NVIDIA is a technology company, primarily known for its design and manufacturing of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and other high-performance computing solutions. While famous for their GPUs used in gaming and AI development, NVIDIA's role in the space industry is growing through partnerships. They provide AI and accelerated computing to companies like Sierra Space for space domain awareness and Spire for AI weather projects, and Lumen Orbit for AI-powered space based data centers. NVIDIA's technology enables advanced image analysis, AI, and real-time predictions for space-related applications, with their products even being tested for space-hardening to operate in harsh environments.
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Elon Musk confirmed in mid-March 2026 that SpaceX is ordering Nvidia chips at scale.
All three satellites carry NVIDIA’s Jetson AI platform for on-orbit edge computing.
Planet Labs PBC had previously demonstrated NVIDIA’s Jetson AI platform on Pelican-4 with AI-driven near real-time object detection completed within minutes of imagery capture.
OmniSat will carry hosted sensors and NVIDIA GPUs.
STMicroelectronics is collaborating with NVIDIA to integrate ST sensors and microcontrollers with NVIDIA’s robotics platform.
Starcloud, formerly Lumen Orbit, is backed by NVIDIA.
Kepler Communications’ orbital compute cluster consists of approximately 40 NVIDIA Orin edge processors distributed across 10 satellites.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang featured OroraTech’s satellite AI in his CES 2025 keynote.
STERNA brings NVIDIA-based processing directly onboard satellites for in-orbit data analysis.
Anthropic is teaming up with Amazon Web Services, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorganChase, the Linux Foundation, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Palo Alto Networks on Project Glasswing.
On March 25, Planet’s Pelican-4 satellite was flying at approximately 500 kilometers over Alice Springs, Australia, when it captured an airport image and detected airplanes onboard using an NVIDIA Jetson Orin module.
Firefly Aerospace will use the NVIDIA Jetson module and SciTec-enabled AI software to process Ocula data onboard Elytra and autonomously transmit the results back to Earth.
Firefly Aerospace and NVIDIA are collaborating to enable rapid on-orbit processing in lunar orbit for Firefly’s Ocula Moon imaging service.
An NVIDIA Jetson module was embedded on high-resolution Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory telescopes and delivered to Firefly’s spacecraft facility for integration on Elytra.
Planet Labs PBC used an onboard NVIDIA Jetson Orin module on Pelican-4 to detect airplanes in an image captured on March 25 over Alice Springs, Australia.
Planet Labs PBC has a strategic initiative with NVIDIA focused on on-orbit compute for rapid insights.
Planet Labs PBC is using NVIDIA Jetson and high-speed inter-satellite links to reduce the latency between data capture and customer insights.
Each Pelican spacecraft on this launch carries NVIDIA’s Jetson AI platform for onboard edge computing.
Planet’s next-generation Owl satellites, announced in October, will also have Nvidia GPUs for AI processing in orbit.
Planet’s Pelican satellites are equipped with Nvidia Jetson graphics processing units.