SumerSystems is building the SumerOS Orchestration Engine, the pilot application for a new class of infrastructure software that treats orbital, airborne and ground compute as one continuous fabric. Today, satellite operators are forced to beam every byte of raw data down to the ground before any processing happens, paying for bandwidth, latency and missed decisions they cannot afford. The Orchestration Engine moves intelligent computation to the edge, aboard orbiting compute nodes and SAGIN relays, so that time-critical workloads, such as thermal anomaly detection, onboard AI inference and mission planning, run where the data is captured instead of where the ground station happens to be.
Our physical-state-aware scheduler continuously forecasts each node's thermal, radiation, energy, network and storage conditions and places workloads accordingly, so a job runs on the satellite best suited to finish it, not merely the nearest one. When a node enters eclipse or a link degrades, workloads migrate autonomously across the laser mesh and the SAGIN airborne layer without operator intervention. The result is lower latency, lower downlink cost and uninterrupted insight for the operators who depend on it.
SumerSystems is for satellite operators and manufacturers, Earth-observation teams, defense missions and research institutions that need real-time onboard compute and cannot tolerate the delay of a ground-only pipeline. It is built by SumerSystems Inc., an Sacramento, California-based infrastructure software company focused on the orbital compute network. Through the OEC-1 pilot, we are validating commercial workloads on orbit and onboarding design partners who want to be first to run them.
The scheduler reads live thermal, radiation, energy, network and storage telemetry from every node and places each workload where it will run most reliably, not just where capacity exists.
Orbital edge computers, SAGIN airborne relays and ground stations form a single fabric that moves compute to the data, cutting round-trip latency for time-critical workloads.
Predictive forecasting and autonomous failover keep workloads running through eclipse, ground-station handoffs and link degradation, so insights reach operators without interruption.
Tell us about your mission and the challenge you're solving. We'll follow up about discovery calls, design partnerships and the OEC-1 pilot.