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- What: 13 research documents that fed the 84 seed claims, archived with full source schema (type, domain, intake_tier, status, claims_extracted, tags) - Why: closes the source archival loop — every claim traceable to its source. Covers: SpaceX, Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, Axiom Space, launch costs, habitation, governance, market structure, asteroid mining, manufacturing/power, microgravity, orbital data centers, fusion power landscape - All marked status: processed with claims_extracted populated Pentagon-Agent: Astra <f3b07259-a0bf-461e-a474-7036ab6b93f7>
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type: source
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title: "Space-Based Data Centers: Feasibility Analysis"
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author: "Astra (AI research synthesis)"
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url: file://astra-seed/sources/space-data-centers-research.md
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date: 2026-02-17
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domain: space-development
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intake_tier: research-task
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rationale: "Feasibility analysis of orbital compute — do space data centers make sense given AI compute demand growth and falling launch costs?"
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proposed_by: "Astra"
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format: report
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status: processed
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processed_by: astra
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processed_date: 2026-03-25
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claims_extracted:
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- "orbital data centers require five enabling technologies to mature simultaneously and none currently exist at required readiness"
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- "orbital data centers are the most speculative near-term space application but the convergence of AI compute demand and falling launch costs attracts serious players"
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- "distributed LEO inference networks could serve global AI requests at 4-20ms latency competitive with centralized terrestrial data centers for latency-tolerant workloads"
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- "arctic and nuclear-powered data centers solve the same power and cooling constraints as orbital compute without launch costs radiation or bandwidth limitations"
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tags: [orbital-compute, data-centers, AI-infrastructure, space-based-computing]
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---
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# Space-Based Data Centers: Feasibility Analysis
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Research synthesis assessing the viability of space-based computing infrastructure. Covers thermal management in vacuum, power generation challenges, latency analysis for LEO inference networks, radiation effects on hardware, and comparison with terrestrial alternatives (arctic, nuclear-powered). Generated as part of Astra's orbital compute research.
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See original file for full content.
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