Today we are proud to announce that JACKAL-0004 has completed the first operational sortie of VICTUS HAZE, demonstrating for the first time the ability to rapidly acquire, rendezvous with, and characterize a responsively launched spacecraft within hours of its arrival on orbit.

VICTUS HAZE exercises the full Tactically Responsive Space (TacRS) chain, from launch warning, to rendezvous, to timely image processing and dissemination. This sortie ran that chain end-to-end under operationally realistic conditions.

Tasked by the United States Space Force, Jackal performed multiple circumnavigations of Rocket Lab’s target spacecraft – Puma – capturing images and characterizing the spacecraft from multiple aspects. Mosaic - our multi-vehicle, multi-domain mission software - planned the sortie, commanded the maneuvers, and ran the imaging passes. The resulting images have been processed and disseminated.

We had eyes on Puma long before the mission began. Our sensors acquired the spacecraft within hours of its launch into a previously unknown orbit.

Custody came first. The sortie came next.

What We Executed
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• Space Systems Command tasked us to execute this sortie within 72 hours. We completed it in 61
• Acquired Puma within hours of its launch into a previously unknown orbit
• Multiple relative circumnavigations of a non-cooperative target spacecraft
• Multi-aspect imaging and characterization, with products processed and disseminated
• Sortie planning, maneuver commanding, and imaging executed through Mosaic

From Target Launch to Imagery in Hours

Rocket Lab launched Puma on June 19, sixteen hours and forty-two minutes after notice to launch, and into an orbit selected on short notice. Jackal maneuvered to close the pass, then circumnavigated and imaged the target from multiple aspects.

Jackal performed exactly as designed, demonstrating precise propulsion burns and nominal ingress, successful closed-loop tracking, precision pointing, imaging and characterization of the target before egressing to its base orbit.

From a new target's launch to finished imagery, the mission clock ran in hours, not months. This is what responsive space has to mean: not just launching fast, but acting fast and with precision once something new is on orbit.

Ready for What's Next

VICTUS HAZE proves that responsive launch and responsive characterization are a single capability. Acquire a new object within hours, close the geometry, and deliver the imagery. The next step is cadence: faster, more often, and across more orbits.

Jackal and Mosaic are ready for their next tasking. VICTUS HAZE is just getting started.

About True Anomaly

True Anomaly delivers decisive capabilities for space superiority. We build autonomous spacecraft, advanced payloads, mission software, and space-based interceptors. Our products enable the U.S. and its Allies to secure the space environment and counter threats from the ultimate high ground.

Founded in 2022, True Anomaly is headquartered in Centennial, CO, with offices in Colorado Springs, CO, Washington, D.C., and Long Beach, CA. For more information, visit www.trueanomaly.space and follow us on LinkedIn.

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