Aetherlink SystemsTelemetry diagnostics for aerospace communications
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Telemetry diagnostics for drones and satellites

Time is money. Focus your engineers on their expertise. Automate the rest.

Aetherlink reads the telemetry from your drones and satellites. It finds the moment that the link failed. Then it tells your team the cause and the fix in plain language.

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Made by Aetherlink Systems, a two-founder company with first-hand experience in aerospace communications.
Mission FX-118 · S-band downlink failure2.4 GB · 1,284,330 rows
Engineer, by hand6 steps: export, align, plot, search, compare, report
5 h 40 min
AetherlinkReads every row automatically
3 min 52 s
Root cause found · 04:12:09 UTC

The airframe blocked the S-band antenna during a yaw turn of +148°.

Engineering time saved5 h 36 min

Example mission. Times are estimates for one review of one mission log.

ReadsRSSI, SNR, packets, and subsystems
FindsThe exact failure point
ExplainsThe root cause in plain language
RunsOn your hardware, at your site
For project managers

Engineers should not sift through gigabytes of logs to find a failure point.

A failed mission gives your team gigabytes of telemetry. The cause is usually in a few rows.

Telemetry is noisy and comes from many subsystems. To find those rows, an engineer aligns signal strength, packet loss, and link quality by hand. This work takes hours, and sometimes days. Even then, the cause is not always clear. During this time, the engineer does not do the work that you hired them to do. The next mission waits.

2.4 GBof telemetry from one example mission
1.28 Mrows to read and align
7rows that show the cause
Mission FX-118 · event logRow 18,224 of 1,284,330
  1. 04:11:44-62 dBmSNR 18.6link NOMINAL
  2. 04:11:46-62 dBmSNR 18.5bat 24.1 V
  3. 04:11:50-62 dBmSNR 18.4link NOMINAL
  4. 04:11:58-63 dBmSNR 17.9yaw maneuver START
  5. 04:12:02-71 dBmSNR 12.2retransmit x2
  6. 04:12:04-80 dBmSNR 7.6retransmit x5
  7. 04:12:06-89 dBmSNR 4.1pkt_loss 22%
  8. 04:12:09-96 dBmSNR 1.3LINK DEGRADED
  9. 04:12:11-93 dBmSNR 2.0attitude yaw +148°
  10. 04:12:14-74 dBmSNR 10.8recovering
  11. 04:12:20-64 dBmSNR 17.7link NOMINAL
  12. 04:12:22-63 dBmSNR 18.0gps lock 14 sat
  13. 04:12:24-62 dBmSNR 18.3link NOMINAL
  14. 04:12:26-63 dBmSNR 18.1temp 31.2 C
→ One row out of more than a million. Aetherlink finds it for you.
How it works

From raw log to root cause in four steps.

Each step starts the next step automatically. You supply the telemetry. Aetherlink supplies the diagnosis. It combines rule-based checks with AI anomaly detection, and it focuses on RF communication links.

  1. Upload

    Give Aetherlink the telemetry logs from a drone or satellite mission. You do not have to change the log format.

    Raw mission logs

  2. Analyze

    Aetherlink reads signal strength, link quality, packet behavior, and subsystem status. It puts all of them on one timeline.

    One aligned timeline

  3. Diagnose

    Aetherlink finds the anomalies. It compares them with the system conditions at the same time to find the probable cause.

    Probable cause + evidence

  4. Recommend

    You get a report in plain language. The report tells you what failed and what to change before the next mission.

    Report with next steps
Downlink RSSI and yaw attitude · Mission FX-118Example data
The signal drops when the yaw angle peaks RSSI stays near minus 63 dBm. At 04:12:09 it falls to minus 96 dBm. At the same time, the yaw angle increases to plus 148 degrees.
→ Correlation: the dropout aligns with the yaw maneuver.
Who it is for

Built for teams that read telemetry after every flight.

We start with small teams that work with telemetry every week. Then we grow with them.

Primary focus

Commercial drone operators

Fleets fly every day. When a link fails, work stops until someone finds the cause.

University aerospace and robotics teams

Student teams have a lot of flight data and little time. Our founders started on teams like these.

Aerospace and autonomy startups

Engineering teams are small. Each hour spent on logs is an hour not spent on the product.

Satellite developers

Downlink windows are short. When a pass fails, the team must know why before the next pass.

LaterLarger aerospace organizations, defense contractors, satellite operators, and government agencies.

What makes it different

Other tools show you the telemetry. Aetherlink explains it.

Most teams have software that plots their data. An expert must still read the plots and find the cause. Aetherlink does that reading for them.

Aetherlink does not replace your engineers. It gives them back the time that they spend on raw telemetry, so they can solve the problems that need them.

Typical telemetry tools
Aetherlink
Show the data
Explains why the link failed
Plot each signal on its own
Correlates signal strength, packet behavior, and system status on one timeline
Need a specialist to interpret
Gives a plain-language report with next steps
Take hours or days per failure
Is built to answer in minutes per mission log
Data privacy

Your data privacy matters.

What we read

Four signals. Nothing more.

  • RSSISignal strengthWhere the signal became weak, and when.
  • SNRLink qualityIf noise blocked the channel.
  • PKTPacket behaviorRetransmits, drops, and gaps.
  • SYSSubsystem statusPower, attitude, and thermal state.

Aetherlink reads only the telemetry files that you give to it.

Why it matters

Telemetry shows where your systems fly and how they fail.

For defense and commercial programs, this information is sensitive. You must control who can see it. If the data leaves your site, you lose that control.

Where it lives

It lives with the hardware.

Aetherlink runs on a computer at your facility, next to your data. The logs, the analysis, and the reports stay on that computer. Nothing goes to a cloud server.

Logs, analysis, and reports stay inside your facility. No data goes to the cloud. YOUR FACILITY MISSION LOGS drone, satellite AETHERLINK on your hardware REPORT for your team NO UPLOAD CLOUD
Outputs you can trust

Every answer shows its evidence.

Why does this matter?

A wrong cause costs more than a slow answer. If the diagnosis is wrong, the next flight can fail in the same way. Your engineers must be able to check each finding. Aetherlink shows them the data behind each finding, so they can check it in seconds.

  • It cites the rows.Each finding links to the exact timestamps and rows in your log.
  • It states its confidence.Each cause has a confidence level, so you know how much to trust it.
  • It tells you when it does not know.If the data is not sufficient, the report says so. It does not guess.
DIAGNOSIS REPORT · FX-118Example
Failure point
04:12:09 UTC
What failed
S-band downlink. RSSI fell from -63 dBm to -96 dBm in 7 seconds. Packet loss was 38%.
Probable cause
The airframe blocked the antenna during a yaw turn of +148°.
Confidence
High · 0.88
Evidence
31 rows from 3 subsystems
row 18,204  04:11:58  yaw maneuver START
row 18,219  04:12:06  pkt_loss 22%
row 18,224  04:12:09  LINK DEGRADED
row 18,226  04:12:11  yaw +148°
Recommendation
Limit the yaw rate during downlink windows. Or, install a second antenna on the opposite side of the airframe.
Our story

Why we started Aetherlink.

  1. What is

    A link drops.

    A drone loses its link in the middle of a mission. The team gets gigabytes of logs, but no answer.

  2. What could be

    An answer before the debrief ends.

    The team knows the cause while the mission is still fresh in their minds.

  3. What is

    An afternoon disappears.

    Today, a senior engineer spends hours on each failure. The next mission waits for that engineer.

  4. What could be

    Engineers do engineering.

    Software reads every row. Engineers go back to design, test, and flight.

  5. What is

    The fleet grows. Manual review does not.

    424,000
    commercial drones registered with the FAA at the end of 20251
    15,880
    active satellites in orbit, October 2026 estimate2
  6. Our goal

    A trusted name in aerospace and defense.

    We start with one product that works. Then we grow, one product at a time.

    • NowRF link diagnostics for drones and satellites
    • NextMore subsystems and mission types, plus an API for your tools
    • Long termEnterprise, government, and national defense systems
1. FAA Aerospace Forecast (Part 107 registrations), reported by Unmanned Airspace. The FAA forecasts about 540,000 by 2030. 2. Orbital Radar, from Space-Track.org catalogue data.
Team

Who we are.

Aetherlink Systems is a team of two founders. We are students with first-hand experience in satellites, rockets, and aerospace communications.

Why we care

Aerospace teams work on hard problems with small margins. Their engineers should spend their time on those problems, not on log files.

Maya saw this problem first-hand. She led the ROSEYCUBESAT-1 nanosatellite project, and then she was an intern at Orbital Solutions Monaco. Both times, the team collected large amounts of telemetry. But it was slow and frustrating to find out why something went wrong. The tools showed the data. They did not explain it. Aetherlink is the tool that we wanted then.

Maya Ahmed

Co-founder

Maya brings hands-on telemetry analysis from satellite projects.

Aaron Green

Co-founder

Aaron brings aerospace engineering training and flight hardware experience.

Early access

Have a mission that you could not explain?

We are building Aetherlink now, and we are looking for 5 to 10 pilot teams. Pilot teams use Aetherlink at a reduced price and help us decide what to build next. Send us your email. We will contact you to talk about your telemetry.

Investors and partners

Aetherlink Systems Inc. is a C corporation registered in Massachusetts, USA. This is where we are now:

  • Company registered
  • First user interviews done with engineers, drone operators, and university teams
  • Telemetry failure scenarios defined
  • Now: building the first version (MVP)

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