Capabilities · 03

AI-driven autonomy.

Planet 9 is the intelligence that flies the aircraft. Perception, navigation, and decision-making run onboard and hold the mission when the link drops and the satellites go dark. It acts instead of waiting for permission.

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Planet 9
Onboard autonomy stack
<10 ms
Perception-to-action loop
GPS-denied
Navigation without GNSS
0
Sensor modalities fused
Autonomy systems

Intelligence that lives on the aircraft

Autonomy takes a stack of systems working together, not one model. Planet 9 fuses what the aircraft senses, fixes where it is without help from the sky, decides in milliseconds, and keeps the formation together.

04 systems · 01 onboard stack

Perception & sensor fusion

Camera, lidar, radar, and inertial streams fused into one coherent picture of the world. It holds up when any single sensor is degraded, blinded, or jammed.

  • Multi-sensor fusion
  • Computer vision
  • Detection & tracking

Navigation in GPS-denied

Visual-inertial SLAM and terrain reference hold position to the metre when GNSS is jammed or spoofed. The aircraft still knows where it is.

  • Visual-inertial SLAM
  • Terrain-referenced nav
  • Jam & spoof resilience

Onboard decision-making

Planet 9 runs the full perception-to-action loop on the aircraft in milliseconds, with no datalink, no cloud, and no human in the loop.

  • Edge inference
  • Real-time planning
  • Link-independent

Swarm coordination

Aircraft that share intent and split the mission across a resilient mesh. As nodes drop out, the formation keeps working with what’s left.

  • Multi-agent teaming
  • Resilient mesh
  • Distributed tasking
The autonomy loop

How the aircraft thinks for itself

The same loop runs thousands of times a second, from raw sensor photons to a control surface moving. Planet 9 closes it onboard, in real time.

Sense

Cameras, lidar, radar, and IMU stream the raw world into the stack. The sensors are redundant by design, so no single failure blinds the aircraft.

Stage01

Fuse

The stack aligns the sensor streams in time and space into one model, rejecting outliers, filling gaps, and tracking its own confidence.

Stage02

Localize

Visual-inertial SLAM places the aircraft inside that model to the metre, with no help from satellites.

Stage03

Decide

Planning weighs the mission, the map, and the threats, then picks the next move and the path to it in milliseconds.

Stage04

Act

Commands flow to the flight controller and the loop starts again, closed onboard, faster than a human could react.

Stage05
Autonomy philosophy

Built to act when the link goes dark

We build autonomy that acts on its own. The hard case sets the design point: jammed, blinded, beyond the horizon, alone. Planet 9 keeps flying the mission when everything outside it is gone. It fails safe, holds what it can, and keeps thinking.

  • Onboard first, cloud optional
  • Resilient to jamming & spoofing
  • Keeps working as parts fail
  • Deterministic, real-time decisions
By the numbers

Autonomy, measured on the aircraft in flight

<10 ms
Perception-to-action loop
0
Sensor modalities fused
0 m
GPS-denied position accuracy
0%
Decisions made onboard
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Give the mission to an aircraft that can fly it alone

If your mission falls apart where the link drops and the satellites go dark, that is where Planet 9 starts. Let’s put real autonomy on your platform.

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