Orbital Data Center Programs
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| HPE Spaceborne Computer | Big tech | Payload demo flown | 4 | Upgraded SBC-2 to the ISS on NG-20 with over 130 TB of flash | — | 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 | ||
| K2 Space | Supplier | Concept | 1 | Gravitas (first Mega class, 20 kW) launched and operating | Operational commercial and national security constellations begin deployment | 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Microsoft Azure Space (orbital edge precursors) | Big tech | Payload demo flown | 4 | Space Compass and Microsoft ship-detection demo cuts downlink by 98.1% | — | Not disclosed | ||
| Muon Space (Condor-Ultra bus) | Supplier | Concept | 1 | Condor-Ultra platform unveiled | Condor-Ultra pathfinder delivery | Not disclosed | ||
| NVIDIA Space Computing | Supplier | Payload demo flown | 4 | Joins Starcloud's Series A extension | Space-1 Vera Rubin Module availability | Not disclosed | ||
| OpenAI (skeptic) | Big tech | Concept | 1 | Altman: focused on building on Earth for now | — | Not disclosed | ||
| Orbital | Startup | Concept | 1 | Reflex Aerospace selected as exclusive satellite platform partner | Pathfinder: hosted GPU payload on a Falcon 9 rideshare | USD 5 million | ||
| OrbitsEdge | Startup | Ground prototype | 3 | Syntilay and Copernic first orbital mission announced for early 2026 | Approximate | Edge1 first orbital mission | 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 | ||
| Relativity Space | Launch provider | Concept | 1 | Schmidt confirms on X that orbital data centers motivated the purchase | Approximate | — | Not disclosed | |
| Rocket Lab (supplier) | Supplier | Concept | 1 | Peter Beck: real opportunity, cautious on scale; no plan to operate data centers | Approximate | — | Not disclosed | |
| 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 | ||
| SpaceX orbital compute (with xAI) | Launch provider | Concept | 1 | Starship Flight 14 reaches orbit and deploys 26 Starlink V3 satellites | First orbital compute satellites | Not disclosed | ||
| Starcloud | Startup | Own satellite flown | 5 | Firefly signs Starcloud SC-1L lunar-orbit compute payload | Two Starcloud-2 satellites (8 kW each) on rideshare | USD 433.4 million | ||
| Voyager Technologies / LEOcloud Space Edge | Startup | Payload demo flown | 4 | RHEL 10.1 deployment on Space Edge (ISS) announced | — | Not disclosed |
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