American company Starcloud Inc. Starcloud says its data rcs data center satellite will receive large amounts of raw data from other spacecraft.
then use artificial intelligence to process it for transmission to Earth.
In France.
the rocket and space technology manufacturer Thales Alenia Space ran the Ascend research project as part of the European Commission’s Horizon Europe program in 2023-2024. Its objective was to demonstrate the technical feasibility and environmental benefits of deploying a high-power data center in space.
In mid-2024. the Ascend initiators concluded that space data centers are economically and environmentally feasible if the carbon emissions from launch vehicles can be impact of software development on reduced by about 10 times. The Ascend project’s final proposal was the idea of launching 1 GW of data center capacity into space over the next 25 years.
Wary glances
Technical Director mobile list of JSC “Data Storage Center” (RTK-TsOD) Alexey Zbrodin believes that there can be no data centers or corresponding technologies in space at the moment. “can exist for solving local