Satellite & Space Infrastructure
Stop treating satellites like dumb terminals. Start building orbital infrastructure that thinks for itself.
You're building LEO constellations, deep space networks, satellite mesh systems. But your satellites still phone home for basic decisions. Your spectrum coordination happens through manual APIs that can't keep up with orbital dynamics. Your data routing breaks the moment ground links go down.
Space infrastructure needs space-native data management.
Source gives you a verifiable database that runs directly on satellites — no ground dependency, no custom sync protocols, no single points of failure. With DefraDB, your orbital nodes become autonomous: they coordinate spectrum usage, route data peer-to-peer, and maintain cryptographic verification across communication gaps.
The Technical Debt That Kills Innovation
You came here to build distributed space systems, not to debug ground-based bottlenecks:
Your satellites work great — until they need to coordinate without ground control
Spectrum conflicts get discovered hours later because coordination happens through centralized registries
Data routing depends on ground stations that create latency and failure points
Cross-party data sharing requires building custom access control for every mission partner, government agency, and commercial operator
You're writing authorization logic for satellite-to-satellite, satellite-to-ground, and multi-tenant data access scenarios
AI models can't learn collaboratively across constellations because federated learning breaks during communication gaps
Compliance and audit trails mean custom logging systems for every regulatory jurisdiction and mission requirement
Debugging distributed state across orbital networks means waiting for telemetry dumps
Every ground dependency and every custom governance system limits what your distributed space systems can actually accomplish.
Build space systems that actually work in space
DefraDB embeds directly on satellite compute modules.
No more custom protocols. No more waiting for ground contact to resolve conflicts. No more choosing between autonomous operation and data consistency.
What becomes possible:
Autonomous spectrum coordination
Satellites use conflict-free data structures to coordinate frequency usage and handoffs in real-time
Peer-to-peer data routing
Direct satellite-to-satellite data transfer without ground relay dependencies
Verifiable state management
Every allocation and data transfer is cryptographically signed and conflict-free
Cross-platform coordination
CRDTs handle synchronization across different satellite platforms and operators
Distributed AI training
Enable federated learning across constellations with automatic handling of communication gaps
Communication-gap resilience
Satellites operate with full context during extended blackout periods
Distributed debugging
Time-travel queries let you reconstruct system state across the entire orbital network
Stop building custom coordination and sync protocols for satellite networks
Deploy one database architecture from satellites to ground stations to mission control
Handle spectrum coordination, data routing, and ML model sync with built-in conflict resolution
Debug distributed state across orbital networks with verifiable history
Integrate with existing flight software, AI frameworks, and ground control systems
Infrastructure built for orbital constraints
Resource-optimized
Runs on satellite compute modules with strict power and memory limits
Delay-tolerant coordination
Handles variable latency and communication gaps across orbital networks
Cryptographic verification
Every data change is signed and verifiable without central authorities
Schema evolution
Update data formats across heterogeneous satellite fleets without breaking coordination
Multi-transport support
Works over radio, optical links, or any available communication method