Launch Intelligence Fusion
Turn fragmented, contradictory launch alerts from competing providers into a single authoritative launch picture, scored, weighted, and continuously updated in real time
LIFT is an event-streaming fusion engine that ingests launch alerts and predictions from multiple independent providers and produces a single, weighted, high-confidence launch picture. Rather than treating all sources equally, LIFT continuously tracks each provider's historical accuracy, message quality, consensus behavior, and temporal consistency, then combines those signals into a composite confidence score that drives the fusion output.
The result is an authoritative launch picture that reflects what the most reliable sources say, not simply what the most recent or loudest source reported. LIFT was built for space launch intelligence and is deployed in production at the USSF Space Domain Awareness (SDA) TAP Lab. The same fusion approach is applicable wherever multiple providers report on a shared set of events that must be reconciled under time pressure.
Historical accuracy tracking per provider, continuously updated as new outcomes are observed
Identify when multiple independent providers agree on the same event parameters
Evaluate completeness, field quality, and information value of each message
Track message timing patterns and detect anomalies in provider behavior
Score each message by the completeness and uniqueness of information provided
Combines predictions, detections, status signals, contextual annotations, and classifications
Event-streaming architecture for sub-second fusion latency
Automatic archival of fused output for audit, replay, and historical analysis
Subscribe to message topics carrying launch predictions, detections, and status alerts from multiple providers across the event stream
Group related messages by temporal and spatial proximity, score each provider across multiple independent tracking dimensions
Weight provider contributions by confidence, merge fields, compute cumulative score
Publish fused launch records to the output stream and archive for audit and historical analysis
Tracks provider performance against verified outcomes, updated continuously as ground truth is established
Detects when multiple independent providers agree on event parameters within configurable tolerance windows
Scores message completeness, field validity, and data type correctness per provider
Tracks message timing, identifies late or early patterns, penalizes erratic behavior
Weights fields by domain-configured importance and tracks unique contributions per provider per event
Combines all scoring dimensions into a weighted composite confidence score with configurable thresholds
LIFT was developed and deployed as a core component of R4C Tech's USSF Space Domain Awareness (SDA) TAP Lab integration, where it fuses launch predictions and detection alerts from multiple commercial and government space-tracking providers into a single authoritative launch picture. In that environment, LIFT continuously adjudicates provider disagreements in real time, handling simultaneous global launch events with sub-second fusion latency.
Fusing launch predictions and detection alerts from commercial and government tracking providers into a single authoritative launch picture, deployed at the SDA TAP Lab
LIFT's fusion approach applies to any domain where multiple providers report on shared events that must be reconciled under time pressure. Contact us to discuss applicability to your use case
See how LIFT produces a single authoritative operational picture from your existing provider feeds, without replacing any upstream data source