About
Awaresst Space Technologies Limited, operating as AWARESST, is an Abu Dhabi-based space technology company developing Space Surveillance & Tracking capability from the United Arab Emirates, with ground-based optical observation as its technical foundation.
SST is the observational discipline of detecting, tracking and characterizing resident space objects. It is the measurement foundation on which broader Space Situational Awareness (SSA) depends, rather than a synonym for it: SST produces the tracking data and refined orbital states from which situational awareness is assembled.
An increasingly unforgiving orbital environment
Earth orbit is becoming more crowded, more dynamic and more operationally consequential. Active spacecraft share orbital regimes with defunct satellites, rocket bodies and fragments. Spacecraft manoeuvre. Objects break apart. Atmospheric drag reshapes trajectories, and new launches continuously alter the environment.
Propagation and orbital modelling remain essential, but propagated knowledge depends on the quality and recency of the observations behind it, and observational coverage remains incomplete.
A propagated orbit describes where an object is expected to be.
Observation tests that prediction against where the object is actually measured to be.
As orbital knowledge becomes stale and uncertainty grows, risk increases. Custody can be lost, conjunction assessments become less reliable, unnecessary or delayed manoeuvres become more likely, missions can be disrupted, and a collision or fragmentation event can create persistent debris risk for operators far beyond the original encounter.
The technical challenge is maintaining knowledge of an object’s state, its uncertainty, its behaviour, its custody — and when another observation is required.
Building the capability to see what is actually happening
AWARESST is building Space Surveillance & Tracking capability from the UAE, connecting optical observation, orbital analysis and operational decision support into an increasingly integrated technical chain.
Ground-based optical observation forms the foundation of AWARESST’s current sensing strategy, with capability development progressing toward integrated optical observation infrastructure combining telescope systems, sensor control, acquisition, processing and orbital analysis.
Building the physical, digital and analytical layers required for sustained optical SST operations.
Observation infrastructure and telescope systems; sensor tasking, station control and acquisition; processing pipelines and data systems; orbit determination, state estimation and custody workflows — and the operational expertise that sustains them.
Satellite and constellation operators, government and institutional stakeholders, research organisations, and the wider space ecosystem responsible for coordination and long-term stewardship of the orbital environment.
AWARESST exists to reduce the distance between what is predicted to be happening in orbit and what is actually happening.
From observation to decision
Each stage feeds the next. The chain is only as strong as its weakest link, so the capability is built against the whole of it rather than a single stage.
Requirement
What needs to be known.
Observation planning
When and how it can be measured.
Acquisition
Sensors acquire the target.
Measurement
Observations and external data become validated measurements and tracklets.
Refinement
Measurements refine orbital states and constrain uncertainty.
Custody
Continued observation enables reacquisition and maintains custody.
Decision support
Refined orbital knowledge supports prediction, event assessment and informed decision-making.
Refined orbital knowledge supports prediction, event assessment, conjunction understanding and operational decision support.
The objective is larger than producing individual measurements. It is to build sustained technical capability that strengthens mission awareness and space safety, builds national technical capacity, protects orbital infrastructure and provides the evidence required for responsible long-term use of the orbital environment.