mission in every tool, and results that do not talk to each other.
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Arksa
The whole mission, on one model
Orbits, constellations, coverage, access, power, link budgets, conjunctions, networks, Δv and lifetime, trade studies, interplanetary transfers and compute in orbit, in the web studio today, with Sovereign built to run on your own servers.
Good atOne shared record for the team, share links, open file formats, API access on request, and Sovereign on your own servers.
ProvenChecked against published references on every change. See the results.
03Side by side
What changes day to day
How the approaches usually play out across a mission. Individual tools vary; these are the typical patterns, not claims about any one product.
Validated: TLE propagation against the published verification set →
| Quality | Arksa | Desktop suites | Scripts and spreadsheets | Single-purpose web tools |
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04Use both
Keep your tools. Add Arksa.
Arksa reads STK ephemerides and facilities, GMAT scripts and CCSDS messages, and writes them back, so you can run it next to the tools you already trust.
Early access · Mission and Sovereign by contract
Your mission starts here
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