SpaceX designed an orbital Vera Rubin. Radiation comes next.
The New Stack 1 month ago 51
SpaceX and Nvidia are adapting Nvidia’s Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale AI platform for Low Earth Orbit, with SpaceX planning its first launch as part of the Starmind AI satellite line. The target is a first launch in Q4 2027 (with significant scale planned for 2028). The effort shifts the system from an Earth rack assumption to an orbital one, raising new engineering work on closed-loop cooling and radiation tolerance rather than assuming the terrestrial design will simply carry over.