Supply chain / Space-based
Starcloud
A company that put a data-centre GPU on a small satellite as a test of orbital computing. Reported by trade press as launched in November 2025; larger orbital data centres are proposals only.
- Type
- Company
- Where it sits
- An early demonstration of orbital compute; there is no public service for buyers.
- Constraint
- Trade press reports an expected mission life of about 11 months at low orbit, and the larger multi-gigawatt facility is only a proposal (DatacenterDynamics).
- Maturity
- Prototype
What we checked
- NVIDIA's blog describes Starcloud-1 as a roughly 60 kg satellite carrying an H100 GPU, intended to run an open language model and process Earth-observation data in orbit. (source)
- DatacenterDynamics reported that the satellite launched on 3 November 2025 and that the company's chief executive said it was operating normally (reported). (source)
Written by ComputeFinder from public pages on 2 October 2026. Company statements are the company's own, not independently checked, and reported items are marked as such. Not yet reviewed line by line by a second person. If something is wrong, tell us.