Orbital Data Center Programs
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| Satlyt | Startup | Payload demo flown | 4 | $8M seed | — | USD 8 million | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| OpenAI (skeptic) | Big tech | Concept | 1 | Altman: focused on building on Earth for now | — | 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 | |
| CASC and CAST space computing plan | Prime contractor | Concept | 1 | CASC plan via CCTV: gigawatt-class space digital-intelligence infrastructure | Experimental 10 kW-class computing satellite (about 1,000 kg) | 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 | ||
| Kepler Communications (Kepler Compute) | Startup | Operational service | 7 | Compute opened to commercial customers | Next tranche across multiple launches, including a dedicated Rocket Lab launch, with up to 100 Gbps links | Not disclosed | ||
| Muon Space (Condor-Ultra bus) | Supplier | Concept | 1 | Condor-Ultra platform unveiled | Condor-Ultra pathfinder delivery | Not disclosed | ||
| 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 | ||
| Reflex Aerospace (Orbital-1 platform) | Supplier | Concept | 1 | Exclusive design-and-development agreement with Orbital | Launch Orbital-1 | Not disclosed | ||
| Ramon.Space | Supplier | Ground prototype | 3 | Expanded Ingrasys partnership for orbital data center infrastructure | Fly early samples | Not disclosed | ||
| Anthropic (prospective customer) | Big tech | Concept | 1 | Expresses interest in multi-gigawatt orbital compute with SpaceX | — | 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Shanghai Xingshu Tiansuan constellation | Startup | Concept | 1 | First-constellation design unveiled at WAIC | First satellite, Fuxi-1 | 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 | ||
| K2 Space | Supplier | Concept | 1 | Gravitas (first Mega class, 20 kW) launched and operating | Operational commercial and national security constellations begin deployment | 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 | ||
| Unibap SpaceCloud | Supplier | Payload demo flown | 4 | iX20 space computer introduced | — | 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.