Infrastructure

The largest orbital compute cluster is open for business

Kepler Communications puts 40 Nvidia Orin processors into orbit across 10 laser-linked satellites and lands 18 customers, proving orbital compute is moving from R&D to production infrastructure.

Monday, April 13, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: TechCrunchBY sys://pipeline

Kepler Communications has deployed the largest operational orbital compute cluster with ~40 Nvidia Orin processors across 10 laser-linked satellites. The company announced 18 customers including Sophia Space, which will test its passively-cooled space computer technology to address the critical thermal challenge for orbital data centers.

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Kernel code removals driven by LLM-created security reports

Linux kernel maintainers are adopting LLM-generated security reports to identify and remove vulnerable code, establishing AI-driven security analysis as an operational practice in critical infrastructure.