Orbital Data Center Programs
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| Space Compass (NTT and SKY Perfect JSAT) | Startup | Payload demo flown | 4 | Selected for JAXA Space Strategy Fund, up to JPY 23.5B through March 2031 | Launch HummingSat GEO optical relay | Not disclosed | ||
| Meta (adjacent: Space Llama, space solar) | Big tech | Concept | 1 | Reserves up to 1 GW of space solar power from Overview Energy | Overview Energy orbital demonstration (supplier milestone) | Not disclosed | ||
| Pixxel and Sarvam AI Pathfinder | Startup | Concept | 1 | Partnership for an orbital data centre satellite announced | Launch Pathfinder | 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 | ||
| Anthropic (prospective customer) | Big tech | Concept | 1 | Expresses interest in multi-gigawatt orbital compute with SpaceX | — | Not disclosed | ||
| IBM and Red Hat (orbital software) | Supplier | Payload demo flown | 4 | RHEL 10.1 deployment on Voyager Space Edge (ISS) announced | — | 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 | ||
| Voyager Technologies / LEOcloud Space Edge | Startup | Payload demo flown | 4 | RHEL 10.1 deployment on Space Edge (ISS) announced | — | Not disclosed | ||
| OpenAI (skeptic) | Big tech | Concept | 1 | Altman: focused on building on Earth for now | — | Not disclosed | ||
| Muon Space (Condor-Ultra bus) | Supplier | Concept | 1 | Condor-Ultra platform unveiled | Condor-Ultra pathfinder delivery | Not disclosed | ||
| SpaceBlast (JAXA orbital data center technology) | Startup | Funded study | 2 | Project kickoff with simulation demonstrations | — | Not disclosed | ||
| Apex (satellite buses) | Supplier | Concept | 1 | Selected by Sophia Space as bus supplier (Nova) | Sophia Space TILE demo on an Apex Nova bus | 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 | ||
| KP Labs (Leopard DPU) | Supplier | Own satellite flown | 5 | Collaboration with Parsimoni (Leopard plus SpaceOS) | Leopard DPU on ESA OPS-SAT VOLT | Not disclosed | ||
| Shanghai Xingshu Tiansuan constellation | Startup | Concept | 1 | First-constellation design unveiled at WAIC | First satellite, Fuxi-1 | Not disclosed | ||
| Three-Body Computing Constellation (Zhejiang Lab) | Research lab | Pathfinder constellation | 6 | Two satellites report an 8-day continuous laser link | 10 computing satellites this year (2 launched by October) | 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 | ||
| Edge Aerospace (ESA Space Cloud) | Startup | Payload demo flown | 4 | Redwire to manufacture its DPUs and switches in the US under license | — | Not disclosed | ||
| Rocket Lab (supplier) | Supplier | Concept | 1 | Peter Beck: real opportunity, cautious on scale; no plan to operate data centers | Approximate | — | Not disclosed |
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