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The largest orbital compute cluster is open for business - TechCrunch
Not a ground station. Kepler just deployed the first GPU cluster in orbit—and it's open for business.
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Why it matters
Orbital compute infrastructure is moving from theory to deployment. This shifts the economics of edge AI processing and distributed ML workloads, especially for latency-sensitive applications that can't wait for ground-based inference.
The key facts
5 to knowKepler Communications deployed first major GPU cluster in orbit
Sophia and Kepler collaboration on orbital compute demonstration
NVIDIA Space Computing Initiative enabling edge processing at scale
Optical links connecting orbital cluster to ground infrastructure
Published April 13, 2026 — claimed as operational/live service
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