SATAVIA
SATAVIA, a Cambridge company founded in 2013 and acquired by GE Aerospace, helps airlines avoid creating warming contrails by suggesting flight paths and altitudes.
With 11 to 50 staff, it makes DECISIONX:NETZERO, which combines weather modelling, satellite data and its own atmospheric algorithms to predict where persistent contrails will form and recommend changes that keep fuel penalties low. Its impact methodology is approved under the Gold Standard framework. No airline customers are named.
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SATAVIA is profiled in the companies register, but no deployment has been verified against published evidence. Records are added as evidence is reviewed and graded.
Products & Solutions
1 productDECISIONX:NETZERO
A climate intelligence platform that uses meteorological modelling, satellite observation data and proprietary atmospheric algorithms to identify flight paths and altitudes likely to produce persistent contrails, the dominant driver of aviation's non-CO2 warming impact, and provides actionable rerouting recommendations that reduce climate forcing while minimising fuel and cost penalties.
Airlines lack actionable, flight-level contrail avoidance guidance and a credible mechanism to generate verifiable mitigation credits for the warming avoided. Contrail formation accounts for approximately two-thirds of aviation's total climate impact, yet it has been operationally invisible. DECISIONX:NETZERO uses meteorological modelling to identify ice-supersaturated regions, delivers pre-flight rerouting recommendations to avoid them, and produces independently verified mitigation outcome units under a Gold Standard Approved Methodology, turning an invisible climate problem into a measurable, reportable, and marketable outcome.
- NWP-based water vapour forecasting, ingests Numerical Weather Prediction data to map ice-supersaturated regions (ISSRs) along planned routes
- ISSR identification, pinpoints the specific altitude bands and route segments where persistent contrail formation is likely to occur
- Trajectory-based contrail radiative impact modelling, quantifies the warming contribution of contrails for each flight path using atmospheric physics algorithms
- Verified mitigation outcome unit generation, produces Gold Standard Approved Methodology climate credits for confirmed contrail avoidance events
2 more features
- Pre-flight rerouting recommendations, delivers actionable altitude or route adjustments to flight operations teams before departure
- Fuel and cost optimisation, selects avoidance routes that minimise additional fuel burn from diversions
Register notes
Notes held in the Aerostack register. Aerostack has not independently verified them.
SATAVIA's climate impact quantification methodology has received Gold Standard Approved Methodology certification, an internationally recognised third-party verification standard applied to climate mitigation projects.
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As part of GE Aerospace, SATAVIA has access to one of the world's largest commercial engine fleets and a direct channel to airline operators adopting GE's sustainability programmes.
Non-CO2 effects represent approximately two-thirds of aviation's total climate impact, creating strong regulatory and commercial incentives for airlines to adopt contrail avoidance solutions.
Profile data from the Aerostack companies register; deployment records from the verified register. Evidence grades: T1 first-party confirmation, T2 credible reporting. See Our approach for how records are graded.