Morning Edition · Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Firefly Runs an Nvidia Jetson Edge Computer in Lunar Orbit for the First Time
An AI inference module operated in orbit around the Moon, a marker for running models at the edge where cloud connections do not reach.
Firefly Aerospace operated an Nvidia Jetson edge computer in lunar orbit, the first time the module has run there, Nvidia said. Jetson is Nvidia's low-power embedded platform for on-device inference, the same class of part used in robots an…
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