Sophia Space’s TILE sandwiches solar panels, compute modules and a passive thermal management system into an integrated structure.
Credit: Sophia Space
Sophia Space plans to test its orbital data center technology aboard Apex’s Nova satellite bus in 2027. The Pasadena, California-based company aims to prove out its Thermal Integrated low Earth orbit Edge (TILE) computer module for on-orbit data processing, it said on June 23. Sophia Space’s TILE...
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