03 — Software
Build. Sync. Experiment. Learn.
Containerized workloads, Kubernetes orchestration and over-the-air updates — the cloud-native workflow your team already knows, extended to hardware 500 km up.
Aether
Fleet management and OTA for every module you fly.
Aethero's multi-platform software framework for deploying and managing fleets of edge computing modules. Push firmware, board support packages and containerized applications over the air; monitor diagnostics and performance metrics; schedule and task workloads across one spacecraft or a constellation.
Aether includes an automated test framework covering hardware, BSPs and software, so teams can develop, debug and test multi-node systems reliably — plus multi-modal AI/ML on cloud infrastructure that fuses data from every Aethero system with external sources (API available).
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AMATDT
Annotate, train and deploy models — without an ML team.
The Automated Model Annotation, Training & Deployment Tool lets users choose the models they want and customize them with flags for the objects they should detect. If a model doesn't exist, annotate new imagery and AMATDT trains and adds it to your deployment portfolio — and optionally to the marketplace for other Aethero users.
Current imagery support: RGB, multispectral and hyperspectral. Fully integrated with Aether for one-click deployment to any module in your fleet.
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Onboard
Two operating systems, one headless stack.
Thin, minimal and built to boot straight into hypervisor and containerized applications.
Compute operating system
Runs on the NVIDIA SoC. Minimal package set, hypervisor and container runtime, Kubernetes clustering, multi-process-service, RAID and resilient filesystems with checkpointing.
Supervisor real-time OS
Runs on the rad-hard watchdog co-processor. Power arbitration, health monitoring, SEE recovery and safe-mode behavior independent of the main compute.
Platform Services
- CubeSat Space Protocol (CSP) for low-speed interfaces
- Over-the-air software and BSP updates
- Housekeeping, logging, scheduling and tasking
- Key diagnostic and performance metrics
Marketplace
An application portfolio, from general to bespoke.
Aethero's software stack ships with an extensive application portfolio — general-purpose models tailored to individual customer use cases, deployable across the range of Aethero modules and platforms.
Developers using Aethero's design toolchain, or anyone wishing to offer applications for a revenue split, can be onboarded to the marketplace.
- BUILDCustomize models with flagsCombine flags for the objects a model should process; add new models through AMATDT.
- SYNCTest, update, deploy over the airSoftware and board support packages across every module and platform.
- EXPERIMENTHigh-value time-series dataEdge-processed insights, nearly instant, from every Aethero module.
- LEARNMulti-modal outputsCombine inputs across platforms and external sources for multi-modal AI/ML.
Contact
See the software on real hardware.
Request a demo of Aether and AMATDT, or ask about the end-to-end ECM compute services demonstration.