Spiral Blue has developed the Space Edge Computer - an onboard computing system that will give Earth observation satellites the ability to process captured images on the satellite itself.
This has the potential to increase the capacity of Earth observation satellites carrying Space Edge Computers by as much as 20x.
Space Edge Computers use the NVIDIA Jetson series modules, maximising processing power while keeping power draw manageable.
There are two variants of the Space Edge computer, the SE-Z and SE-1, both of which have flight heritage.
Specifications of Space Edge Computer variants:
| Variant |
Space Edge Zero (SE-Z) |
Space Edge 1 (SE-1) |
| Chip Architecture |
NVIDIA Jetson Nano |
NVIDIA Xavier NX |
| Processing Power |
0.5T FLOPS |
21 TOPS |
| GPU |
128-core Maxwell |
384-core Volta |
| CPU |
4-core ARM A57 |
6-core Carmel |
| Memory |
4 GB |
8 GB |
| Storage Options |
16 GB |
256 GB to 2 TB |
| Idle Power |
3 W |
3 W |
| Average Power |
6 W |
7 W |
| Peak Power |
10 W |
20 W |
