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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Planet performed AI-driven object detection onboard its Pelican-4 satellite using the satellite’s Nvidia Jetson Orin module.
The Pelican satellites use Nvidia GPUs for AI at the edge.
Starcloud-1 flew the first NVIDIA H100 GPU to orbit.
Starcloud-1 deployed an NVIDIA H100 GPU in orbit and delivered a 100x increase in AI compute.
Starcloud has partnerships with AWS, Google Cloud, and NVIDIA for Starcloud-2.
Starcloud is among Nvidia’s partners for its space chips.
Starcloud-2 will include a deployable radiator, a Blackwell chip from NVIDIA, AWS Outposts hardware, and ASICs.
Starcloud-2 will run edge compute and cloud workloads for Crusoe, AWS, Google Cloud, and NVIDIA.
The Starcloud-1 mission carried an Nvidia H100 GPU to space for the first time.
Planet Labs PBC partnered with NVIDIA to build GPU-native engines for its data pipeline.
Planet and NVIDIA are defining architectures to convert Planet’s daily data stream into scalable AI embeddings.
Planet is integrating NVIDIA GPU technology to enable Real Time Insights directly from space.
Planet is integrating the NVIDIA GPU on its next-generation Pelican satellites and its upcoming Owl constellation.
Planet can deploy its GPU-based processing in the cloud, at edge ground stations using NVIDIA Blackwell, or directly in space on NVIDIA IGX Thor.
Planet is working with NVIDIA to GPU-accelerate satellite data ground processing tasks including compositing, orthorectification, and atmospheric compensation on NVIDIA GPUs.
Planet has successfully tested the NVIDIA IGX Jetson Thor module for use in space applications.
Planet is leveraging NVIDIA Blackwell and NVIDIA IGX Thor to transform raw pixels into analysis-ready insights in a few seconds instead of hours.
Planet is applying NVIDIA CorrDiff to its PlanetScope imagery to enable generative AI super-resolution.
Planet and NVIDIA are collaborating to use GPUs to accelerate satellite imagery processing and insight generation.
Planet’s NVIDIA CUDA-based implementation delivers orders-of-magnitude acceleration over legacy CPU-based ground processing.