Integrated · the network
Compute and comms, same envelope.
Transmitting a bit costs more than computing one. So the network is built around the inference, not the other way around. Every tile is a node and a relay. The mesh and the bus are the same graph.
In progress
Full deep-dive lands next.
The link budget. The decisions-not-data downlink ratio. The inter-satellite optical mesh that doubles as the system bus. Why a separate "comms layer" and "compute layer" is a Cartesian artifact of terrestrial economics, not a physical requirement.
Worked examples: an EO inference pipeline that downlinks one decision per swath instead of one image per swath. A persistent-mesh broadcast architecture that costs orders of magnitude less per bit-delivered than store-and-forward.