COMPANIES · SPACE INFRA
Axiom Space
Axiom Space is a Houston company building Axiom Station, a commercial successor to the International Space Station, and flying private astronaut missions. Alongside that it has started an Orbital Data Center line: a computing unit called AxDCU-1 has been operating aboard the ISS since August 2025, and two further nodes launched in January 2026.
Axiom Space is a Houston company building Axiom Station, a commercial successor to the International Space Station, and flying private astronaut missions. Alongside that it has started an Orbital Data Center line: a computing unit called AxDCU-1 has been operating aboard the ISS since August 2025, and two further nodes launched in January 2026.
Axiom is one of the very few organizations with computing hardware actually running in space rather than on a slide, and it markets AI and machine-learning processing on orbit. It is listed here as AI-adjacent deliberately: the company's economics are a space-station and astronaut-mission business, and the data center line is at demonstration scale.
NASA, national governments, research organizations and commercial customers pay Axiom for astronaut missions, space-station modules, spacesuits and hosted payloads.
United States
Space and next-generation infrastructure. Launch providers, satellite builders and operators, ground networks and the first attempts at running computing in orbit. Most of these companies have no AI business today; they are on this map because of what they carry, connect or build for the companies that do. Open the space lens.
Connections (4)
Every connection below is tied to a readable source, date, classification and statement of its limits. A company source establishes what that company stated; it does not necessarily provide independent confirmation.
Dated or announced (2)
Source: 2025-09-25 · reviewed 2026-09-24
Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced; not confirmed operating
Limits: A contract award for future delivery. The value is not disclosed, no hardware is established as delivered or flown, and the 2027 launch date is a target rather than a scheduled event.
Redwire Awarded Contract to Provide Roll-Out Solar Arrays for Axiom Space's First Space Station Module ↗Source: 2025-04-07 · reviewed 2026-09-24
Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced; not confirmed operating
Limits: An announcement of a planned deployment. It does not disclose commercial terms, the compute capacity involved, or, at the date of this source, that the nodes had launched or were operating; it also does not establish any exclusivity between the two companies.
Axiom Space to Launch Orbital Data Center Nodes to Support National Security, Commercial, International Customers ↗Comparisons (2)
Source: 2025-09-16 · reviewed 2026-09-24
Evidence: Analytical comparison · Product/market overlap
Limits: The cited source does not name Starcloud. The two take different approaches - a station-hosted unit versus free-flying satellites - and this does not establish compute capacity, customers, pricing or revenue for either.
Axiom Space, Spacebilt Announce Orbital Data Center Node Aboard International Space Station ↗Source: 2024-06-20 · reviewed 2026-09-24
Evidence: Analytical comparison · Product/market overlap
Limits: The cited source does not name Axiom Space, and is more than two years old. Neither station has flown; this does not establish NASA funding levels, schedules, customer commitments or the relative maturity of the two programs.
Starlab Space Announces Strategic Partnership with Palantir Technologies, Inc. ↗Axiom Space, Spacebilt Announce Orbital Data Center Node Aboard International Space Station ↗
Reviewed
Inclusion in this database is not an endorsement of a company or its securities. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell anything, and none of it is individualized investment advice. See the disclosures. Data: AI Map v3.22, released .