Orbital Data Center Programs
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| Orbital | Startup | Concept | 1 | Reflex Aerospace selected as exclusive satellite platform partner | Pathfinder: hosted GPU payload on a Falcon 9 rideshare | USD 5 million | ||
| Edge Aerospace (ESA Space Cloud) | Startup | Payload demo flown | 4 | Redwire to manufacture its DPUs and switches in the US under license | — | Not disclosed | ||
| Cowboy Space Corporation | Startup | Concept | 1 | Reason-1 launched (power-beaming demonstration) | Reason-2: H200 GPUs and a laser data link | USD 325 million | ||
| SpaceBlast (JAXA orbital data center technology) | Startup | Funded study | 2 | Project kickoff with simulation demonstrations | — | Not disclosed | ||
| Orbital Chenguang (Beijing space data center) | Startup | Own satellite flown | 5 | Pre-A+ round led by Yuande Capital (amount undisclosed) | First computing constellation and key technologies | Not disclosed | ||
| Rocket Lab (supplier) | Supplier | Concept | 1 | Peter Beck: real opportunity, cautious on scale; no plan to operate data centers | Approximate | — | Not disclosed | |
| Pixxel and Sarvam AI Pathfinder | Startup | Concept | 1 | Partnership for an orbital data centre satellite announced | Launch Pathfinder | Not disclosed | ||
| Agnikul Cosmos and NeevCloud orbital edge data centers | Launch provider | Concept | 1 | Partnership announced for an orbital AI data centre platform | Approximate | Pilot launch (300 to 350 kg unit) | Not disclosed | |
| Atomic-6 (ODC.space) | Startup | Concept | 1 | ODC.space storefront reported | — | Not disclosed | ||
| Axiom Space Orbital Data Center | Startup | Payload demo flown | 4 | ODC Nodes 1 and 2 launched on Kepler Tranche 1 | AxODC Node ISS (petabyte-class, optical link) delivered to the ISS | Not disclosed | ||
| Blue Origin Project Sunrise | Launch provider | Concept | 1 | NASA objects to Project Sunrise at the FCC | TeraWave deployment begins (the backhaul Sunrise depends on) | Not disclosed | ||
| Lonestar Data Holdings | Startup | Payload demo flown | 4 | NASA Ames Space Act Agreement | First StarVault storage payload on Sidus LizzieSat-4 (Bandwagon-6) | USD 5 million | ||
| Madari Space | Startup | Concept | 1 | MoU with INNOSPACE (Korea) at Dubai Airshow | Pilot data center payload launch | Not disclosed | ||
| TakeMe2Space | Startup | Own satellite flown | 5 | MOI-1A launched on Transporter-18 | Two 100 kg orbital data center satellites (NVIDIA Thor, 100 TB) on Falcon 9 | USD 5 million | ||
| Sophia Space | Startup | Concept | 1 | Memorandum of understanding with Redwire on orbital data center infrastructure | Sophia software (SOOS) running on Kepler satellites | USD 13.5 million | ||
| Spacebilt | Supplier | Payload demo flown | 4 | Leads AxODC Node ISS design with Axiom | AxODC Node ISS delivery | Not disclosed | ||
| Planet Labs | Supplier | Own satellite flown | 5 | Launched the Suncatcher demo satellite with 19 other Planet satellites on Transporter-18 | Pair of Suncatcher satellites with Google | Not disclosed | ||
| NVIDIA Space Computing | Supplier | Payload demo flown | 4 | Joins Starcloud's Series A extension | Space-1 Vera Rubin Module availability | Not disclosed | ||
| Unibap SpaceCloud | Supplier | Payload demo flown | 4 | iX20 space computer introduced | — | Not disclosed | ||
| Hanwha Systems space AI data center plan | Prime contractor | Concept | 1 | Group plan announced: KRW 55T by 2040, about KRW 20T to Hanwha Systems | 64 SAR satellites operational (data source for the orbital data center) | Not disclosed |
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