# 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.

- Published: 2026-06-30T10:47:03.179Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-06-30/firefly-runs-an-nvidia-jetson-edge-computer-in-lunar-orbit-f
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- Sources: [NVIDIA Blog — Firefly Aerospace Jetson in lunar orbit](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/firefly-aerospace-nvidia-jetson-lunar-orbit/)

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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