In this interactive workshop, participants take the role of satellite operators responsible for maritime domain awareness. From a shared imaging and sensing spacecraft, teams will collect and interpret intelligence across widely separated operating areas while links and onboard behavior remain under pressure.
The mission
Your spacecraft supports persistent surveillance. Imagery, geospatial context, and communications performance must remain operational long enough to deliver answers on demand. AIS and other external feeds are useful – but not infallible.
Your team knows contested RF and sensor ambiguity can distort the picture. When commanders need timely maritime intelligence, every collection pass and every downlink window counts.
The challenge
The Orbital Intel mission rehearsal exercise (MRX) unfolds through a sequence of operational task orders.
Your mission begins with dense maritime traffic and suspicious behavior in a strategic chokepoint. It moves to change detection against a reference brief in a sensitive littoral region. Then you confront deliberate AIS dishonesty and silence. Can your team fuse what the camera shows with what the data claims? Later, telemetry shifts: an onboard fault demands diagnosis and recovery, while downlink performance collapses under interference. Can you attribute the disruption, identify the co-orbital adversary, and recover service using disciplined frequency response?
Teams must sustain surveillance output as imagery interpretation, data fusion, subsystem health, and RF resilience are tested together.
Similar to a capture-the-flag challenge, participants score points by correctly answering imagery and AIS-fusion tasks, diagnosing the spacecraft fault, characterising interference, and restoring communications performance before situational awareness erodes.
This is not a simplified table-top exercise with stylised components. This is a real operational challenge. No passive observers. No slides. Just teams, telemetry, imagery, and a spacecraft that must keep delivering intelligence under progressive disruption.
Workshop delivery and training outcomes
Zendir simulations replicate systems-relevant satellite operations in an immersive orbital environment. Our high-fidelity digital twin platform gives participants a live-virtual-constructive (LVC) setting to develop skills through practical application.
Zendir's Orbital Intel MRX focuses on:
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Operational collection: tasking, imagery interpretation, and maritime intelligence-building
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Multi-source validation: comparing the mission's AIS to the asset's sensor intel to find the discrepancy
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Anomaly diagnosis: assessing telemetry to isolate subsystem faults
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Mission recovery and resilience: recognising interference, mitigating impact, and restoring downlinks
This is a free MRX workshop, but places are limited.
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