Blue Origin Also Wants To Put Ai Data Centers In Space

Blue Origin has revealed its plans for an orbital AI information center strategy successful a caller filing pinch nan Federal Communications Commission. The institution has asked nan agency for support to deploy 51,600 satellites, arsenic reported by nan Wall Street Journal and SpaceNews. Called Project Sunrise, nan inaugural intends to motorboat and run a constellation of satellites that tin present computing capacity for artificial intelligence uses.

Project Sunrise’s satellites will beryllium placed successful sun-synchronous orbits astatine altitudes betwixt 311 and 1,118 miles. Each furniture successful nan constellation will person betwixt 300 to 1,000 satellites and will beryllium astir 3 to 6 miles apart. In its filing, Blue Origin said nan constellation would complement terrestrial information centers.

The satellites will, of course, will beryllium fitted pinch star panels to beryllium capable to stitchery power from nan sun. Blue Origin explained that nan orbital AI information halfway will little nan “marginal costs of compute capacity compared to terrestrial alternatives,” because nan satellites will beryllium powered by nan sun, won’t request onshore and won’t request grid infrastructure. Project Sunrise will “enable US companies processing and utilizing AI to flourish, accelerating breakthroughs successful instrumentality learning, autonomous systems and predictive analytics,” Blue Origin added.

By filing its petition pinch nan FCC, Blue Origin has officially joined SpaceX successful nan database of companies looking to build an AI information halfway successful space. In January, SpaceX asked nan FCC for support to deploy 1 cardinal satellites for its constellation. The institution justified astatine nan clip that “orbital information centers are nan astir businesslike measurement to meet nan accelerating request for AI computing power.”