Orbital이 Reflex Aerospace와 협력하여 우주 기반 데이터 센터 컨스텔레이션을 배포하며, Reflex는 미국 독점 접근권을 보유합니다.

Orbital Compute Inc. has selected German satellite manufacturer Reflex Aerospace as its satellite platform partner through a development agreement to deliver its Orbital-1 constellation of 100,000 data center satellites. Reflex will lead integration of the satellites using its proven bus design, which will become exclusive to Orbital, along with the associated technologies deployed across the constellation.

"Reflex brings a proven satellite-bus platform and an advanced engineering team capable of adapting it for orbital computing: hundreds of kilowatts of power, substantial heat rejection and volume production designed in from day one," said Euwyn Poon, founder and CEO of Orbital. "Data center developers are competing for scarce power, land and water. Space offers a path to scale beyond those terrestrial constraints, with abundant solar energy—but capturing that opportunity requires a fundamentally new kind of spacecraft."

Engineering teams at Orbital, based in Los Angeles, will work alongside Reflex's Berlin team to establish an integrated group. Together, they plan to produce a satellite with power levels approaching 250kW, which will deliver 100kW of compute capacity, totaling 10GW across the planned 100,000-satellite constellation.

"Our model is to move at maximum speed by working with the best in the world at every layer, from spacecraft platforms to manufacturing to launch," Poon said. "Reflex, as a proven European platform builder, is a cornerstone of that model, and we're proud to be its first US customer."

Orbital's pathfinder demonstration satellite is scheduled to launch in 2027, carrying NVIDIA's Blackwell chip to test GPU operation, radiation tolerance, thermal performance, and data downlink capabilities. The demonstrator will be approximately one one-hundredth the size of the full Orbital-1 satellites.

The company filed with the Federal Communications Commission for its orbital data center constellation in early July and awaits regulatory approval. The filing came shortly before the FCC voted to overhaul its licensing process into an "assembly line" model with a "presumed acceptable framework" that would grant applications such as Orbital's immediately, bypassing the traditional cross-examination process.

In mid-June, Orbital closed its pre-seed round, raising $5 million from 15 investors.