LEO Compute: In-Orbit Edge Computing, Space-Borne AI Inference & Micro-Datacenters
LEOCompute delivers engineering frameworks for deploying radiation-tolerant tensor accelerators, containerized serverless runtimes, and distributed in-orbit data reduction pipelines.
LEOCompute System Architecture
Core architectural topology and protocol interaction of leocompute.com
Central System: Orbital TPU - Edge Processing
Network Nodes
- Space-Grade TPU
- In-Orbit K8s
- Data Reduction 99%
- Debris Avoidance
- Direct Insight
Architectural Protocol Layers
- User & Terminal Access Layer (3GPP Rel-17/18 NR-NTN & IoT-NTN): Direct communication from smartphones and IoT sensors to satellites
- Space-Borne Radio Access (gNodeB / Transponder) (Regenerative Digital Payloads & Bent-Pipe Transparent Processing): In-orbit demodulation, digital beamforming, and spectrum channelization
- Inter-Satellite Mesh & Space Transport (Optical Inter-Satellite Links (OISL) & 60 GHz V-Band Cross-Links): Autonomous multi-hop laser packet routing in vacuum at the speed of light
- Ground Teleport & Core Cloud Ingress (High-Throughput Q/V-Band Gateways & Optical Ground Stations): Terabit feeder link downlinks connected directly to cloud hyperscalers
Key Metrics: 100 Gbps+ (Optical Cross-Link Bandwidth) | <25 ms (LEO Propagation Latency) | ±50 kHz (Doppler Shift Compensation) | 99.999% (Constellation Transport SLA)
Downlinking Insights Instead of Raw Pixels
Core Engineering Areas
- In-Orbit Data Reduction — Running convolutional and vision transformer models to detect wildfires, maritime traffic, and floods.
- Radiation-Tolerant AI Chips — Evaluating thermal dissipation, single-event upsets, and integer quantization on space-rated neural processors.
- Orbital Kubernetes Clusters — Deploying and migrating containerized workloads across satellites as orbital passes and power availability shift.
Technical Articles
Related Cluster Architecture Specifications
- NonTerrestrialNetwork — 3GPP 5G/6G NTN Satellite Architecture, Direct-to-Cell & Non-Terrestrial Infrastructure
- NonTerrestrialNetworks — Multi-Orbit Heterogeneous Constellation Interworking (LEO / MEO / GEO / HAPS)
- AirspaceSync — Doppler Compensation, Relativistic Timing & Airspace-Space Synchronization
- FSOComm — Free Space Optics, High-Bandwidth Space Laser Communications & Atmospheric Mitigation