Radiation breaks conventional electronics
Single-event effects and cumulative dose are not theoretical failure modes — they are weekly telemetry for any serious bus.
OrbitChip · Space-grade silicon
OrbitChip helps spacecraft run reliable onboard intelligence across radiation, power, thermal, and mission constraints. Choose the compute profile that survives the orbit you are actually flying.
Radiation-tolerant inference · Fault-aware scheduling · Mission spec sheets
Terrestrial AI silicon assumes fresh air, cheap power, and a technician around the corner. None of that survives launch.
Single-event effects and cumulative dose are not theoretical failure modes — they are weekly telemetry for any serious bus.
Megabits per minute are a recurring operational tax. Onboard inference shifts decisions to where photons are already paid for.
Docking, proximity ops, and closed-loop science require deterministic latency budgets terrestrial clouds cannot meet.
Every watt competes with propulsion, thermal rejection, and payload duty cycles. Compute must declare an envelope, not a wish.
Eclipse transitions and hot-case payloads squeeze margins. Inference scheduling must be thermally aware, not opportunistic.
Insurance lines and launch slots do not forgive silent data corruption in autonomy loops.
The same UI your team uses in flight reviews: orbit class, duration, payload, sensor path, power budget, thermal constraint, radiation exposure, inference workload, and autonomy level — mapped to silicon, fit score, and a mission spec sheet.
Constraint panels
Outputs
LEO
Constellation-scale inference with frequent ground contact but hostile SEU rates in certain shells.
GEO
Long dwell, high-value services — radiation accumulation and thermal stability dominate qualification.
Lunar
Cislunar logistics and surface robotics — extended autonomy with intermittent ground visibility.
Deep space
Heliocentric and outer-planet trajectories — maximum TID/SEE exposure and repair-by-wire constraints.
Orbital robotics
Proximity ops and servicing — real-time perception fused with low-latency control.
Memory scrub, ECC paths, and hardened MAC arrays sized for your orbit class — not a consumer die in a shield can.
TOPS-per-watt envelopes that respect spacecraft bus budgets from rideshare to flagship GEO.
Checkpoint policies and dual-rail execution modes aligned to your autonomy certification story.
Duty-cycle shaping that coordinates with radiator capacity instead of fighting it.
Die variants and firmware lanes tuned for EO, robotics, relay, or science payloads.
Fit score, radiation gauge, power envelope, thermal margin, inference throughput, redundancy guidance, and spec sheet preview — tuned from your last configuration.
Live view of fit score, radiation index, power envelope, and thermal margin. Configure on the demo to push a new profile here — values persist locally until refreshed.
Recommended silicon
X2 — high-throughput GEO / MEO
Mission fit
87
Radiation readiness
High
Model index / qualification envelope
Power envelope
18W
Steady-state inference estimate
Ceiling 24W
Headroom 6W
Orbit environment
GEO — geosynchronous. Hostile particle flux scaled for Medium environment over 6 months — 2 years.
Payload processing
Earth observation with Optical / multispectral — sustained 118 TOPS-class envelope at ~44 ms median frame latency (mission estimate).
Thermal margin
25%
Power headroom vs declared bus ceiling
Thermal risk: Moderate
Risk matrix
Total ionizing dose (TID) margin
Readiness High (84/100 model index).
Single-event upset (SEU) exposure
GEO trajectory class.
Thermal coupling / dissipation
Moderate — 25% power headroom.
Inference duty cycle vs downlink
Supervised autonomy — workload Detect & track.
Inference throughput
118
TOPS INT8-equivalent envelope
Median latency
44 ms
Mission spec sheet
ORBITCHIP · CONFIDENTIAL| Mission fit | 87/100 |
| Radiation readiness | High |
| Power draw (est.) | 18W |
| Thermal risk | Moderate |
| Inference latency | 44ms |
| Redundancy | Dual module recommended |
More spacecraft are flying with less margin for ground-in-the-loop decisions. Payloads generate more bits per second than downlink budgets can carry. Autonomy stacks are moving from slide decks to flight software — and they need silicon that respects radiation physics, not marketing TOPS.
Not per-seat SaaS. Flight hardware programs are scoped like silicon — review, kit, flight qualification, partnership.
Fixed-scope architecture sprint
Lab bring-up package
Qualification-aligned delivery
Multi-mission roadmap
Run the Mission Chip Configurator, push results to your mission dashboard, and bring the spec sheet into your next program review.