Ubotica Partners with NOVI Space to Accelerate Real-Time AI Inference at the Space Edge

Ubotica Technologies, a pioneer in space-based AI, has announced a partnership agreement with NOVI Space Inc. (“NOVI”), a global leader in orbit edge computing and next-generation satellite infrastructure. The partnership will  deliver decision-grade, real-time intelligence directly from the Earth’s orbit.

The collaboration integrates Ubotica’s SPACE:AI platform with NOVI’s GENIE smart-satellite constellation and platform, enabling Earth observation data to be processed directly onboard satellites, supporting faster decision-making in time-critical domains such as maritime monitoring.

Traditional Earth observation systems collect first and think later. Raw imagery is downlinked, queued for ground processing, and delivered hours or days after capture. This is far too slow for threats that move in minutes.

Onboard AI eliminates that delay. Through the partnership, Ubotica will deploy and operate AI models directly in orbit through the GENIE multi-sensor satellite platform powered by NOVI’s SP240 On-Board Computer, enabling rapid detection, classification and decision-making.

SPACE:AI generates intelligence within 90 seconds of acquisition and delivers actionable insights in near real-time, without transmitting the underlying imagery. The result is dramatically lower latency, lower bandwidth cost and higher intelligence value per pass.

Onboard processing fundamentally changes what a satellite does. Instead of acting as a passive collector of pixels, each satellite becomes an intelligent agent: capturing, analysing and delivering insights without ground processing in the loop. SPACE:AI has been proven across more than multiple models and over 100,000 in-orbit inferences. In a single observation of Singapore port, it processed hundreds of vessels and detected those operating dark in under two minutes, with insights on the ground immediately dispatched.

The economics shift accordingly. Bandwidth costs fall sharply. Latency collapses from days to minutes. A single pass returns intelligence rather than imagery, ready for operational use the moment it reaches the ground.

Dr. Aubrey Dunne, co-founder and CTO at Ubotica, said: “Our collaboration with NOVI brings more AI-enabled Earth Observation capacity into orbit. By combining SPACE:AI with GENIE’s onboard compute, we’re shifting satellites from data collectors to intelligent agents, delivering insights in minutes rather than days. That capability underpins our Live Maritime Intelligence service and unlocks new operational models for time-critical surveillance.”

Michael Bartholomeusz, CEO of NOVI Space added: “AI at the edge is not a future concept, it’s happening now. Partnering with Ubotica allows us to demonstrate the full potential of GENIE: delivering real-time intelligence from orbit, not just data. This is a fundamental shift in how space-based systems create value.”

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