Research
Engineering and research writeups from Vantafort: the methods behind GPU-native orbital propagation, maneuver detection, and the rest of the platform, each validated against published test cases and independent ground truth.
- EngineeringApril 2026
SGP4/SDP4 on WebGPU
Full SGP4/SDP4 orbital propagation in WGSL compute shaders, validated against Vallado test cases: ~422× faster than satellite.js for full-catalog propagation, with zero-copy rendering.
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LEO Maneuver Detection from TLE History
Robust-statistics change detection on raw public two-line element sets, calibrated against the ILRS laser-ranging ledger. F1 = 0.79, HIGH-tier pooled precision = 96%, no operator telemetry.
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