Orbital Edge embeds artificial intelligence directly onto Low Earth Orbit satellites — converting massive spatial data streams into lightweight, actionable alerts beamed straight to the field. Decisions in real time, not days later.
Traditional earth-observation transmits multi-gigabyte raw imagery to ground stations and waits. Orbital Edge runs the algorithms on the satellite itself — so what reaches you is a decision, not a download.
The old way
The Orbital Edge way
Orbital Edge maintains proprietary control over the ground-translation algorithms and alerting pipelines that turn space-segment telemetry into operational intelligence.
Dual-pass spaceborne radar measures micro-strain in earth structures with sub-millimetre precision, tracking displacement velocity through the phase shift of reflected signals.
High-revisit sensors capture hundreds of contiguous spectral bands across SWIR and LWIR, mapping chemical and mineralogical signatures directly from space.
Proprietary translation algorithms, custom APIs and industry-specific alerting turn raw orbital telemetry into compressed, decision-ready messages.
Orbital Edge targets the capital-intensive sectors where operational lag carries the steepest cost — turning orbital telemetry into zero-harm safety and protected assets.
Mining · Energy · Oil & Gas
Catch geomechanical failure before it happens and route premium-grade material straight from the pit — protecting people and margins on capital-intensive sites.
Environmental & asset protection
Thermal-moisture arrays and radar deformation tracking watch high-consequence structures continuously, intercepting failures that threaten downstream communities.
Linear infrastructure & corridors
Real-time on-orbit edge detection guards petrochemical pipelines and heavy freight corridors against encroachment, tampering and micro-leaks along their full length.
Sovereign pharma & cold-chain
Hyperspectral health monitoring verifies sensitive agricultural zones while corridor cross-referencing flags transit and refrigeration anomalies before cargo is lost.
Critical facilities
High-frequency radar and seismic-vibration telemetry intercept physical breaches and subterranean tunnelling before localised security networks are compromised.
Built for the region
Intelligence aligned to local compliance frameworks and delivered over the mobile networks your teams already use — no specialist ground infrastructure required.
From tailings dams to open-pit walls — turning the disasters this region knows by name into early warnings, beamed from orbit while there is still time to act.
High-revisit radar and hyperspectral sensors sweep your assets from Low Earth Orbit, gathering dense spatial telemetry.
Edge-AI runs directly on the satellite processor, analysing micro-strain, spectral signatures and thermal anomalies in flight.
Gigabytes collapse into a lightweight, decision-ready alert — no ground-station bottleneck, no transmission lag.
The alert is beamed to mobile networks and lands with your teams in real time, ready to trigger the next move.
Our vision is a Southern African industrial base where heavy industry operates with absolute zero-harm safety, optimal resource conservation and flawless regulatory alignment — orchestrated by space-guided processing.
We bridge the translation gap that leaves traditional earth- observation data abstract and decoupled from the field, serving as the intelligent conduit between orbit and operations.
Proactive warnings move teams out of harm's way days before catastrophic failure — keeping people off hazardous benches and pillars.
On-orbit processing closes the gap between observation and action, so intelligence arrives while it can still change the outcome.
An intelligent translation layer aligned to local compliance frameworks keeps critical industrial data sovereign and operational.
Engineered for Southern Africa's heavy industries and delivered over existing mobile networks — no specialist ground hardware needed.
Request a technical briefing to see how on-orbit edge-AI maps to your sites, assets and compliance requirements.