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 checked2 hours ago
Figures computed 2 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 |
|---|---|---|
| US | 31 | 53% |
| CN | 9 | 15% |
| IN | 4 | 7% |
| AE | 2 | 3% |
| CA | 2 | 3% |
| JP | 2 | 3% |
| DE | 1 | 2% |
| FR | 1 | 2% |
| IL | 1 | 2% |
| IT | 1 | 2% |
| KE | 1 | 2% |
| KR | 1 | 2% |
| LU | 1 | 2% |
| PL | 1 | 2% |
| SE | 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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| HPE Spaceborne Computer | US | Big tech | Payload demo flown | 4 | Upgraded SBC-2 to the ISS on NG-20 with over 130 TB of flash | — | Not disclosed | |
| Three-Body Computing Constellation (Zhejiang Lab) | CN | 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 | |
| Aethero | US | Startup | Own satellite flown | 5 | Titan mission on EnduroSat FRAME-15 announced for October 2026 | Titan: Jetson Thor compute cluster on EnduroSat FRAME-15 | USD 8.4 million | |
| OrbitsEdge | US | Startup | Ground prototype | 3 | Syntilay and Copernic first orbital mission announced for early 2026 | Approximate | Edge1 first orbital mission | Not disclosed |
| Supersmartcompute (Super Intelligent Computing-1) | CN | 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 | |
| SkyServe (STORM) | IN | Startup | Payload demo flown | 4 | STORM deployed on Denali and Matterhorn missions | Approximate | — | Not disclosed |
| SpaceX orbital compute (with xAI) | US | Launch provider | Concept | 1 | Starship Flight 14 reaches orbit and deploys 26 Starlink V3 satellites | First orbital compute satellites | Not disclosed | |
| Firefly Aerospace (lunar-orbit compute host) | US | 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 | |
| Amazon Web Services (orbital edge precursors) | US | Big tech | Payload demo flown | 4 | Starcloud says it will fly AWS Outposts hardware on Starcloud-2 | Approximate | — | Not disclosed |
| Booz Allen Hamilton (LLMs on the ISS) | US | Prime contractor | Payload demo flown | 4 | Space Llama: fine-tuned Llama 3.2 on SBC-2 | — | Not disclosed | |
| Microsoft Azure Space (orbital edge precursors) | US | Big tech | Payload demo flown | 4 | Space Compass and Microsoft ship-detection demo cuts downlink by 98.1% | — | Not disclosed | |
| Astro Digital | US | Supplier | Payload demo flown | 4 | SPAC merger with Proem Acquisition Corp I announced | SPAC close and Nasdaq listing | Not disclosed | |
| Space Compass (NTT and SKY Perfect JSAT) | JP | 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 | |
| Apex (satellite buses) | US | Supplier | Concept | 1 | Selected by Sophia Space as bus supplier (Nova) | Sophia Space TILE demo on an Apex Nova bus | Not disclosed | |
| Relativity Space | US | Launch provider | Concept | 1 | Schmidt confirms on X that orbital data centers motivated the purchase | Approximate | — | Not disclosed |
| IBM and Red Hat (orbital software) | US | Supplier | Payload demo flown | 4 | RHEL 10.1 deployment on Voyager Space Edge (ISS) announced | — | Not disclosed | |
| Voyager Technologies / LEOcloud Space Edge | US | Startup | Payload demo flown | 4 | RHEL 10.1 deployment on Space Edge (ISS) announced | — | Not disclosed | |
| ASCEND study (Thales Alenia Space-led) | FR | Consortium | Funded study | 2 | Results: feasible if a launcher about 10x less emissive over its life cycle is developed | Continue the feasibility study to consolidate results | Not disclosed | |
| Meta (adjacent: Space Llama, space solar) | US | Big tech | Concept | 1 | Reserves up to 1 GW of space solar power from Overview Energy | Overview Energy orbital demonstration (supplier milestone) | Not disclosed | |
| Tiansuan Constellation (BUPT) | CN | 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 |
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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.