NASA has selected PiLogic to test its Exact AI technology, designed to help spacecraft detect and diagnose failures across critical onboard systems.
The six-month NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I award funds development of PiLogic’s Manifest diagnostic system across three spacecraft subsystems: electrical power, thermal management, and attitude control. The system is designed to identify faults that existing rule-based monitoring may not capture, including failures that spread from one subsystem into another.
Unlike rule-based systems that flag abnormal telemetry readings, Exact AI produces diagnoses, assigns a probability to each, and can flag failures nobody predicted. The models are built for specific applications and run on standard CPU hardware, reducing the computing resources needed for onboard diagnostics.
“This selection lets us apply Exact AI to the missions where the margin for error is thinnest,” said Johannes Waldstein, CEO and co-founder of PiLogic. “Deep space and Earth-independent operations don’t give you the luxury of a ground team troubleshooting in real time. Our technology gives engineers a system that reasons through failures the way a human expert would, with a clear account of its own confidence.”
The selection follows PiLogic’s two-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the Air Force Research Laboratory, announced in June 2026, which applies the same reasoning engine to satellite health monitoring.
PiLogic builds Exact AI — exact probabilistic reasoning for mission-critical aerospace and defense. Its models, Manifest (satellite diagnostics) and Resolve (radar tracking), compute correct, explainable answers in milliseconds, onboard, on existing hardware, with no training data and no hallucination. PiLogic works with the Air Force Research Laboratory under a two-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement and is backed by Scout Ventures, Seraphim Space, Sovereign's Capital, Flex Capital, and FN Fund. For more information, visit pilogic.ai.