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Oct 26, 2026
Spaceborne Computer-4 will ride Astrolab's lunar rover. Ai2 released global satellite embeddings, and a Korean CubeSat ran an AI anomaly check in orbit.
Oct 19, 2026
Orbital compute returns as hardware this week, while Perseverance's onboard navigation takes the off-world driving record and a startup pivots fully to spacecraft autonomy.
Oct 12, 2026
ESA opened a 24-billion-parameter Earth model to the public. PhiSat-2 ran marine anomaly detection onboard, and a Nuri cubesat is recording what a commercial edge-AI device does in orbit.
Oct 5, 2026
One rideshare carried the orbital-compute thesis and onboard AI together: Trillium and Nvidia silicon up top, Altair-1 below.
Sep 28, 2026
Project Suncatcher's four Trillium chips launch October 1, days after China's own orbital AI nodes, and AstroForge flies a mission with no commands from Earth.
Sep 21, 2026
Sale-and-leaseback comes to orbit; a 100,000-satellite constellation names its builder; and AI shifts from ground control to the spacecraft itself.
Sep 14, 2026
SpaceX confirms a space-optimized Nvidia rack for orbit as hosting revenue climbs; NASA and IBM open-source a lunar model and a startup pitches low-compute AI.
Sep 7, 2026
A foundation model that reads sunlight off orbiting satellites, an on-satellite anomaly detector, and a lightweight rover terrain model — plus China's first space-computing hub.
