SOVRA
Simulation and decision-support concepts for orbital availability, demand forecasting, anomaly analysis, maintenance planning and operational scheduling.
Concept-stage research
SolKRON: Taking the Trust Stack to Orbit
A proposed orbital-energy operations and trust layer connecting future SOVRA simulation capabilities, EnergieMIND settlement options and aerospace infrastructure partnerships.
What SolKRON is—and is not
SolKRON is an early-stage research thesis, not an operational product. TVK Orbital does not currently claim solar-power satellites, flight-qualified energy hardware, dedicated programme funding, customers or commercial orbital-energy delivery.
EnergieMIND
An optional accounting and settlement rail for energy deliveries only after physical measurements have been authenticated, reconciled and approved.
TVK Orbital
The aerospace integration context: mission architecture, safety constraints, partner interfaces, regulatory analysis and future hosted-payload pathways.
Trust layer
A vendor-neutral chain of evidence connecting secure asset identity, signed telemetry, receiver-side measurement, reconciliation and commercial settlement.
The verification chain
- Orbital asset identity and secure hardware credentials
- Calibrated generation and transmission measurements
- Authenticated, time-stamped telemetry
- Independent receiving-station measurement
- Discrepancy detection and reconciliation
- Signed energy-delivery certificate
- Policy-controlled settlement through compatible rails
A staged path to evidence
- Stage 0 — technical feasibility, safety boundaries and partner requirements
- Stage 1 — orbital-energy digital twin and economic simulation
- Stage 2 — terrestrial telemetry-to-verification prototype
- Stage 3 — hardware-in-the-loop demonstration under controlled conditions
- Stage 4 — hosted payload or CubeSat telemetry experiment
- Stage 5 — integration with qualified aerospace and energy partners
Safety boundary
SOVRA may support modelling and recommendations, but safety-critical functions such as beam steering, exclusion-zone enforcement and emergency shutdown must remain under deterministic, independently verified controls with hardware interlocks and authorised human oversight.
Research positioning
SolKRON does not assume that commercial space-based solar power is already economical. Its near-term purpose is to test whether an operations, verification and settlement layer can create value before large-scale orbital-energy infrastructure exists.