Axiom is gearing up to launch its first two Orbital Data Center (ODC) nodes this year to dramatically increase processing power.
“Our ODC nodes will soon be open for business. We have agreements in place with users around the world to deploy initial, space-based cloud services, not just demonstrations of capabilities,” cofounder and interim CEO Kam Ghaffarian said in a statement. “We are also closely monitoring national security needs, especially the US Golden Dome initiative.”
The enabler: Many sectors of the space industry predict that AI and machine learning will help process the unprecedented amount of data collected in orbit. The ODC nodes will help enable that, Jason Aspiotis, Axiom’s global director of in-space data and security, told Payload.
Once Axiom’s network of nodes is fully built—which will include “a lot more” nodes, though Aspiotis declined to provide a specific number—officials will get insights from space data in seconds instead of hours or days. The ODCs will also enable data to be processed in orbit, without having to downlink lots of information to Earth.
Use cases: Other potential use cases, according to Aspiotis, include:
- Quickly combing through space traffic management data.
- Providing a maximum security storage space for entities to back up critical data, such as banking information.
