A London company founded in 2022 that tracks satellites and space debris with its own network of telescopes and AI software, serving UK government and satellite operators.
Spaceflux watches what is happening in orbit. Thousands of satellites and pieces of junk circle Earth, and operators need to know where everything is to avoid collisions. Spaceflux uses ground-based optical telescopes with high-precision sensors, including cameras that see visible and short-wave infrared light, which lets it track objects in daylight as well as at night. Its artificial intelligence software, including a platform called Cortex, turns the observations into warnings and data. It says it covers everything from low Earth orbit to geostationary orbit, the high orbit where many communications satellites sit, and out toward the Moon. This field is called space domain awareness.
Spaceflux was founded in 2022 by Dr Marco Rocchetto, now chief executive, Professor Ingo Waldmann, both astrophysicists at University College London, and entrepreneur Marcel Debczynski, the chief commercial officer. According to a company profile, the idea came from a conversation among the three in a London pub. Dr Rocchetto has said space is becoming more congested and contested, and the company aims to cut the risk of collisions and support a safer, more sustainable orbital environment. Mr Debczynski links its role to keeping space safe and usable for future generations.
The company is headquartered in London and describes UK government bodies among its customers, including UK Space Command and the UK Space Agency, for which it was reported to be the sole provider of geostationary tracking data. In 2024 it won a contract from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) to build an infrared telescope testbed for satellite surveillance, and it launched a research division called Spaceflux Labs. Its telescopes are spread across about 15 sites on five continents, with a plan for 25, so the UK team works with partners and sensors around the world. We did not confirm any UK site beyond London.
The company reportedly employed about 30 people in a 2025 profile. When the Intelsat 33e satellite broke up in 2024, Spaceflux was said to be first to detect it and gave governments and operators real-time updates on the debris cloud, which gives a flavour of the fast-moving work. The sources we read say nothing direct about culture, values or benefits. The academic founders and the Spaceflux Labs research arm suggest a technical, research-led team, though that is our reading.
People in a company like this include astrophysicists and data scientists, software and machine-learning engineers, optical and electronics engineers who design and operate the telescopes, field engineers who install sensors at remote sites, and business and government-relations staff. Physics, maths, computing and engineering are the natural subjects. The company's website will have details of the current team.
Website: www.spaceflux.com
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