Orbital Data Center Programs
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| ADA Space Star Compute | Startup | Pathfinder constellation | 6 | Departure ceremony for the first 8 Group 02 satellites | Deploy Group 02 and Group 03 computing satellites | 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 | ||
| Orbital | Startup | Concept | 1 | Reflex Aerospace selected as exclusive satellite platform partner | Pathfinder: hosted GPU payload on a Falcon 9 rideshare | USD 5 million | ||
| Reflex Aerospace (Orbital-1 platform) | Supplier | Concept | 1 | Exclusive design-and-development agreement with Orbital | Launch Orbital-1 | 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Astro Digital | Supplier | Payload demo flown | 4 | SPAC merger with Proem Acquisition Corp I announced | SPAC close and Nasdaq listing | 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 | ||
| Firefly Aerospace (lunar-orbit compute host) | Launch provider | Concept | 1 | Starcloud signed for lunar-orbit AI computing demo on Blue Ghost Mission 3 (Elytra) | Blue Ghost Mission 3 launch carrying SC-1L | 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 | ||
| 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 | |
| Altair constellation (Loft Orbital, Marlan Space, Orbitworks) | Consortium | Own satellite flown | 5 | Altair-1 launched on Transporter-18; signal acquired, commissioning | The other nine satellites of the first ten | 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Satlyt | Startup | Payload demo flown | 4 | $8M seed | — | USD 8 million | ||
| Cowboy Space Corporation | Startup | Concept | 1 | Reason-1 launched (power-beaming demonstration) | Reason-2: H200 GPUs and a laser data link | USD 325 million | ||
| Comospace, Hangsheng Satellite and Yanhe Technology compute demo | Consortium | Concept | 1 | — | Date not announced | Two-satellite high-power in-space compute demonstration | Not disclosed |
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