Tag: Nvidia
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Orbital Data Centers: What’s Proven, What’s Still a Promise
Orbital data centers have attracted sweeping claims, but the flight evidence remains limited. Three programs help separate demonstrated capabilities from future ambitions: Starcloud’s H100 satellite and rapidly rising valuation, SpaceX’s AI1 satellite concept, and HPE’s Spaceborne Computer, which has flown to the International Space Station on three missions. Here is where the evidence stands as…
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From Server Racks to Constellation-Scale Computing Networks
Launch costs and heat rejection are two of the biggest expenses facing orbital data centers. At the engineering level, the challenge comes down to four interconnected questions: how to power an orbital server rack, remove its waste heat, keep it operating through faults, and schedule workloads when that rack becomes a network of 100 or…
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Orbital Data Centers: The Economics of Moving Computing Into Space
Moving a data center into space sounds like science fiction. But by 2026, a satellite carrying an NVIDIA H100 GPU has already trained an AI model in orbit, and investors have valued the company behind it at $2.3 billion. This article examines the accounting: where revenue comes from, where costs accumulate, and what it would…
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Commercial Space: China’s Domestic Chips Are Winning This Space Race
Ground-based AI chips are a game built around Nvidia’s CUDA ecosystem, and any challenger must contend with developer ecosystems, compute benchmarks and framework compatibility. But in space, an opportunity has emerged to reshuffle the AI compute chip landscape — the competitive dynamics of space-based computing differ from those on the ground, and Nvidia holds no…
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SpaceXAI Selects Nvidia Vera CPUs to Power Agentic AI on Earth and Future Orbital Computing Systems
SpaceXAI has selected Nvidia’s Vera CPU architecture and the broader Vera Rubin platform to support its next-generation agentic artificial intelligence infrastructure, marking a significant expansion of the partnership between Elon Musk’s AI ambitions and Nvidia’s rapidly growing AI computing ecosystem. The announcement positions Nvidia’s first CPU specifically designed for AI agents at the center of…
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Starcloud Secures $250 Million to Expand Orbital Data Center Ambitions Amid Growing Launch Capacity Crunch
Starcloud has raised a $250 million extension to its Series A financing round, giving the orbital computing startup fresh capital as it races to deploy space-based AI infrastructure in an increasingly competitive launch market. The new funding values the company at approximately $2.3 billion and comes just months after Starcloud achieved unicorn status with a…
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AiRanaculus Wins NASA Contract to Advance Lunar Communications Technologies
Networking technology company AiRanaculus has secured a US$5 million contract from NASA to further develop communications technologies designed for future lunar and cislunar missions. The award, announced on 25 June under NASA’s Civilian Commercialization Readiness Pilot Program (CCRPP), will support the advancement of the company’s CLAIRE and INSPiRE platforms over a 24-month development programme. Advancing…
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Orbital Raises $5 Million to Develop Distributed Space-Based AI Data Center Network
Los Angeles-based startup Orbital has raised $5 million in a pre-seed funding round to support the development of a space-based computing network aimed at providing artificial intelligence processing capabilities from orbit. The funding round was led by Speedrun, the startup accelerator operated by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), and included participation from a broad group of venture…
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Muon Space Unveils Condor-Ultra Satellite Platform for Orbital Data Center Applications
Muon Space has introduced Condor-Ultra, a new high-power satellite platform designed to support emerging orbital computing, networking and space infrastructure applications. The platform expands the company’s Condor family of spacecraft, which already includes the Condor-M and Condor-XL satellite platforms. Designed for High-Power Space Missions Condor-Ultra is designed to deliver significantly more power than Muon Space’s…
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Vast Expands Into Satellite Bus Market With High-Power Spacecraft Platform
Vast said it will enter the satellite bus market with a new high-power spacecraft platform aimed at commercial, Earth observation and national security missions. The company announced plans to offer a 15-kilowatt-class satellite bus designed for high-volume and lower-cost deployment across a range of orbital applications. Vast also said customers will have the option to…