SOS · SPACE OPERATING SYSTEM · v3.96

A Linux kernel secured for what's next.

Every node is part of a quantum-secured cluster. Together they share compute, storage and communications, and run distributed intelligence on top — with the sensors and actuators of unmanned systems built in.

SOS Earth view with the network's oracles and super nodes — Earth view: oracles and super nodes, live

Quantum-secured kernel

Post-quantum, wired into the kernel itself.

SAI33 is registered as a loadable kernel module across the four critical Linux crypto subsystems — dm-crypt for disk, kTLS for transport, IPsec for tunnels, fscrypt for files. Post-quantum primitives wired into the kernel itself, not bolted on as a library.

dm-crypt

disk

kTLS

transport

IPsec

tunnels

fscrypt

files

Clusters & swarms

SOS orchestrates distributed services across nodes. Workloads route to the right cluster automatically — compute, agents, sensors, satellites.

CCSDS-native

Resources, links, and storage spoken in the same protocol satellites use. Your home node speaks the same language as orbit.

Open source

Auditable, forkable, reviewable. No closed firmware between you and the network. License: dual GPL/Apache.

Ground to orbit

Same OS on phone, laptop, Node IO, ground station, and satellite. One codebase. One trust boundary.

Release v3.96

Software, nodes and services, ready at once.

Sign in like opening a wallet

Nothing to install. An invite link carries the cluster key, a node finds its peers behind any router, and every node takes each release on its own.

NODE IO, the minimum unit

The 5 × 5 cm node on a Qualcomm 8550 — the same board on a desk, on a mast or in orbit. Plugged in, it is detected, updated, joined to its cluster and reporting.

Distributed storage

Files live across the nodes of a cluster rather than in a data centre — encrypted, replicated and available when a node, a carrier or a provider goes down. Every node that joins adds capacity.

Earth observation, inside the platform

Synthetic aperture radar with pass schedules over any marked site, submetric optical at 0.50 m and 0.30 m, hyperspectral tasking, and vessel and aircraft tracking — search, task, preview and download without leaving the app.

STORM, the console

GPU compute, hosting, CDN and satellite connectivity under one screen and one unit of account: ENERGY, priced in watt-hours on one ledger.

How it is built

No central server in the data path.

One program per participant is the app, a storage peer, a ledger participant, an agent host and a device manager at once — so no central server sits in the data path.
Profiles are encrypted in the browser with the user's own password.
Each cluster holds its own key, overlay, ledger and members, and nothing crosses clusters.
Two public oracles act as directory and relay without ever holding a key.

The STORM console inside SOS: cluster capacity, member nodes and orders in ENERGY — STORM: capacity and orders in ENERGY

Quantum key distribution, in real time

The key path is the product.

Any node, downloaded onto a laptop or flying in orbit, joins a cluster and receives its key through the NODE IO mainboard and nothing else. One path, one mainboard, on Earth and in space — real-time quantum key distribution as a service, with no change to the software, the ledger or the way a customer joins.

The distributed wideband ground-station network

A ground station is a node with its radios on.

Band, waveform and constellation are set in software and change with each release, not with new hardware. Ground-station nodes join a cluster like any other and sell contact time in ENERGY, so capacity grows with every unit shipped. NODE IO flew on 11 April 2026 aboard TLON Space's Aventura-1, executing a ledger transaction from orbit: ground node and space node are one product.

Pre-installed · free download

SOS ships pre-installed on every Node IO and is available as a free download for any Linux-capable device joining Storm.