IBM and Irish artificial intelligence (AI) company Ubotica Technologies have announced a new partnership to simplify the process for developers to get their applications running onboard satellites.
Leveraging IBM cloud infrastructure, mutual customers will be able to securely deploy their AI models directly to satellites with a single click.
These space-borne AI models are then used to generate insights from data in space.
Earth Observation companies collect enormous quantities of data per day.
The data is stored and processed on the ground, presenting a very large-scale data challenge.
"Ubotica has partnered with IBM to streamline customer's space AI applications deployment and ground-based cloud data processing operations to help manage this data challenge," the two companies said in a blogpost.
Since 2020, Irish-based Ubotica has been providing space AI capabilities to the European Space Agency and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
In 2023 Ubotica announced CogniSAT-6, the first satellite to use space AI to autonomously schedule image tasking and generate insights onboard using image sensor data.
