teleo-codex/inbox/archive/2026-02-17-astra-space-data-centers-research.md
m3taversal 8d3460f9e0 astra: archive 13 seed source documents with proper schema
- 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

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source Space-Based Data Centers: Feasibility Analysis Astra (AI research synthesis) file://astra-seed/sources/space-data-centers-research.md 2026-02-17 space-development research-task Feasibility analysis of orbital compute — do space data centers make sense given AI compute demand growth and falling launch costs? Astra report processed astra 2026-03-25
orbital data centers require five enabling technologies to mature simultaneously and none currently exist at required readiness
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
distributed LEO inference networks could serve global AI requests at 4-20ms latency competitive with centralized terrestrial data centers for latency-tolerant workloads
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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Space-Based Data Centers: Feasibility Analysis

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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