Mawson Rovers launches AutoSat, a mission operations platform for satellite teams

Sydney, Australia · 19 August 2026

Mawson Rovers today announced the launch of AutoSat, a mission operations platform that helps satellite teams automate their pass operations and monitor their spacecraft in real time.

AutoSat spacecraft tracking screen showing a 3D globe with orbital paths, a list of
active spacecraft, and details of an in-progress ground station pass — AutoSat tracks a whole constellation in 2D or 3D, with live pass and ground station status.

Small satellite teams spend a large share of their time on repetitive work around each ground station pass: configuring the pass, sending the same commands, checking the same telemetry, and writing up what happened. AutoSat is designed to take that work off the operator, so teams can run more spacecraft without adding more people to the console.

The platform brings the full operations workflow into one place:

Spacecraft tracking in 2D and 3D, with live pass and ground station status
Command console for commanding and decoded telemetry during a pass
Workflow automation built from triggers, conditions and actions
Customer and payload portals with role-based access for stakeholders
Ground station integration with AWS and custom antenna networks
Secure by design, with SSO, MFA and role-based access control

AutoSat workflow editor showing a battery undervoltage response built from a telemetry
trigger, a send command step and a Slack notification — Automated responses are built from telemetry triggers, conditions and actions such as commands and Slack notifications.

Automations can respond to the spacecraft without waiting for an operator. A battery undervoltage, for example, can move a transponder to standby, notify the team in Slack, and request a power status report, all within the same pass.

“Operations is where small satellite teams are stretched thinnest,” said Matt Ryall, CEO and Co-founder at Mawson Rovers. “We built AutoSat so that the routine part of every pass runs itself, and operators can spend their attention on delivering the new capabilities their customers need.”

AutoSat is in use today with spacecraft operators including Orbit2Orbit and the University of Sydney, as well as on Mawson Rovers’ own missions.

AutoSat is available now at autosat.space.

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