Little Place Labs

Precise Space Insights, when and how the world needs them.
Houston

About Little Place Labs

Little Place Labs builds and deploys edge AI/ML software on a distributed network of satellites to deliver real-time insights from space for time-sensitive decision-making, across national security & commercial sectors. We have completed multiple in-orbit missions, and have traction in $4M of awards with the US DoD, including a new TACFI award (Tactical Funding Increase from the US Space Force). We are in the final rounds of the X-Prize Wildfire Challenge, and have closed multiple commercial pilots. Looking forward, we will extend our capabilities to enable a marketplace for in-orbit compute that also supports autonomous operations, SDA, encrypted communications, and more.

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Problem statement

Geospatial insights from remote sensing satellites are extremely slow & prohibitively expensive. Traditionally, raw data from satellites must be transmitted to Earth for processing, resulting in substantial time lags of hours & days, and high data downlink costs. These delays hinder timely decision-making in critical areas such as disaster response, national security, and asset monitoring, where rapid access to information is essential. We address this challenge by processing data at its source. We build ultra-low SWaP (size, weight, & power) AI/ML software that is designed to process satellite data in real-time on the resource-constrained hardware on satellites or other space assets. Instead of downlinking GBs of raw satellite data (which takes immense time & costs) LPL’s software extracts useful insights from the data on board the satellite, and downlinks only KBs of actionable text files (eg. coordinates, perimeter, intensity of a wildfire) within 7 minutes. We are scheduled to deploy our software on 50+ satellites in the next 36 months, across a network of partner satellites.

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December 2026

2026 Year Milestone

By the end of 2026, LPL will focus on establishing itself as the leading provider of real-time satellite-based insights. By scaling Orbitfy across 10+ partner satellites, integrating diverse data types, including optical, HSI, SAR, thermal, and more, and consistently delivering alerts in under 7 minutes, we aim to become the dominant player in high-impact, time-critical use cases, with a revenue of $3M+. This phase targets urgent scenarios across sectors such as defense, maritime surveillance, disaster management, insurance and finance, driving sustainable revenue and long-term market leadership.

May 2025

Secured TACFI

Our TACFI (Tactical Funding Increase) proposal for $2M was selected by the U.S. Space Force. This funding will accelerate development of our automated tasking and insight delivery capability, along with integration across partner satellites to enable low-latency, cross-constellation tasking. The selection validates both the mission-critical value and defense need for our capabilities, which also extend to commercial use cases such as disaster response, maritime domain awareness, and asset monitoring.

April 2025

Released a Maritime Pilot Program

We released a near real-time solution that detects and classifies vessels in under 1 hour from capture, leveraging our edge computing software on Sidus Space’s Lizziesat constellation. PR here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250417510449/en/Sidus-Space-Enables-Little-Place-Labs-Near-Real-Time-Maritime-Intelligence-with-LizzieSat-Powered-Vessel-Detection-Solution

August 2024

In-Orbit Demonstration (on YAM-6 satellite of Loft Orbital)

In-orbit demonstration on Loft’s YAM-6 started (currently ongoing), as part of our Phase 2 STTR contract with the US Air Force. The mission was to detect adn and classify vessels in near-real time, with latest demo delivering insights within 25 minutes from capture by the satellite. Read more here: https://spacenews.com/little-place-labs-and-loft-orbital-to-test-analytics-in-orbit/

July 2024

XPrize Wildfire Challenge Final Rounds (Active)

We have advanced to the final rounds (currently active) in the $7M XPRIZE Wildfire Competition. We are partnering with 3 global companies (autonomous drones, IoT sensors, and AI-enabled cameras) to detect and suppress wildfires in near real time. Read more here: https://www.littleplace.com/post/fire-foresight-successfully-enters-the-next-round-of-xprize-wildfire-challenge

February 2024

Won a Phase 2 STTR Contract with the US Air Force

Secured a Phase 2 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Contract for Advancing Space-Based Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance and In-Orbit Machine Learning Computing Read more here: https://www.littleplace.com/post/little-place-labs-awarded-a-1-8m-afwerx-sttr-phase-ii-contract

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Currently raising capital

Total raised to date:$590,000

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