Space AI is not a service you log into. It is a network you run a piece of — and this page takes you from nothing at all to a machine of your own, watching the places you care about from orbit, while you sleep.
You will meet these on every screen. They are simpler than they sound, and nothing else on this page assumes you know anything.
Nothing is installed in this part, and nothing here is hard to undo. The only step you cannot come back to later is the second one.
Go to spaceai.net/app and press Register. An email address or a wallet is enough — there is nothing to pay and no card to enter.
You are then asked for a password of your own, twice. Choose one you can keep: it encrypts your profile in your browser, before anything reaches a server. That is what makes the data yours, and it is also why we cannot reset it for you.
Leave the cluster field empty. You will land in Open Space Net, the public cluster, which is the right place to start. If you would rather have a private one from day one, type a name for it here instead and you become its admin.
It is shown once. Write it down somewhere that is not the computer you are sitting at.
Because your password never leaves your browser, this code is the only way back to your data if the password is lost. Two minutes now buys you the right never to think about it again.
Everything else on this page can wait until tomorrow. This cannot: a profile with no recovery code and a forgotten password is gone, and there is no support queue that can change that.
Open Detection & Monitoring and add a site — a field, a port, a well pad, a vessel, the roof you are sitting under. The app answers with the next satellite pass over it, and every pass after that.
New accounts arrive with a small ENERGY balance, the credit that pays for imagery. The console shows it as nE. It is enough to watch the thing work; a cluster admin can send you more, and you can buy more when you need it.
You now have an account, a way back into it, and something to watch. Everything below exists for one reason: to keep it all running when your browser is closed.
In a browser, Space AI works while you are there. A node works while you are not — it watches your sites around the clock, keeps your cluster's files replicated, and is the address your hardware reports to. You need one computer that stays switched on: Windows, Mac or Linux, an ordinary desk machine is fine.
The box at the top holds your link and its key, each with a Copy button. This is the same link you will one day send to a colleague — their machine joins exactly the way yours is about to.
Everything after #t= is the cluster key. Anyone holding the whole link can join your cluster, so send it privately and never post it anywhere public.
Paste the whole link into a browser on that computer. The page recognises the operating system and offers the right thing:
From there it runs itself: it asks where to install, sets up Node.js if the machine has none, downloads the node software over a secure connection, makes a desktop icon, starts the node, and opens the app at http://localhost:8777. The cluster and its key are already inside the installer, so there is nothing to type and nothing to configure. Your node finds the others on its own, even behind a home or office router.
The page that just opened looks identical, but it is served by your computer now, not by ours. Sign in with the same account and password. Your profile arrives from the cluster, so your sites, files and balance are already there waiting.
After that the node looks after itself. Every few minutes it checks the network for a newer build, takes it, and restarts. You will never update it by hand.
Close the browser whenever you like — the node keeps working. To stop it entirely, close its window or use the desktop icon again.
None of these are needed to be up and running. Come back to them when you have a reason.
Send a colleague the same link you used, and their machine joins the same cluster. What you mark stays private to you; to share a site, a cluster admin creates a subnet under Manage cluster and you pick it on the site's own panel.
Plug a SPACE AI device in by USB, or power it on the same Wi-Fi. The wizard finds it, updates its firmware, writes the settings onto the device itself, and tells you when its first report lands.
Satellite Services is where Hubble and Iridium links are set up, alongside the cluster's nodes, subnets and governance. Storage — the 🗄 icon — holds the cluster's files and your own private imagery.
If a colleague sent you a link, you are starting a step ahead — the account already exists and the cluster is already chosen. Read this instead of step 1.
The part after #t= is the cluster key, which makes the whole link a password. Send it privately; never put it somewhere public.
Almost every problem at this stage is one of these, and none of them break anything.
| What you see | What it means | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| “Permissioned cluster” where the join page should be | The link lost its key somewhere between being sent and being opened, or the key is wrong. | Use the complete link, everything after #t= included. Ask whoever sent it for a fresh one if you are unsure. |
| The installer says a download failed | That machine cannot reach spaceai.net. | Check its internet connection and any corporate proxy, then run the installer again. Nothing is left half-installed. |
| “Wrong password” on your own node | Usually a typo. Otherwise the profile on that machine is older than the one you last used elsewhere. | Try once more — the node fetches the newest copy from the cluster as it goes. If it still refuses, use your recovery code. |
| You are in Open Space Net when you expected your own cluster | You signed in on a node that is not in your cluster, or on spaceai.net without a cluster assigned. | Sign in again with the invite link pasted into the cluster field. |
| A device sits at “Configuration” and never moves | The address stored on the device is not one it can reach by itself. | Run the NODE IO wizard again from a computer on the same Wi-Fi as the device. |