December 27, 2025
Neutralino Space Ventures successfully deploys
the NSV-ISS Surveyor via the Bishop Airlock
on the International Space Station.
LOW EARTH ORBIT, December 27, 2025 — Neutralino Space Ventures, a satellite solutions engineering team out of California, together with our integration partner Voyager Technologies, is now operating the NSV-ISS Surveyor instrument. Deployed via Voyager’s Bishop Airlock, Surveyor will image the night sky with a 1,076-megapixel, wide-field mosaic camera.
The deployment of the instrument from Bishop Airlock onto its zenith-facing position via the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) is the culmination of five years of Neutralino’s sensing and computing technology development. Surveyor launched September 14, 2025 aboard NG-23 from Cape Canaveral and docked with the ISS four days later. In preparation for deployment, the instrument was internally installed and successfully passed its initial operation tests December 22-23, 2025.
Now positioned externally, Surveyor’s initial mission is scheduled to begin December 30. With its multi-teraflop-per-second sensing computing cluster and sophisticated on-orbit algorithms, Surveyor will function as a technology demonstration of the Space Domain Awareness capabilities of our TeraDCTL edge-computing camera system.
The NSV-ISS Surveyor operates autonomously based on guidance uploaded from the ground. Using the sweep of the space station’s orbital motion, it can image a swath of 175 degrees by 45 degrees every 93-minute orbit, taking images when in eclipse and analyzing data with its five onboard GPUs when in sunlight.
The NSV-ISS Surveyor mission will proceed in three phases.
Phase 1, the downloads will consist of the engineering data needed to confirm the computer and array operation and to guide algorithm tuning.
Phase 2 will consist of a sequence of algorithm deployments: satellite detection and tracking, multi-spectral stellar light curves, and transient anomaly detection.
Phase 3, the final phase of the initial six-month mission will consist of operationalizing the satellite detection mission and evaluating system performance.
While Surveyor’s primary goal is to demonstrate Space Domain Awareness using edge computing analysis of high frame rate data, the mission will also provide a platform for several university, commercial and nonprofit space-based imaging missions that will use the flight performance of the Surveyor SpaceVPX-based system to increase their own Technical Readiness Levels.
Neutralino Space Ventures predicts that NSV-ISS Surveyor will generate over 50 petabytes of data over the course of its initial six-month mission. The 1.8 terabytes of data that will be downloaded is entirely defined by software. We welcome collaboration on these algorithms – whether graduate student, citizen scientist, or industry partner. If you are interested in providing an algorithm or in accessing the data, we want to hear from you. To get started contributing or to get access to NSV-ISS Surveyor data, visit our website at https://neutralinospace.com or email us at info@neutralinospace.com. We look forward to working with you!
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Neutralino Space Ventures develops integrated satellite solutions for remote sensing, asteroid detection and astrophysics missions. Our focus on rapid design, continuous development, and comprehensive testing delivers high performance at an affordable cost.