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 Labs is using Nvidia technology for in-space computing applications.
Sophia Space is using Nvidia technology for in-space computing applications.
Nvidia designed the Space-1 Vera Rubin Module for the harsh, low-SWaP environment of space.
Kepler Communications’ Kepler Compute fabric is powered by 40 NVIDIA Jetson Orin modules.
Kepler Communications deployed the 40 NVIDIA Jetson Orin modules as distributed edge GPUs across the ten satellites in the Tranche 1 Aether series.
Kepler Communications is using Nvidia technology for in-space computing applications.
Nvidia’s Starcloud-1 satellite is training and running Google’s open-source Gemma model as a proof of concept.
Nvidia’s Starcloud-1 satellite carries an H100 AI chip.
Nvidia’s Starcloud-1 satellite launched on a Falcon 9 in November 2025.
Nvidia envisions a modular orbital hypercluster of satellites providing about five gigawatts of computing power.
Infleqtion's platforms underpin multiple collaborations with Nvidia to connect quantum processors and sensing systems with high-performance classical computing resources.
Starcloud received around $21 million in funding from NVIDIA and Y Combinator.
After a November 2025 launch, the Starcloud-1 NVIDIA H100-equipped satellite began training a version of Google’s Gemini model in December 2025.
NVIDIA’s Sionna Research Kit is leveraged in the testbed for AI-driven wireless system testing and synthetic data generation.
Each TILE can power four Nvidia Jetson Orin modules.
On February 24, 2026, Rohde & Schwarz and NVIDIA introduced a testbed that integrates site-specific channel emulation with the NVIDIA Sionna Research Kit for digital twin-based hardware-in-the-loop testing.
NVIDIA positions synthetic data generation as transforming the training and validation of AI-RAN systems by ensuring accuracy, scalability, and privacy.
Soma Velayutham is Global Industry Business Development Lead for Telecommunications at NVIDIA.
Genesis-1 is equipped with an NVIDIA AI core.
Each TILE hosts a solar array on one side and contains Nvidia technology inside.