cEDGE Terminal
Cryptosat
TRL-9 satellite edge-compute terminal combining 99.9% global connectivity, onboard AI, and secure cloud integration (AWS/Azure/NVIDIA), available in Mini and Max configurations.
Technical specifications
- Dimensions (Mini)
- 10 x 9 x 5 cm
- Dimensions (Max)
- 10 x 24 x 7 cm
- Weight (Mini)
- 500 g
- Weight (Max)
- 1600 g
- Power, OAP (Mini)
- 3.5 W
- Power, OAP (Max)
- 10 W
- Voltage (Mini)
- 10.5V regulated/unregulated
- Voltage (Max)
- 18V regulated/unregulated
- Readiness level
- TRL-9
- Design total dose
- 5 years LEO
- Radiation features
- SEU/SEL hardened, bit-flip protection, Doppler correction
- Daily data rate (Mini/Max)
- 4 MB / 600 MB
- Latency
- 2-20 sec
- Availability
- 99.9%
- Interfaces
- Ethernet, LVDS, USB2/3, CAN, UART, I2C, SPI, MIPI, CSI, Bluetooth, WiFi
- CPU architecture
- ARM v8 64-bit
- GPU speed
- 8 TOPS
- Memory
- 8 GB
- Storage
- 1 TB
- OS
- Linux
- ML frameworks
- PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras (radiation auto-correct)
- Cloud integrations
- AWS, Azure, NVIDIA, IBM, GCP, custom
- AWS on satellite
- Greengrass, Lambda
- AWS on earth
- IoT Core, S3, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, SNS, SageMaker
- Alerts
- Email, SMS, Slack, custom
- Flight heritage
- 3 missions, 1.5 years average, no SEU/SEL/bit-flip failures
About
The cEDGE Terminal is Cryptosat’s fully integrated satellite edge-compute and connectivity device, built on the flight heritage of the company’s Crypto-series CubeSats. It combines constant, near-global connectivity (99.9% availability, including over the poles, without pointing or pass-planning) with onboard AI/ML compute and secure cloud integration, effectively extending modern cloud and CI/CD workflows to satellites and spacecraft. cEDGE uses Iridium 9603 satellite cross-links for global coverage and connects directly into cloud ecosystems including AWS (Greengrass and Lambda on the satellite; IoT Core, S3, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, SNS and SageMaker on the ground), as well as Azure, NVIDIA, IBM and GCP. Onboard compute runs an ARM v8 64-bit processor with an 8 TOPS GPU, 8 GB memory and 1 TB storage under Linux, supporting PyTorch, TensorFlow and Keras (modified to auto-correct radiation-induced bit-flip events). The terminal is offered in two configurations: Mini (10x9x5 cm, 500 g, 3.5 W, 10.5 V) and Max (10x24x7 cm, 1600 g, 10 W, 18 V), both rated TRL-9 with a 5-year LEO total-dose design life, SEU/SEL hardening, bit-flip protection and Doppler correction. Interfaces include Ethernet, LVDS, USB 2/3, CAN, UART, I2C, SPI, MIPI, CSI, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. As of the brochure’s publication, cEDGE units had flown 3 missions over 1.5 years with no SEU, SEL, or bit-flip related failures, both as a hosted payload and as a stand-alone platform, and are used for applications such as satellite retasking, robot control, orbital assembly, space-weather monitoring, cloud/disaster detection, vessel tracking, and grid surge protection.
Documentation
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