Firefly Aerospace to Deploy NVIDIA Jetson Edge AI in Lunar Orbit on 2026 Mission
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Chen Su
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Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 successfully landed on the moon in March 2025, downlinking nearly 120 GB of raw data. The upcoming Blue Ghost Mission 2 (late 2026) will debut the Ocula moon imaging service, which will operate NVIDIA's Jetson edge AI platform in lunar orbit for the first time. This enables on-orbit AI inference, reducing the need to downlink all data to Earth for processing.
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· 3 pulledWhen Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 landed on the moon in March 2025, the lander downlinked nearly 120 gigabytes of raw data back to Earth — imagery and video captured by onboard cameras that scientists are still processing today.
The company's next lunar mission, Blue Ghost Mission 2 — targeted for launch in late 2026 — will carry Firefly's Ocula moon imaging service, marking the first time the NVIDIA Jetson edge AI platform has operated in lunar orbit.
The NVIDIA Inception member's Ocula moon imaging service will harness the NVIDIA Jetson platform for edge AI, running inference directly in space to significantly accelerate insights compared with downlinking all data back down to Earth.
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