Orbital AI for urgent response

Process raw data in orbit before delay becomes damage

LeoTrek is building a distributed platform for AI workloads across low Earth orbit satellite clusters, so wildfire monitoring and other time-critical observation missions can move from raw data to action in minutes.

Mission focus

Fast orbital processing for wildfire monitoring and rapid alerts.

Deploy models, fuse sensing modalities, and prioritize urgent insights before full downlink.

In-orbit inference
Region-anchored monitoring
Minutes, not hours
Mission

Close the gap between sensing and action

Earth observation creates enormous value only when it arrives soon enough to change a decision. LeoTrek shifts compute closer to the sensor so satellite missions can support fast-moving events, persistent regional awareness, and new space-native software workflows.

Data reaches the ground too late

Downlink, routing, and post-processing add latency when every minute affects response quality.

Run urgent inference in orbit

Coordinate AI workloads directly across LEO assets and prioritize what matters most.

Actionable intelligence sooner

Deliver faster alerts, compressed insights, and better use of limited bandwidth.

Beyond wildfires

The same architecture fits disaster response, infrastructure monitoring, and other urgent EO workloads.

Why Now

The cost of waiting is measurable

Wildfires are the clearest example of why orbital compute matters. When insight arrives late, damage compounds across human safety, infrastructure, and climate.

22K early deaths linked to wildfire smoke
$215B global wildfire losses each year
200 → 12,500 ha possible wildfire spread in four hours
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Human and economic toll

Smoke exposure and damaged infrastructure already turn each fire season into a public-health and budget crisis.

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Escalating climate events

Larger burn areas and massive CO2 release show these events are compounding, not stabilizing.

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Minutes reshape outcomes

Detection latency changes containment options, dispatch quality, and how much land is ultimately lost.

More sensors, stronger onboard compute, and pressure for faster response make this the right moment to move EO intelligence from batch pipelines toward space-native execution.

Platform

Real-time intelligence in space

LeoTrek is designing a space-native orchestrator that lets EO developers deploy, schedule, and evolve EO workloads with far less operational friction.

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Distributed EO processing in LEO with performance guarantees

Run inference, filtering, and prioritization directly across orbiting satellite clusters, so urgent compute happens before full downlink.

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Region-anchored monitoring

Keep continuity over fixed areas of interest and surface time-critical events as new passes occur.

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Multi-source fusion and orchestration

Coordinate tasks across the constellation and combine thermal, optical, and contextual streams into one decision layer.

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Mission-free deployment

Deploy selected models and workflows without rebuilding the stack for each mission profile, then return prioritized alerts and outputs to the right teams.

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Simulation and validation

Test mission logic, workload placement, and model behavior before deployment so operators can validate latency, throughput, and operational tradeoffs earlier.

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Off-the-shelf AI services

Offer reusable optimization and inference services such as pruning, quantization, and deployment-ready packaging without requiring every team to build custom software stacks from scratch.

Scenario Preview

Local orbit simulation

A compact view of orbit nodes, assigned workflows, and computation moving inside the target area before full downlink.

Simulation clock Current UTC Iberian Peninsula
Business model potential: spare onboard compute can become an application layer for satellite operators, enabling AI-as-a-service and custom mission software beyond a single vertical use case.
Use Cases

Built for more than one emergency

Wildfire monitoring is the immediate wedge, but LeoTrek is relevant wherever Earth observation decisions are time-sensitive and bandwidth is scarce.

Wildfire response

Prioritize hotspots, fire spread indicators, and response-relevant updates without waiting for full raw-data transfer.

Disaster monitoring

Support floods, storms, and post-event damage assessment with faster orbital analytics.

Critical infrastructure

Monitor energy, transport, and industrial systems where earlier anomaly detection improves maintenance, planning, and incident response.

Continuous monitoring

Maintain regular visibility over locations of interest and detect meaningful change over time instead of treating every pass as an isolated event.

Research

Grounded in the Edge-Cloud Continuum Research

LeoTrek builds on published work in scheduling, serverless workflows, simulation, cost modeling, and hardware acceleration for AI workloads.

IEEE/ACM SEC 2024

Hyperdrive

Scheduling serverless functions across orbital and ground-adjacent compute layers. IEEE/ACM SEC, 2024.

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IEEE EDGE 2025 Simulator demo

Stardust

A scalable simulator for multi-layer distributed computing environments. IEEE EDGE, 2025.

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Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture 2025

Databelt

A continuous data path for serverless workflows across distributed compute tiers. Journal of Systems Architecture, 2025.

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IEEE SmartComp 2025

Cosmos

A cost model for serverless workflows spanning multiple compute layers. IEEE SmartComp, 2025.

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IEEE/ACM BDCAT 2025

Gaia

Hybrid hardware acceleration for serverless AI in distributed compute environments. IEEE/ACM BDCAT, 2025.

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ACM IoT 2025

Currus

A compound AI approach to distributed vehicle trajectory reconstruction. International Conference on the Internet of Things, 2025.

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Team

Team with deep-tech and financial expertise

Thomas Pusztai

Thomas Pusztai

Cynthia Marcelino

Cynthia Marcelino

Susanne Jäger

Susanne Jäger

Contact

Open to pilot programs, operator partnerships, and research collaboration

LeoTrek is interested in pilot deployments, operator partnerships, commercial validation, and research collaboration around time-critical orbital intelligence.

LEO operators Emergency response Research partners Investors
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