Uppsala, Sweden / Kanagawa, Japan, Feb 5, 2026

BruhnBruhn Innovation has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (MELCO) and Blue Marble Communications (BMC), establishing a formal framework for collaboration in onboard information processing for space systems. The agreement was announced at the Kanagawa Space Summit in Japan, with representatives from the Swedish Embassy present at the signing.

The MOU brings together three organisations with complementary capabilities, each contributing a distinct layer of the emerging digital space infrastructure. Blue Marble Communications provides onboard processing hardware and performance optimisation for space-grade computing. BruhnBruhn Innovation contributes middleware and software for container-based operations and integration, including space-compatible Kubernetes environments through the Dacreo product family and support for mission application development. Mitsubishi Electric Corporation integrates these technologies and leads development, demonstration, and deployment for both governmental and commercial space applications.

The collaboration also includes joint work on studying and promoting a user interface standard for onboard space systems, aimed at supporting a broader ecosystem of operators and application developers across the industry.

“For us, this collaboration is an important step,” said Karolina Bruhn, CEO of BruhnBruhn Innovation. “It brings together strong industrial capability, deep technical expertise, and creates opportunities to build future digital space systems together. It is a solid step toward more resilient space operations over time.”

The signing brings together three organisations that have been building toward a shared vision of cloud-native space infrastructure. BBI and BMC have collaborated extensively on the development and validation of Dacreo apto, with BBI’s CTO Dr. Fredrik Bruhn personally overseeing integration and testing on BMC’s Space Edge Processor in California. Mitsubishi Electric, one of Japan’s leading satellite developers, brings the scale and systems integration capability to translate these technologies into operational missions for both government and commercial customers.

The announcement was made in the presence of Sweden’s Defence Attaché to Japan, Lt. Col. Mika Ihalainen, reflecting the growing strategic significance of resilient onboard space computing for Allied nations.

Pictured at the signing: Sweden’s Defence Attaché to Japan Lt. Col. Mika Ihalainen, Neal Nicholson CEO of Blue Marble Communications, Senior Executive Director Arai-san of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, and Dr. Fredrik Bruhn, Professor Emeritus and CTO of BruhnBruhn Innovation.

Uppsala, Sweden, Dec 10, 2025

🎗️ We are excited to share that BruhnBruhn Innovation has been selected as one of only 150 companies to join the NATO DIANA 2026 Challenge Programme Cohort—chosen from a record-setting 3,680 applicants across the Alliance ✨.

Our solution, Dacreo® apto – a cloud-native, hardened Kubernetes environment for resilient on-orbit operations, was selected under the Resilient Space Operations challenge area. Dacreo apto enables distributed autonomy, secure real-time processing, and reduced bandwidth dependency—critical capabilities for next-generation battle management, command, communications, and control.

Over the next six months, we will work closely with a NATO DIANA-affiliated Accelerator Site and DIANA’s network of experts, mentors, and test centres to refine our solution and adapt it to operational needs. This programme provides a unique opportunity to deepen our technological readiness, strengthen our understanding of defence and dual-use markets, and validate our capabilities within world-class NATO test environments.

We look forward to engaging with end users early, co-developing new mission applications, and shaping a pathway toward adoption by NATO and Allied forces—together with partners and supporters enabling our vision of Cloud Everywhere, including Blue Marble Communications, T2S Solutions, Netnod, our fellow NATO DIANA alumni SaraniaSat and Rymdstyrelsen (the Swedish National Space Agency) to mention a few.

We congratulate our fellow innovators and are excited to embark on this journey together.

Discover the full 2026 cohort here:
https://lnkd.in/eMHcMDWa

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.

We are happy to announce that our CTO, Dr, Fredrik Bruhn, will be attending the Small Satellite Conference (SmallSat) – again!

Since 2006, this conference has been a cornerstone event in the small satellite industry. We eagerly await reuniting with friends, customers, partners, and community members at this year’s gathering. We look forward to engaging in productive discussions and exploring innovative collaborations in the ever-evolving world of small satellites.

Contact us to schedule a meeting!

Blue Marble Communications Inc (BMC) and BruhnBruhn Innovation AB (BBI) are delighted to unveil a revolutionary advancement in Generative AI capabilities for space assets. This groundbreaking achievement, made possible through a collaboration focused on radiation-hardened compute hardware and advanced AI software frameworks, sets a new standard for space technology and operations.

Read more and watch videos on the Dacreo product page

The BBI Dacreo software stack for AMD Ryzen7 4000 and V2000 series of APUs enables advanced AI operations using the onboard GPU for devices such as the Space Edge Processor.

Blue Marble Communication Inc Space Edge Processor in flight configuration (FM). The SEP is in high-volume manufacturing.

The introduction of the BMC Space Edge Processor (SEP), equipped with AMD’s cutting-edge 7 nm V2000 series accelerated processing unit (APU) and Versal Prime FPGA technology, marks a significant milestone. This hardware, when combined with BBI’s innovative AI software orchestration stack Dacreo, showcases a pioneering step towards achieving true cloud-native operations and cognitive autonomy in deep space. BBI’s Dacreo AI software stack for AMD Ryzen 7 4000 and V2000 series devices is based on a tailored AMD ROCm open-source compute stack, to fully harness onboard GPUs for artificial intelligence applications and enable cloud-native functionalities, including Kubernetes in space.

Live demonstration at Satellite 2024 show in Washington DC

To demonstrate the power of the Dacreo software stack in combination with the SEP radiation hardened solution, a number of containerized cutting-edge AI capabilities have been developed and being demonstrated live at the Satellite 2024 show in Washington DC.

Astronaut Co-pilot assistant application demo

BBI Dacreo GPT: An interactive astronaut co-pilot powered by an onboard Meta Llama 2 large language model, illustrating the Dacreo ecosystem vast AI capabilities on radiation hardened computers offloaded on the GPU. The Dacreo GPT is developed and tested at the BBI Space Kubernetes Laboratory.

See through clouds capability – Real-time SAR processing and object detection application demo

AIKO Dacreo GPT deepSAR: A real-time Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) stripmap processing and object detection application, highlighting the importance of onboard SAR processing for quick insights in challenging environments. The application is part of the new onboard data processing suite presented by AIKO and has been developed and tested at the BBI Space Kubernetes Laboratory.

Its that time a year again! March and Satellite conference and exhibition in DC.

Our CTO will be there and brings a Generative AI surprise. Book a meeting by dropping us an email.

Our dedicated engineering team has been hard at work, and we’re thrilled to share the successful delivery of an Innovative AI Edge solution to yet another prominent North American space company.

This milestone represents a significant leap forward for our artificial intelligence capabilities to radiation-hardened space computers, empowering cutting-edge onboard data processing applications.

“We embraced the challenge of creating a cutting-edge data processing software solution on an incredibly tight timeline. Not only did we meet the challenge head-on, but we also exceeded expectations by delivering ahead of schedule. This underscores our commitment to piloting the edge and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in onboard AI capabilities. It is truly an amazing experience working with brilliant boundless minds,” says Dr. Fredrik Bruhn, our CTO.

This achievement underscores our unwavering dedication to pushing the boundaries of AI and edge computing technologies. We have demonstrated on customer provided data processing hardware that we can provide robust, thoroughly tested, validated, and optimized solutions that precisely align with the unique demands of aerospace missions and applications.

We’re excited about the future, and we can’t wait to continue elevating the potential of edge computing and AI in the aerospace industry, together with our valued clients, partners, and talented team members.

Software defined satellites – What can we expect in the near feature

BBI’s CTO, Dr Fredrik Bruhn, will be presenting at an internal agency wide NASA industry S3VI day seminar on software defined satellites on December 7th hosted at NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.
Software-defined satellites offer unparalleled flexibility, adaptability, and efficiency, enabling new space missions that were previously impossible or impractical.

The presentation will take a wide look at the future of AI supported space infrastructure and exploration, based around the transformational example of a state-of-the-art 7nm radiation hardened American space computer for cloud computing and AI, and emphasize the advantages of utilizing cloud-native principles and technologies such as Generative AI in satellite application development. The seminar will include a live demo session.

Are you wondering how software defined satellites differ from traditional satellites?

Software defined satellites are a new generation of satellites that leverage modern computing technologies, such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML), to enable unprecedented levels of flexibility, adaptability, and efficiency. These satellites are based on modular and scalable designs, which allow for easy customization and rapid deployment.

In contrast to traditional satellites, which are typically designed with fixed hardware configurations, software defined satellites can be reconfigured on-the-fly based on mission requirements. This means that they can quickly adapt to changing conditions, such as changes in weather patterns or new scientific discoveries. Additionally, software defined satellites can leverage advanced data analytics and machine learning algorithms to optimize their performance and improve their efficiency.

Overall, software defined satellites offer a wide range of benefits, including greater flexibility, scalability, and adaptability, as well as improved performance and efficiency. As such, they are poised to play a significant role in the future of space exploration and satellite communications.

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