23 June 2026 – Sophia Space, Inc., a leader in space-based edge computing, today announced it has selected Apex, the leading supplier of productized satellite platforms, to supply a satellite bus to bring real-time orbital computing to enterprise, government, and defense customers. Sophia Space will fly one of Apex’s Nova bus platforms for a demo mission in 2027, demonstrating Sophia Space’s TILE (Thermal Integrated LEO Edge) compute modules. The deal comes at a pivotal moment, as the volume of data generated in orbit grows, driven by new constellations designed to deliver persistent Earth observation, communications, security, and scientific insights. Traditional approaches, reliant on downlinking petabytes of data to ground stations, simply cannot keep pace with mission-critical timelines, making a new layer of on orbit edge processing essential. Read more