Mission operations demand speed, precision, and adaptability. Modern operators are often forced to manage fragmented workflows, manual handoffs, and dynamic constraints that slow overall progress. As mission complexity increases, teams need tools that can actively reduce friction across planning and execution.

a.i. solutions and Auria have partnered to address these challenges by integrating FreeFlyer and Astro Scheduler into a unified, automation-ready workflow. These tools combine decades of operational experience across hundreds of missions, delivering a scalable and reliable approach to mission planning that supports both day-to-day operations and high-stakes decision making.

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A Smarter Approach to Mission Planning

Astro Scheduler and FreeFlyer are expanding the horizons of mission planning and operations by combining scheduling and astrodynamics capabilities.

Their integration allows operators to run daily scheduling updates, rapidly re-plan when conditions change, and maintain alignment between mission intent and. Instead of reacting to changes in mission planning, teams can proactively adapt and ensure that schedules remain optimized across complex projects.

With Astro Scheduler and Free Flyer, teams can make faster decisions, produce more accurate results, and maintain consistent operational performance.

Rapid Scheduling at Scale

Astro Scheduler streamlines mission planning with fast, flexible scheduling capabilities, enabling teams to generate optimized schedules while accounting for limited resources, competing priorities and evolving constraints.

With Astro Scheduler, mission operators can:

  • Optimize and deconflict schedules to handle complex planning scenarios
  • Leverage comprehensive API and automation tools, including service mode and batch workflows
  • Model tasks and resources with flexibility, including blackout periods and capacity tracking
  • Collaborate and review schedules through an intuitive web-based interface

Astro Scheduler enables operators to manage time effectively and maintain clear communication across planning initiatives. Automation reduces the manual effort needed to design approaches, while flexible modeling ensures constraints and priorities are accurately reflected in every plan.

Mission-Accurate Astrodynamics

FreeFlyer ensures every schedule is grounded in accurate mission physics. Its high-fidelity astrodynamics engine models both space-based and ground-based assets with precision, enabling reliable calculations that support confident decision-making.

With FreeFlyer, mission teams can:

  • Calculate accurate geometry for space and ground assets using proven software designed for continuous use
  • Deploy software on Windows or Linux environments to align with operational needs
  • Adapt to mission-specific requirements through a powerful built-in scripting language
  • Execute analyses in parallel to support rapid iteration and scalability

FreeFlyer’s accuracy allows teams to solve complex problems quickly and re-plan without sacrificing accurate results. It also supports cost efficiency by maximizing performance within existing software investments.

How Astro Scheduler and Free Flyer Work Together

Together, Astro Scheduler and FreeFlyer create a more efficient and resilient approach to mission management bound by a repeatable, end-to-end planning pipeline.

FreeFlyer generates high-fidelity models of space-based and ground-based assets using mission geometry to produce accurate, time-bound opportunities. These opportunities are then passed into Astro Scheduler, which analyses them, applies optimization and deconfliction, and proposes a schedule ready for execution or review.

This connected workflow eliminates the need to manual handoffs between systems, reducing the risk of errors and improving consistency across planning efforts. It also enables automation at scale, allowing mission teams to run planning processes continuously or in response to changing conditions.

Mission Spotlight: Sensor-to-Shooter Operations

In sensor-to-shooter operations, missions often involve rapidly changing constraints and conditions that require precise alignment between sensing assets and ground-based systems. Astro Scheduler with FreeFlyer can model complex, constraint-heavy schedules like these with ease.

Using FreeFlyer, operators can model the full orbital behavior of an LEO constellation alongside a ground-based shooter asset. This generates time-tagged communication and collection opportunities based on real mission geometry.

Astro Scheduler then ingests these opportunities and rapidly deconflicts tasks, ensuring that the most valuable data is delivered in the shortest possible time.

Mission Spotlight: Constellation Communications

As missions grow more complex, the ability to plan, adapt, and execute confidently become crucial to success. Astro Scheduler with FreeFlyer equip mission teams with the tools they need to operate efficiently and automate at scale.

FreeFlyer generates and propagates an LEO constellation, using high-fidelity models to calculate realistic access windows across multiple ground stations.

Astro Scheduler then analyzes these opportunities and creates an optimized communication schedule that accounts for mission constraints and priorities. This scalable solution supports visualization and reporting for immediate execution or high-level review.

About a.i. solutions

a.i. solutions is an aerospace engineering firm providing mission-critical software, engineering services, and operational support to national security, civil, and commercial space organizations. Its flagship flight dynamics platform, FreeFlyer, supports mission planning, analysis, maneuvering, targeting, orbit determination and optimization, and space ground systems. Since its founding in 1996, a.i. solutions has leveraged artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve mission performance and operational efficiency.

About Auria

Auria develops and integrates advanced systems across the command, control, and communications (C3) continuum for advanced space and missile operations. Its solutions support Space Operations, Space Domain Awareness, Satellite Communications, and Missile Defense for federal, international, and commercial customers. Its Astro Scheduler streamlines diverse and complex missions across LEO, GEO, interplanetary, lunar, and asteroid environments.