Orbital Data Center Programs
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| Voyager Technologies / LEOcloud Space Edge | Startup | Payload demo flown | 4 | RHEL 10.1 deployment on Space Edge (ISS) announced | — | Not disclosed | ||
| Unibap SpaceCloud | Supplier | Payload demo flown | 4 | iX20 space computer introduced | — | 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 | |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| SpaceBlast (JAXA orbital data center technology) | Startup | Funded study | 2 | Project kickoff with simulation demonstrations | — | Not disclosed | ||
| Spacebilt | Supplier | Payload demo flown | 4 | Leads AxODC Node ISS design with Axiom | AxODC Node ISS delivery | 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| SkyServe (STORM) | Startup | Payload demo flown | 4 | STORM deployed on Denali and Matterhorn missions | Approximate | — | Not disclosed | |
| Shanghai Xingshu Tiansuan constellation | Startup | Concept | 1 | First-constellation design unveiled at WAIC | First satellite, Fuxi-1 | Not disclosed | ||
| Satlyt | Startup | Payload demo flown | 4 | $8M seed | — | USD 8 million | ||
| Rocket Lab (supplier) | Supplier | Concept | 1 | Peter Beck: real opportunity, cautious on scale; no plan to operate data centers | Approximate | — | Not disclosed | |
| Relativity Space | Launch provider | Concept | 1 | Schmidt confirms on X that orbital data centers motivated the purchase | Approximate | — | 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 |
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