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Nick Destrycker and Wouter Benoot in the EDGX lab in Ghent
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Trends features EDGX in its One Million Club

In its One Million Club series, Trends profiles EDGX. Co-founder Wouter Benoot explains why it is smarter to process satellite data on board.
October 30, 2026
EDGX engineer at a laptop in the lab, wearing a sweater that reads “sky-high intelligence”
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EDGX launches AI computing platform in orbit on SpaceX Transporter-16 using NVIDIA Accelerated Computing

Our first two payloads have been in orbit since March 2026, on SpaceX Transporter-16. Two more missions, with Sterna and Morus, are booked for 2027.
October 28, 2026
The EDGX team in the new office in Ghent
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Our new office in Ghent, with our own lab

In January 2026 we moved to a bigger office in the centre of Ghent. It gives our growing team more room, and our lab is part of it.
January 15, 2026
EDGX closes a €2.3 million seed round, backed by the imec.istart future fund and PMV
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EDGX raises €2.3 million and signs its first commercial deal

Our €2.3 million seed round is co-led by the imec.istart future fund, with participation from the Flanders Future Tech Fund (PMV). We also signed our first fully commercial deal.
August 11, 2025
The STERNA computer
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With ESA support, we start building STERNA

With support from ESA's ARTES programme, we start developing STERNA: an off-the-shelf AI computer made fit for space, to process satellite data in orbit.
February 1, 2024
The imec.istart autumn 2023 cohort
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EDGX joins the imec.istart accelerator programme

EDGX joins the autumn 2023 cohort of imec.istart. We are building an onboard AI computer, so satellites can send down answers instead of raw data.
November 23, 2023

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Contract signed at ESAC for IRIS² studies
Today at ESAC, Madrid, we signed a contract for IRIS² Low-LEO Pre-operational and De-risking Activities, part of ESA's Programme Related to EU Secure Connectivity, together with NXGSAT. IRIS² is the EU's €15.6bn secure …
September 17, 2026
Paris next week 🇫🇷
EDGX will be at the World Space Business Week, September 14–17. WSBW is where the commercial space industry comes to talk strategy, deals, and direction. Exactly the conversations that matter right now as orbital compute …
September 9, 2026
Back to the USA 🇺🇸
EDGX will be at the 40th Annual Small Satellite Conference (SmallSat) — August 23–26, Salt Lake City. The theme of this year couldn't be more fitting: The cloud above the clouds. Orbital compute infrastructure is no longer a …
August 10, 2026
On Via Satellite's list of 10 smallsat startups to watch in 2026
Three years ago: a mission to enable compute in space. Today: STERNA flight-proven in orbit, MORUS next, and a compute layer for space taking shape.
August 4, 2026
An MoU with TerraSpark: putting spare satellite power to work
A space-based solar power satellite in low orbit is always moving. When there's no receiver in view, like over an ocean, the energy it's making has nowhere to go. So what do you do with that power? You put it to work onboard. …
June 23, 2026
EDGX is heading to SmallSat Europe in Amsterdam 🇳🇱
Nick Destrycker, Benjamin Etard, Gilles Lefranc and Joran Heldens will be on the ground, come find us at booth 462. Two of our engineers are presenting their research at the technical program: Gilles Lefranc, Tuesday May 26 at …
May 22, 2026
NVIDIA lists EDGX on its Space Computing page
Our Sterna flight computer is listed, alongside orbital data center platforms, autonomous spacecraft systems, and some of the most ambitious infrastructure companies operating above the Kármán line today like Starcloud, Kepler …
May 12, 2026
Sebbe Van der Smissen on stage at ESA's CommEO Forum in Seville 🇪🇸
He'll be joining the panel "From Space Data to Orbital Intelligence", a discussion on the market potential, technical realities, and business challenges of commercial cloud computing in space. These are the conversations that …
May 11, 2026
We watched our in-orbit demonstration
We flew to California to watch something we built leave the planet. This is that moment, in two minutes...
May 5, 2026