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Orbital compute and data centers

Solar powered, space cooled, AI-ready

Orbital compute and data centers

Solar powered, space cooled, AI-ready

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TILE EDGE SERVER

Purpose-built for the orbital environment from the ground up, not adapted from terrestrial solutions. Each Tile has its own dedicated solar panel, providing continuous energy.

Dimensions: 1m x 1m x 1cm

TILE EDGE SERVER

Purpose-built for the orbital environment from the ground up, not adapted from terrestrial solutions. Each Tile has its own dedicated solar panel, providing continuous energy.

Dimensions: 1m x 1m x 1cm

AI QUAD POWERED

Each Tile can be configured with either Qualcomm SnapDragon 865 + Cloud 100 or NVIDIA Jetson + Blackwell.

AI QUAD POWERED

Each Tile can be configured with either Qualcomm SnapDragon 865 + Cloud 100 or NVIDIA Jetson + Blackwell.

COOLED BY SPACE

Radiation tolerant back plate integrated with innovative thermal management eliminates active cooling systems, reducing complexity and weight.

COOLED BY SPACE

Radiation tolerant back plate integrated with innovative thermal management eliminates active cooling systems, reducing complexity and weight.

CLOUD AGNOSTIC

Integrates seamlessly with existing satellite infrastructure and cloud services without requiring proprietary interfaces.

CLOUD AGNOSTIC

Integrates seamlessly with existing satellite infrastructure and cloud services without requiring proprietary interfaces.

DIY OR SUBSCRIBE

Add TILEs to your existing spacecraft or space station without affecting your planned energy and cooling allocation. Or you can subscribe to Sophia Satellites for your heavy AI workloads.

DIY OR SUBSCRIBE

Add TILEs to your existing spacecraft or space station without affecting your planned energy and cooling allocation. Or you can subscribe to Sophia Satellites for your heavy AI workloads.

Why Sophia Space?

Terrestrial data centers are facing constraints that limit AI and cloud growth while current LEO services suffer from bandwidth and latency issues.

Power limitations

Data centers on Earth are exhausting grid capacity in high-demand areas, leading to increased costs and degrading quality of life for local communities. Sophia TILEs are solar powered.

Transmission latency

Earth observation imagery and sensor data downlinked to Earth currently suffer long analysis times due to bandwidth constraints. Sophia TILEs process that data in orbit and relay near–real‑time results to defense and emergency responders.

Thermal load balancing

High-performance AI workloads generate excessive heat, requiring water-intensive cooling solutions on Earth while current LEO compute growth is limited due to space radiator requirements. Sophia TILEs have proprietary thermal load balancing hardware plus software.

Land constraints

Expanding data centers on Earth is increasingly difficult due to regulatory and environmental issues. Deployed at 600-1,000 KM in a sun-synchronous orbit, Sophia ODCs will place data centers in their natural habitat, space.

TILE

SOPHIA ST1

TILE

SOPHIA ST1

Why now?

Space-native edge computing needs to process valuable data where it's captured and deliver it more rapidly to customers on the ground.

Civil

40:1

Bandwidth differential between Low Rate Information Transmission (LRIT) commonly used instead of High Rate (HRIT) of 10mbs.

Crucial weather data is sent slower than your home data plan to emergency responders in the field.

Civil

40:1

Bandwidth differential between Low Rate Information Transmission (LRIT) commonly used instead of High Rate (HRIT) of 10mbs.

Crucial weather data is sent slower than your home data plan to emergency responders in the field.

Commercial

78%

Of rural and remote edge computing customers have greater than 100ms latency.

Making AI and ML development work painstakingly slow for millions of users.

Commercial

78%

Of rural and remote edge computing customers have greater than 100ms latency.

Making AI and ML development work painstakingly slow for millions of users.

Defense

63%

Percentage of equatorial zones not covered for missile defense today.

Golden Dome will require more LEO compute to achieve global millisecond detection.

Defense

63%

Percentage of equatorial zones not covered for missile defense today.

Golden Dome will require more LEO compute to achieve millisecond detection.

Commercial

78%

Of rural,remote, and emerging countries edge computing customers have greater than 100ms latency.

Making AI and ML development work painstakingly slow for millions of users.

About Sophia Space

"Wisdom above the cloud" - Leon Alkalai Founder Sophia Space

LEADERSHIP

Rob DeMillo

CEO

9x founder, ex-JPL, Lincoln Labs, CTO Nimble Collective (sold to AMZN)

Dr. Leon Alkalai

Exec. COB & CTO

Retired JPL Fellow, Founder Mandala Space Ventures UCLA

Brian Monnin

Chief Growth Officer

4x founder, ex-Microsoft, Intel, WeTransfer Brown University

Jim Chase

VP Engineering

Former SE Chief Engineer NASA JPL, USC Faculty, MIT

Cyrill Glockner

VP Partnerships

Ex-Microsoft, Verizon, Intel, Bonsai AI

Rob DeMillo

CEO

9x founder, ex-JPL, Lincoln Labs, CTO Nimble Collective (sold to AMZN)

Dr. Leon Alkalai

Exec. COB & CTO

Retired JPL Fellow, Founder Mandala Space Ventures UCLA

Brian Monnin

Chief Growth Officer

4x founder, ex-Microsoft, Intel, WeTransfer Brown University

Jim Chase

VP Engineering

Former SE Chief Engineer NASA JPL, USC Faculty, MIT

Cyrill Glockner

VP Partnerships

Ex-Microsoft, Verizon, Intel, Bonsai AI

ADVISORS

Hon. Dan Goldin

Strategic Advisor

Fmr. Director of NASA, Partner at Cerberus

Hon. Dan Goldin

Strategic Advisor

Fmr. Director of NASA, Partner at Cerberus

Hans Koenigsmann

Technical Advisor

Build & Flight Reliability Former SpaceX VP

Hans Koenigsmann

Technical Advisor

Build & Flight Reliability Former SpaceX VP

Dr. John Brophy

Technical Advisor

Technical Fellow at JPL

Dr. John Brophy

Technical Advisor

Technical Fellow at JPL

INVESTORS

Mandala Space Ventures

Unlock Ventures

CEAS Investments

SUPPORTERS

NVIDIA Inception

Armada

News

Greening Data by Going Orbital

Oct 9, 2025

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JPL Veteran Jim Chase Joins Sophia Space as Vice President of Engineering

Oct 6, 2025

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Armada and Sophia Space Unveil First-Of-Its-Kind, Fully Integrated Earth-to-Space Edge AI Platform

Sep 11, 2025

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Edge AI Takes Flight: How Armada and Sophia Are Connecting Earth and Space

Sep 11, 2025

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Forecasting Faster: Closing the Weather Intelligence Gap

Sep 1, 2025

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The Business Case for Orbital Data Centers

Aug 27, 2025

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War in Microseconds: Hypersonic Weapons and the Case for an Orbital Brain

Aug 14, 2025

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The Hidden Problem in Satellite Intelligence

Aug 13, 2025

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Think Like a School of Fish: How Orbital Data Centers Are Changing the Game

Aug 12, 2025

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AI Above, Security Below: Why Oreshnik Was the Alarm Bell We Needed

Aug 5, 2025

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RESOURCES

Interactive: A Sustainable Data Future

INTERACTIVE: weather intelligence

VIDEO: A Business Case For Orbital Data Centers

INTERACTIVE: An Answer for Hypersonics

INTERACTIVE: A Closer Look at Sensor Fusion

Sophia Tiles: A Video Explainer

VIDEO: A Broader Look

SOPHIA ORBITAL DATA CENTER
SOPHIA ODC 1

patent Pending CIT-9075-P

SOPHIA ORBITAL DATA CENTER
SOPHIA ODC 1

patent Pending CIT-9075-P

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