BruhnBruhn attends SmallSat 2025

Salt Lake City, Utah, August 2025

BruhnBruhn Innovation is attending the 39th Annual Small Satellite Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, August 10 to 13, and is using the occasion to formally introduce Dacreo apto, its hardened cloud-native spacestack for orbital operations. Dr. Fredrik Bruhn, CTO of BruhnBruhn Innovation, is attending and available to meet with partners and prospective customers throughout the conference.

Dacreo apto is the result of years of research, development, radiation testing, and system validation. It brings cloud-native operations to space hardware, enabling mission teams to deploy and manage containerised applications in orbit using the same tooling and workflows they already rely on in terrestrial cloud environments.

The platform is validated on Blue Marble Communications’ Space Edge Processor, built on AMD’s 7nm V2000 series APU, and includes full support for the BMCnet driver. It also supports the older AMD V1000 series and other CPU architectures, giving mission designers flexibility across a range of space-grade hardware configurations.

Dacreo apto introduces several capabilities developed specifically for the demands of the space environment. A patent-pending orchestration hardening layer addresses the reliability challenges that standard Kubernetes cannot handle in orbit, including cosmic ray upsets and the impossibility of physical intervention. Fail-safe A/B root filesystem updates with automatic rollback ensure that a failed software delivery can never leave a spacecraft unrecoverable. The root filesystem is read-only by design, with X.509 cryptographic signing of all update bundles and a dedicated factory recovery partition for worst-case scenarios.

A Space Manager microservice provides execution trust and operational intelligence, monitoring running services for anomalous behaviour and enabling autonomous mitigation between ground contact windows. The platform supports backwards compatibility with CCSDS Space Packet Protocol, allowing integration with legacy telemetry systems alongside native onboard orchestration and industry-standard S3-compatible storage interfaces.

For AI and data processing workloads, Dacreo apto includes radiation-hardened acceleration support across GPU, NPU, and FPGA fabrics, drawing on the Dacreo AI Foundation compute environment.

The reliability principles behind Dacreo apto were drawn deliberately from industries where failure is not an option. Aviation, railway, gaming, and robotics each contributed lessons about software update safety, execution monitoring, and graceful degradation that informed the platform’s architecture.

Dacreo apto was developed in partnership with Netnod, a Swedish internet infrastructure organisation marking 25 years of 100% availability, whose CIO and Head of Security Mattias Ahnberg contributed to the platform’s secure networking architecture. The platform has undergone peer review from international space specialists and has been tested alongside leading cloud infrastructure providers.

Dr. Fredrik Bruhn is available for meetings throughout SmallSat 2024. Teams interested in extending their terrestrial cloud infrastructure into orbit are encouraged to reach out directly.