DevOps / SRE / Platform · 31.08.2026, 19:02 UTC
Elon Musk chose Vera Rubin for orbit. Now it must be redesigned for space.
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| Veröffentlicht | 31.08.2026 UTC |
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SpaceX and Nvidia say they are adapting the Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale AI platform for orbital use, with SpaceX targeting a first launch in the fourth quarter of 2027.
The dream of an AI data center in space lives on in SpaceX and Nvidia’s August 24 announcements that the platform for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Starmind AI satellites will be based on the Vera Rubin NVL72 chip family and architecture.
This proposed system would form the computing core of SpaceXAI’s first-generation Starmind AI satellite and extend Nvidia’s architecture from terrestrial AI data centers into space.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk posted on X the same day, “SpaceX, in partnership with Nvidia, has designed a space-optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 system for launch to orbit in Q4 next year, with significant scale in 2028.”
SpaceX, in partnership with Nvidia, has designed a space-optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 system for launch to orbit in Q4 next year, with significant scale in 2028 https://t.co/qdDq8YBkzl— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 24, 2026
Musk’s post came after he said during SpaceX’s Q2 earnings call, “Going forward, we’ve decided to build exclusively on Nvidia because we think the Vera Rubin architecture is the best architecture.” Musk continued, “This is not some sort of far-future, distant thing; we expect to start launching these next year. We think the design of the NVL72 VR computer is a much better design than, say, having a standard rack -style design. So we expect to deploy this on the ground as well as in orbit, because we think it’s going to be a radical simplification of the standard NVL72 …