Orbital Data Center Programs
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About this dataset
Records published59
Record types1
Dated records58 (98%)
Date range1 Jan 2022 – 1 Oct 2026
Last checked10 hours ago
Figures computed 10 hours ago, when the dataset last changed.
- Values
- 8
- Median
- USD 8.2 million
- Smallest
- USD 5 million
- Largest
- USD 433.4 million
- Total
- USD 803.3 million
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| Month | Records |
|---|---|
| 2022-01 | 1 |
| 2022-02 | 0 |
| 2022-03 | 0 |
| 2022-04 | 0 |
| 2022-05 | 0 |
| 2022-06 | 0 |
| 2022-07 | 0 |
| 2022-08 | 0 |
| 2022-09 | 0 |
| 2022-10 | 0 |
| 2022-11 | 0 |
| 2022-12 | 0 |
| 2023-01 | 0 |
| 2023-02 | 0 |
| 2023-03 | 0 |
| 2023-04 | 0 |
| 2023-05 | 0 |
| 2023-06 | 0 |
| 2023-07 | 0 |
| 2023-08 | 0 |
| 2023-09 | 0 |
| 2023-10 | 0 |
| 2023-11 | 0 |
| 2023-12 | 0 |
| 2024-01 | 2 |
| 2024-02 | 0 |
| 2024-03 | 0 |
| 2024-04 | 0 |
| 2024-05 | 0 |
| 2024-06 | 1 |
| 2024-07 | 0 |
| 2024-08 | 0 |
| 2024-09 | 0 |
| 2024-10 | 0 |
| 2024-11 | 0 |
| 2024-12 | 0 |
| 2025-01 | 0 |
| 2025-02 | 0 |
| 2025-03 | 0 |
| 2025-04 | 2 |
| 2025-05 | 1 |
| 2025-06 | 1 |
| 2025-07 | 0 |
| 2025-08 | 0 |
| 2025-09 | 1 |
| 2025-10 | 0 |
| 2025-11 | 1 |
| 2025-12 | 1 |
| 2026-01 | 2 |
| 2026-02 | 2 |
| 2026-03 | 2 |
| 2026-04 | 5 |
| 2026-05 | 6 |
| 2026-06 | 4 |
| 2026-07 | 4 |
| 2026-08 | 4 |
| 2026-09 | 12 |
| 2026-10 | 6 |
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| By category | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Concept | 24 | 41% |
| Payload demo flown | 17 | 29% |
| Own satellite flown | 10 | 17% |
| Pathfinder constellation | 3 | 5% |
| Funded study | 2 | 3% |
| Ground prototype | 2 | 3% |
| Operational service | 1 | 2% |
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| By country | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 31 | 53% | |
| 9 | 15% | |
| 4 | 7% | |
| 2 | 3% | |
| 2 | 3% | |
| 2 | 3% | |
| 1 | 2% | |
| 1 | 2% | |
| 1 | 2% | |
| 1 | 2% | |
| 1 | 2% | |
| 1 | 2% | |
| 1 | 2% | |
| 1 | 2% | |
| 1 | 2% |
- Values
- 8
- Smallest
- USD 5 million
- Median
- USD 8.2 million
- Mean
- USD 100.41 million
- Largest
- USD 433.4 million
- Middle half
- USD 5 million – USD 91.38 million
- Total
- USD 803.3 million
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| Range | Records |
|---|---|
| USD 5 million – USD 90.68 million | 6 |
| USD 90.68 million – USD 176.36 million | 0 |
| USD 176.36 million – USD 262.04 million | 0 |
| USD 262.04 million – USD 347.72 million | 1 |
| USD 347.72 million – USD 433.4 million | 1 |
- Day 86% 50
- Month 12% 7
- Year 2% 1
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| Date precision | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Day | 50 | 86% |
| Month | 7 | 12% |
| Year | 1 | 2% |
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| Pixxel and Sarvam AI Pathfinder | Startup | Concept | 1 | Partnership for an orbital data centre satellite announced | Launch Pathfinder | 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 | ||
| PowerBank and Smartlink AI (Orbit AI) | Startup | Concept | 1 | Genesis-1 launch claimed (company release; unverified) | 5 to 8 more satellites | Not disclosed | ||
| Ramon.Space | Supplier | Ground prototype | 3 | Expanded Ingrasys partnership for orbital data center infrastructure | Fly early samples | Not disclosed | ||
| Reflex Aerospace (Orbital-1 platform) | Supplier | Concept | 1 | Exclusive design-and-development agreement with Orbital | Launch Orbital-1 | 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 | |
| Shanghai Xingshu Tiansuan constellation | Startup | Concept | 1 | First-constellation design unveiled at WAIC | First satellite, Fuxi-1 | Not disclosed | ||
| SkyServe (STORM) | Startup | Payload demo flown | 4 | STORM deployed on Denali and Matterhorn missions | Approximate | — | Not disclosed | |
| 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 | ||
| Space String (Space.IDC Computing Constellation) | Startup | Own satellite flown | 5 | Agricultural Bank of China and ICBC sign RMB 5B credit lines each | G1 verification satellite (11.5 kW compute payload) | Not disclosed | ||
| Spacebilt | Supplier | Payload demo flown | 4 | Leads AxODC Node ISS design with Axiom | AxODC Node ISS delivery | Not disclosed | ||
| SpaceBlast (JAXA orbital data center technology) | Startup | Funded study | 2 | Project kickoff with simulation demonstrations | — | 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 | ||
| Supersmartcompute (Super Intelligent Computing-1) | Startup | Own satellite flown | 5 | Super Intelligent Computing-1 launched on Kinetica-1 Y18 with 8 other satellites | Advance large-scale constellation deployment | 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 | ||
| Tiansuan Constellation (BUPT) | Research lab | Pathfinder constellation | 6 | Reported at 16 LEO satellites and 7 ground stations, over 60 institutions supported | Approximate | Phase 2: 24 satellites; Phase 3: 300 satellites | 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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