Company - Kepler Communications
Product/Service - Optical Service, Ku-band Service, S-band Service
- Classification
- Space Utilities
- Category
- In-Space Communications Relay
- Fields
- In-Space Internet
Edge Computing
- Status
- Development, Launched
- First launch
- 2023
Edge Computing
Kepler Announces On-Orbit Compute Capacity on Optical Data Relay Network , 2025-04-07.
- Announced that it will sell high-capacity on-orbit compute capabilities enabled by its optical data relay constellation, The Kepler Network.
- Under Kepler’s on-orbit compute offering, customers may lease or purchase computing hardware onboard Kepler’s optical data relay satellites.
- Each Kepler satellite hosts edge computing payloads with advanced processing units and storage available for customers to utilize.
- Kepler to purchase two initial on-orbit computing payloads for Axiom Space’s ODC business. Axiom Space’s first two ODC nodes will fly on Kepler’s optical data relay network, establishing the foundation for space-based cloud computing.
Status Comment
Æther 1 and Æther 2 test satellites with optical laser communications were launched on Transporter-9 in November 2023, but successful demonstration has not been announced as of late 2023.
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News, Research, Projects and Patents
| Title | Type | Date | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kepler Open Source Interference Analysis tool (KOSIA) | Software | > Computes perceived radiofrequency interference between two orbital systems. For each system, the user must specify its desired frequency, antenna, and orbital characteristics, as well as simulation parameters (e.g. epoch, timestep resolution). |
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