Orbital Data Center Programs
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| Comospace, Hangsheng Satellite and Yanhe Technology compute demo | Consortium | Concept | 1 | — | Date not announced | Two-satellite high-power in-space compute demonstration | Not disclosed | |
| Google Project Suncatcher | Big tech | Own satellite flown | 5 | First Suncatcher prototype launched on Transporter-18; contact confirmed | Two-satellite mission testing inter-satellite laser links | Not disclosed | ||
| Amazon Web Services (orbital edge precursors) | Big tech | Payload demo flown | 4 | Starcloud says it will fly AWS Outposts hardware on Starcloud-2 | Approximate | — | Not disclosed | |
| Anthropic (prospective customer) | Big tech | Concept | 1 | Expresses interest in multi-gigawatt orbital compute with SpaceX | — | Not disclosed | ||
| Atomic-6 (ODC.space) | Startup | Concept | 1 | ODC.space storefront reported | — | Not disclosed | ||
| Booz Allen Hamilton (LLMs on the ISS) | Prime contractor | Payload demo flown | 4 | Space Llama: fine-tuned Llama 3.2 on SBC-2 | — | Not disclosed | ||
| D-Orbit ION in-orbit computing | Supplier | Payload demo flown | 4 | AWS and Unibap edge computing run on an ION carrier | Approximate | — | 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| OpenAI (skeptic) | Big tech | Concept | 1 | Altman: focused on building on Earth for now | — | 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 | |
| Satlyt | Startup | Payload demo flown | 4 | $8M seed | — | USD 8 million | ||
| SkyServe (STORM) | Startup | Payload demo flown | 4 | STORM deployed on Denali and Matterhorn missions | Approximate | — | Not disclosed | |
| SpaceBlast (JAXA orbital data center technology) | Startup | Funded study | 2 | Project kickoff with simulation demonstrations | — | Not disclosed | ||
| Unibap SpaceCloud | Supplier | Payload demo flown | 4 | iX20 space computer introduced | — | Not disclosed | ||
| 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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- SpaceNexus — Orbital data center programs (CSV): SpaceNexus compilation of orbital data center programs from public sources (CC BY 4.0); every fact cites its source.