Elon Musk's first-gen orbital data center craft spans wider than a Boeing 747 and runs an interchangeable chip payload

2026-06-10

SpaceX's AI1 satellite will have a 70-meter deployed wingspan and carry a 150 kW peak compute payload. It will have an interchangeable hardware design that will let different chipmakers supply the processors. The craft will operate at roughly 600 km. SpaceX has already filed with the FCC to launch up to a million orbital data center satellites.