EO-SYSTEM / SOVEREIGN MARITIME INTELLIGENCEFILE NO. EO-001

Mission one

EDISONSAT

Name: EdisonSat
Brand: Plasma Orbital

Our pathfinder for sovereign AI-MicroSats

EdisonSat is Plasma Orbital's concept prototype for next-generation AI-enabled microsatellites designed for persistent maritime awareness.

Named after the inventor who turned invention into an industry: Thomas Alva Edison.

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01 — Why a pathfinder

Prove the pipeline before you fly the fleet.

Built as a pathfinder platform, EdisonSat allows us to validate key technologies — including onboard AI processing and vessel detection workflows — before future orbital deployments. Space systems are engineered incrementally. The capability we fly is the capability we have tested.

02 — Featured subsystems

The intelligence chain, end to end.

Five subsystems take EdisonSat from photons on a sensor to an actionable alert on the ground.

AI Payload Processing Unit (PPU)

The AI brain

Where raw imagery becomes intelligence, in orbit.

→Powered by an NVIDIA Jetson processor
→Runs an in-house edge-AI model that processes satellite imagery in real time and generates actionable insights onboard

On-Board Computer (OBC)

Spacecraft operations

Keeps the satellite flying and the mission running.

→Based on a Cortex-A72 (ARM v8) processor
→Runs NASA F´ flight software for spacecraft operations

Sensor Suite

Eyes on the water

The imagery the AI payload reasons over.

→RGB camera payload
→The current demo runs the AI pipeline on real high-resolution satellite imagery rather than a live orbital feed

Communications

Getting intelligence down

The link from orbit to operator.

→UHF link operating at approximately 850 MHz
→Demonstrates simulated real-time relay satellite communication

Ground Station

Command and control

Where the mission is commanded and the data received.

→Powered by NASA F´ ground station software
→Enables command and data transmission and reception

03 — Specification

The orbital ISR system, drawn to spec.

Deployed elevation, payload-module internals, and the operational maritime schematic — from AIS signals and multiband radar return to on-board AI processing and the downlink to a ground station.

System specification / fleet capability the pathfinder de-risks

SpecOutput

CoverageNation-scale EEZ

Revisit<30 min

LatencyReal-time

DetectionAIS + dark vessels

UplinkIn-orbit model updates

EdisonSat Orbital ISR System specification blueprint: front and side elevation, payload module internal section with neural processing unit stack, and operational maritime ISR and AIS schematic.