Company - LEOcloud
Product/Service
- Classification
- Space Utilities
- Category
- In-Orbit Data Storage
In-Orbit Computing
- Status
- Early stage, ?
- First launch
- 2025
LEOcloud to send Space Edge datacenter to ISS, SpaceNews, 2024-05-29.
- The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, which manages the International Space Station National Laboratory, is offering LEOcloud an opportunity to demonstrate its Space Edge Infrastructure as a Service.
- Under a cooperative agreement announced May 29, LEOcloud will install its first-generation Space Edge virtualized micro datacenter on ISS.
- “Our target is to get to the ISS by the end of 2025,” Dennis Gatens, LEOcloud CEO and founder, told SpaceNews by email.
- Through LEOcloud’s Service Management System, customers will be able to reserve cloud resources and migrate applications from the terrestrial cloud to the space-based cloud. Sierra Space, Microsoft and Red Hat are LEOcloud partners for the technology demonstration and commercialization project.
- LEOcloud also announced an agreement with Sierra Space to develop a roadmap for cloud services on Sierra Space’s inflatable Large Integrated Flexible Environment, Dream Chaser spaceplane and Sierra Space Station facilities.
Status Comment / Notes
Website is still offline as of early 2024 and last LinkedIn post from 6+ months ago.
As of May 2024, target is to get to the ISS by the end of 2025