SCOT is Digantara's flagship space-based Space Situational Awareness satellite, billed as one of the world's first commercial space-to-space surveillance spacecraft capable of tracking Resident Space Objects as small as 5 cm.
SCOT
SCOT is Digantara's flagship space-based Space Situational Awareness satellite, billed as one of the world's first commercial space-to-space surveillance spacecraft capable of tracking Resident Space Objects as small as 5 cm.
Description
SCOT (Space Camera for Object Tracking) is Digantara's inaugural, purpose-built Space Domain Awareness satellite designed to detect, track, and characterize Resident Space Objects directly from orbit rather than from the ground. It carries an electro-optical space-surveillance payload and operates in a sun-synchronous Low Earth Orbit, giving it continuous, weather- and geography-independent visibility of the orbital environment compared to ground-based telescopes and radars. SCOT is engineered to detect and track objects down to roughly 5 cm in size with a high revisit rate, supporting collision-avoidance, space-traffic management, and national-security space-monitoring use cases. The satellite launched on 14 January 2025 aboard SpaceX's Transporter-12 rideshare mission, achieved first light on 8 March 2025, and was subsequently commissioned as an operational asset, marking it as one of the world's first commercial SSA satellites. As of mid-2026, SCOT is operational and forms the first mission in Digantara's planned SCOT series/fleet of electro-optical and LiDAR space-surveillance satellites, with additional satellites planned for launch through 2026-27.
Specifications
| Mission type | Commercial space-based Space Situational Awareness satellite |
|---|---|
| Detection capability | Tracks Resident Space Objects as small as approximately 5 cm |
| Sensor type | Electro-optical space-surveillance camera payload |
| Orbit | Sun-synchronous LEO |
| Launch date | 14 January 2025 |
| Launch vehicle | SpaceX Falcon 9, Transporter-12 rideshare |
| First light | 8 March 2025 |
| Flight heritage | First mission of Digantara's SCOT series; operational in orbit since March 2025; additional SCOT-series satellites planned through 2026-27 |