Every satellite operator in low Earth orbit receives collision warnings. Most of them are false alarms. The challenge is not detecting threats but deciding which ones demand action, and the penalty for guessing wrong runs from a wasted maneuver burn to a debris-generating collision. Neuraspace, a Portuguese space traffic management company, has built an AI-driven platform designed to make that decision faster and more accurately than traditional methods.
CEO Chiara Manfletti leads a company that has grown from a European startup into a commercial space traffic management provider with constellation-scale customers and operations spanning Portugal and Luxembourg. Under her leadership, Neuraspace has positioned itself at the intersection of a regulatory push toward mandatory orbital safety and a commercial market that is only beginning to price the collision risk created by thousands of new satellites in low Earth orbit.
The company’s platform uses machine learning to process conjunction alerts and predict collision probability days earlier than traditional methods. Neuraspace introduced its Machine Learning Prediction Plots in March 2023, an industry first that gives operators advance warning to plan avoidance maneuvers rather than react under pressure. A 2023 partnership with Arcsec added star tracker-based debris detection to the system, enabling the tracking of smaller objects that conventional ground radar misses. And in January 2023, Neuraspace joined forces with Ienai Space and EnduroSat for Europe’s first orbital demonstration of an AI-based collision avoidance system, closing the loop from prediction to autonomous maneuver.
The customer list that followed validated the approach. Spire Global deployed Neuraspace’s platform across its 100-plus multipurpose satellites in April 2024, one of the first constellation-wide STM contracts in the commercial market. Sidus Space followed in September 2024, signing on for both space traffic management and launch and early operations support for its LizzieSat constellation. Neuraspace also launched a tiered SaaS model with SYNC, a free version of its platform, alongside a subscription-based PRO tier, a pricing structure designed to make basic collision awareness available to every operator while monetizing the advanced automation that constellation-scale customers need.
The company has expanded geographically to match its growing customer base. In April 2025, Neuraspace opened an office in Luxembourg and formalized a collaboration with the Luxembourg Space Agency, positioning itself alongside the concentration of satellite operators and financial institutions that make the Grand Duchy a center of European commercial space.
At SmallSat Europe, Manfletti joins a panel titled “The European Pulse: A 2026 Market Outlook for Smallsats” alongside ESA Director of Technology Dietmar Pilz, BryceTech founder and CEO Carissa Christensen, Astroscale US SVP Janna Lewis, and Cambridge Consultants’ Head of Satellite and Space Stewart Marsh. The session assesses whether Europe’s smallsat sector is maturing fast enough in the face of economic and geopolitical pressures.
Manfletti’s perspective on that question is shaped by what she sees from the operations side. Every new constellation launched into LEO adds to the traffic management burden; every sovereign buildout fragments the coordination challenge further. Europe’s smallsat ambitions depend not only on the ability to build and launch satellites but on the infrastructure to keep them from colliding. Neuraspace is betting that space traffic management becomes as essential to the orbital economy as air traffic control is to aviation. The market outlook panel will test whether the rest of the industry agrees.
