20/05/2026
For sixty years, satellites have got steadily better at one job: capturing the Earth. Sharper images. More modalities. Faster revisit. Optical, SAR, hyperspectral, RF. We see more of the planet, more often, in more detail than ever.
But the deal has always been the same. Collect pixels. Send them home. Make sense of them later.
Ubotica has been changing that for years. We flew the first AI inference in orbit on ESA's ΦSat-1. We operate CogniSAT-6, the first commercial AI satellite. With NASA JPL, we've proven autonomous Dynamic Targeting, where a single satellite looks ahead, spots what matters, and reorients mid-pass to capture it.
Our partnership with NOVI Space accelerates the shift. SPACE:AI now runs on NOVI's GENIE smart-satellite platform, onboard, in orbit, the moment data is captured.
The old model: collect first, think later. Imagery comes down, queues for processing, gets analysed hours or days after capture. Fine for glaciers. Useless against threats that move in minutes.
The new model: think first, send the answer. SPACE:AI delivers intelligence within ninety seconds of acquisition. A single observation of Singapore port processed hundreds of vessels, flagged the ones operating dark, all in under two minutes. The image came down days later.
This is what AI in orbit unlocks.
Bandwidth costs collapse. Latency collapses. The satellite stops being a pixel collector and becomes an intelligent agent.
SPACE:AI brings the proven AI stack, with over 300,000 inferences in orbit. NOVI's GENIE platform, built on the SP240 onboard computer, is designed for exactly this: delivering real-time intelligence from orbit, not just data. Together we put more AI on more sensors, with more operational reach.For maritime security, critical infrastructure protection, time-critical surveillance, this is no longer theory. It is operating today.
Satellites used to send pictures. Now they send real-time intelligence.
Read the Press Release: https://zurl.co/9VMjU
