# NASA Selects PiLogic for Spacecraft Diagnostics

NASA selected PiLogic for a six-month SBIR Phase I effort announced August 25, 2026, to assess its Manifest diagnostic system for detecting and reasoning about faults across spacecraft electrical power, thermal-management, and attitude-control systems. The feasibility effort is ongoing and is expected to run for roughly six months from the announcement; NASA has not disclosed the award value or contract number. The selection creates an early-stage opportunity for explainable, probabilistic diagnostics in NASA missions and commercial satellite operations, but does not constitute a deployment decision.

- The evaluation covers multiple spacecraft subsystems and cross-subsystem fault detection, giving contractors a concrete indication of the capabilities NASA is assessing at the Phase I stage.
- Space technology firms and satellite operators may find opportunities to support follow-on development, integration, or testing if the feasibility work advances; the current award’s value and any follow-on procurement are not specified.
- PiLogic’s separate research agreement for placing its technology on satellite testing platforms was also reported earlier in 2026, indicating an additional testing avenue; its terms are not provided.

**Jurisdictions:** federal
**Industries:** Information Technology
**Topics:** Artificial Intelligence
**Published:** November 15, 2026

### Government Entities
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)

### Vendors
- PiLogic Inc. (awardee)

### Key Quotes
> Our technology gives engineers a system that reasons through failures the way a human expert would, with a clear account of its own confidence, which is exactly what NASA needs as missions get more autonomous and what the commercial satellite industry needs as constellations get too large to monitor by hand.
> — Johannes Waldstein, CEO of PiLogic

### Sources
- [NASA Selects PiLogic to Advance Spacecraft Fault Detection with E](https://natlawreview.com/press-releases/nasa-selects-pilogic-advance-spacecraft-fault-detection-exact-ai) - The National Law Review