Edge Aerospace

Satellites generate far more data than they can send back to earth. A high-resolution imaging satellite or a large constellation produces more sensor data than its radio link to the ground can carry, so most of it is discarded or sits waiting for a ground-station pass. A solution would be to process the data on the satellite itself and send down only the useful results, this means putting real computing power and increasingly AI inference, into orbit. This has always been hard, because space electronics must survive radiation, heat, and vacuum with nobody to repair them. This has resulted in onboard computers have lagged years behind what the current standard on the ground.

Edge Aerospace, founded in 2024, based in Luxembourg, builds the onboard computers to solve this problem. Its E-Series is a line of data processing units qualified to operate in space, which is basically designed to become the satellite's brain. The unit they take commands, run the spacecraft's systems, and crunch sensor data in orbit, with enough power to run AI models rather than just relay raw data back to Earth. The same hardware is meant to scale from straightforward command-and-data-handling up to AI autonomy, and eventually to networks of these computers linked across many satellites (what the industry calls orbital data centres).

Its main contract is an ESA Space Cloud study on orbital data centres, looking at whether orbital compute is viable and how Europe could use it. It has four more contracts with ESA, the European Defence Fund, the Luxembourg Space Agency, and the Luxembourg Ministry of Defence, and in March 2026 it ran its first in-orbit demo on a SpaceX Transporter-16 rideshare. The contracts are mostly European public-sector and at the study or development stage.

The main risk is that this is a crowded space. Almost everyone building onboard AI compute is doing the same thing underneath, taking a NVIDIA or AMD chip and wrapping it in radiation-tolerant system design.

It is worth placing Edge next to The Compression Company (TCC) that we discussed in a separate memo, because the two are different answers to the same bottleneck. TCC shrinks the data so more of it fits through the existing downlink, placed on the satellite as software that runs on the compute already present. Edge attacks the same constraint from the other side, processing the data in orbit so that only the result is sent rather than the raw imagery. At the infrastructure layer the two are closer to complementary than competing, since a compression codec still has to run on something and Edge sells exactly the kind of onboard compute it would run on. Where they compete is for the same budget and the same claim on how an operator should fix downlink.

The team is strong. Co-founder and CEO Jarosław Jaworski has spent years working at other space companies, most recently as managing director at Redwire Space Europe. Rafal Graczyk, Co-founder and CTO has years of experience in avionics and on-board computers. Aaron Kemmer, Co-founder who is currently a board member has extensive experience within space companies, where he most notably co-founded Made In Space, the company that put the first 3D printer on the space station and that was later absorbed into Redwire.