NVIDIA Integrates Jetson Platform into Firefly Aerospace Lunar Mission and Delivers NIM 1.4 Performance Gains

Firefly Aerospace announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to integrate the Jetson platform into its Elytra spacecraft for processing high-resolution lunar imagery in orbit during the upcoming Blue Ghost Mission 2, scheduled for late 2026. The NVIDIA software stack, built on CUDA, will power AI models for lunar imaging service, enabling repeated mapping and change detection. Additionally, NVIDIA's NIM 1.4 microservices update achieved 2.6x throughput gains on H100 hardware, reaching 1,201 tokens/sec on Llama 3.1 8B versus 613 tokens/sec in standard deployments, supporting continuously updated optimized inference engines for DeepSeek, LLaMA, Mistral, and SDXL model families.