Signal Orbital and lunar data centre payloads have reached early flight tests
Summary
Deloitte reports companies developing on-orbit compute that runs on solar power and radiates heat directly into space, removing cooling water entirely, with some having completed early flight tests of lunar data centre payloads.
Classification
Main topicSpace & Mobility
Region menusGlobal
Occurrencescope:global
Impactscope:global
Time horizon0-3 years (2026-07-26)
Last updated2026-07-29 04:49:53
Evidence 1
- Tech Trends 2026: As technology innovation and adoption accelerate, five trends reveal how successful organizations are moving from experimentation to impact Deloitte Insights (Deloitte Development LLC, US Office of the CTO) page=41;section=The AI infrastructure reckoning: Optimizing compute strategy in the age of inference economics / Sustainable data center innovation 2025-12 accessed 2026-07-26
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