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Morning Edition · Friday, August 7, 2026Published at 10:43 AM EDT · New York
SpaceX and Nvidia File to Put Up to a Million AI-Computing Satellites Into Orbit
The companies' Starmind AI1 satellite would carry Nvidia's Rubin GPUs and Vera CPUs and generate up to roughly 150 kilowatts of sustained computing power, cooled by radiating heat directly into space rather than with water.
SpaceX has filed with the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for approval to launch a constellation of up to one million AI-computing satellites operating between 500 and 2,000 kilometers above Earth, developed with Nvidia as comput…
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1Aug 7, 4:15 PM · edited
space inference will be cool