New · REG-AI-0045 & REG-AI-0046 · Inventors Zach Akins and Bruce Perens
Patent-pending governance for the interval between an orbital warning and an orbital maneuver: when sensors, operators, algorithms, and spacecraft disagree, and when Earth cannot reach the spacecraft at all.
01The problem
Military, civil, commercial, and research spacecraft share orbit without sharing a sensor network, a catalog, a risk threshold, or a command structure. When two trajectories approach, several organizations may each produce a different answer.
01 · False corroboration
Five reports can look like five independent warnings while all five descend from the same sensor observation.
02 · Secondary conjunction
A maneuver that solves the immediate conjunction may put the spacecraft on course for a second one.
03 · Uncoordinated action
Two operators may each choose a sensible maneuver and, acting separately, leave the situation more dangerous than before.
04 · Channel without authority
Authentication shows who sent a message. It does not show that the sender had authority over this spacecraft, in this mission state, for this action.
02REG-AI-0046 · Conjunction authority
Deterministic Orbital Conjunction Authority, Maneuver Coordination, and Decision Provenance. Patent pending. When sensors, operators, and spacecraft disagree, the system ensures the right party makes the call, and that the call can be proved afterward.
Guarantee 01
A maneuver reaches a spacecraft only when the authority behind it is established for that spacecraft, at that moment.
Guarantee 02
Repeated warnings are never mistaken for independent confirmation.
Guarantee 03
A maneuver is evaluated for new risks before it is approved, so today's fix doesn't become tomorrow's conjunction.
Guarantee 04
Operators can coordinate a resolution without handing over proprietary or classified information.
Guarantee 05
Human-approved limits stay in force when the ground cannot reach the spacecraft.
Guarantee 06
Every decision, from first warning to observed result, can be proved to operators, partners, insurers, and regulators.
Every maneuver, traceable to the authority that approved it.REG-AI-0046 · Patent pending
03REG-AI-0045 · Spatial authority
Deterministic Spatial Authority Resolution for Layered Geolocated Digital Domains. Patent pending. A building, a battlefield coordinate, a lunar landing site, or an orbital volume can carry digital layers from many independent parties. The system settles who may speak for that place, for what purpose, and with what consequence.
Guarantee 01
Information can stay visible and useful without gaining the power to control anything.
Guarantee 02
Control is granted for a purpose and a time, never as blanket ownership of a place.
Guarantee 03
No layer, however popular or relevant, can move a vehicle, rover, or other protected machine without authority for it.
On the lunar surface, authority must hold through blackout, across agencies, and for years.Lunar and multi-actor space operations · REG-AI-0045
04One architecture
Both orbital filings build on the patent-pending assurance architecture behind Regulator AI Global's two GitHub-native products, Stanley's Rubric (REG-AI-0048) and Valerie's Cure (REG-AI-0049).
See the products ↗05The Human Firewall
Eclipse, ground-station handoff, cislunar distance, jamming, and cyberattack all cut the link between operators and spacecraft. The mission does not pause. Today's systems face two bad options.
01
The operator defines and signs permitted actions, triggers, time windows, priorities, and safety limits.
02
The authorization set is written to a tamper-resistant onboard record that onboard systems cannot alter.
03
During blackout, the spacecraft checks real conditions against the record and logs every evaluation.
04
Only matching, authorized actions run, within limits. Everything else is refused and recorded.
05
On reconnection, operators see exactly what occurred, which authority was used, and where the system declined.
06Architecture & applications
Layer 01 · Control plane
Every onboard action passes deterministic safety and authorization checks. There is no shortcut path.
Layer 02 · Integration boundary
An agent cannot instruct the spacecraft to take an action that requires approvals the agent does not hold.
Layer 03 · Human override
The override record is signed before contact is lost, stored in protected memory, and enforced during blackout.
Layer 04 · Audit trail
Every evaluation, execution, and refusal is written at the moment it occurs and returned to the ground on reconnection.
Space traffic
Multi-operator conjunction decisions with bounded intent exchange, secondary screening, and provable authority.
Cislunar & lunar
Shared landing sites and safety zones across agencies and companies, with authority that holds through long communications gaps.
Defense
Pre-authorized operating limits that hold under jamming, spoofing, and hostile signal environments.
07Program status
Portfolio
Provisional patent applications filed March 6 – October 15, 2026, across governance, control, override, boundary, audit, orbital authority, and invention discovery.
New filings
Spatial authority and orbital conjunction authority, filed September 27, 2026. Inventors: Zach Akins, Bruce Perens.
Implementations
Working reference implementations across the portfolio, including an interactive demonstration of pre-authorization, condition matching, and audit trail generation.
Access
Technical materials go directly to qualified licensees, integrators, and government partners. Institutional investors receive full materials under NDA.
"Today's systems have only two options in a blackout: do nothing and risk failure, or act autonomously and risk catastrophe. There is no third option. Until now."
"Commit-before-execution makes commitment to the record the precondition for action itself. The audit ledger is not a byproduct of governance. It is the mechanism through which governance is enforced."
"Human authority does not disappear during a blackout. It travels with the system, pre-committed and cryptographically bound, ready to be executed only under the exact conditions the human specified."
"You cannot remove any layer without destroying the governance guarantee. The absence of any layer leaves a gap that no other layer can fill."
08Inventors
Founder & CEO
Founder · Inventor · Systems Architect
Zach is the founder and principal inventor of Regulator AI Global's 50-application patent portfolio. His career spans financial services, real estate, and large-scale asset management, including a role as a senior asset manager working with the FDIC, inside the machinery built to contain institutional failure before it spreads.
Strategic Technology Advisor
Co-Founder, Open Source Initiative · Author, Open Source Definition
Bruce co-founded the Open Source Initiative and authored the Open Source Definition. He is co-inventor with Zach Akins on REG-AI-0045 and REG-AI-0046, and co-authored Moonshot with him. Read Moonshot ↗
09Contact
Aerospace operators, defense contractors, space infrastructure companies, technical partners, and executive candidates can request the white paper and architecture documentation directly.
Technical architecture is available to qualified parties. Institutional investors receive full technical and financial materials, including non-provisional applications, under executed NDA. All inquiries are reviewed by the founder.
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