01
Build
One physical system at a time.
A system is implemented, tested, and documented before another layer is added on top of it.
About
Orbital simulation and
mission planning software.
KNOWN Corporation develops KnownX MPT, our orbital simulation and mission planning tool for Low Earth Orbit missions — for mission teams, institutions, and organisations building sovereign space capability.
Base Kigali, Rwanda
Company Type Space software
Core Discipline Orbital mechanics
Stage Active development
Organisation
A mission planning software company.
KNOWN is not a space agency, satellite operator, or launch provider. It is an engineering organisation building orbital simulation and mission planning infrastructure for mission teams, aerospace programmes, and institutions that need orbital mechanics they can interrogate.
The first public product is a simulation platform. The larger ambition is earned in phases, not claimed in advance.
The Name
Visible is not the same as known.
Space is visible to everyone and understood deeply by relatively few. KNOWN is built around that gap. The name is a technical statement: make orbital behavior known as a verified result, not only as an image on a screen.
Methodology
Build. Verify. State the stage.
KNOWN uses a deliberate sequence because simulation credibility is easy to damage and hard to recover. The platform advances only when the current physics layer can support the next one.
02
Verify
Validation decides what is complete.
A feature is not treated as finished because it renders. It has to survive comparison against independent reference data.
03
Communicate
Stage is stated directly.
Readers should know what exists, what is in development, and what depends on later milestones without having to infer it.
Origin
Built in Kigali. Oriented globally.
KNOWN Corporation was founded in Kigali, Rwanda. Rwanda launched RWASAT-1 in 2019, established the Rwanda Space Agency by law in 2021, and joined the Artemis Accords in 2022.
The company began from a narrow problem: professional orbital simulation tools are often inaccessible to teams that need technical depth without heavy institutional infrastructure.
Sources: ArkEdge Space, Rwanda Space Agency law, and NASA Artemis Accords announcement.