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Canada's Kepler Communications has launched the largest operational orbital compute cluster with 40 Nvidia processors across 10 satellites, marking the emergence of practical space-based edge computing for data processing at the point of collection. While large-scale orbital data centers remain a decade away, the near-term opportunity focuses on distributed inference workloads for satellite sensors, particularly for defense applications like missile tracking and synthetic aperture radar. As terrestrial data center construction faces regulatory challenges, space-based computing infrastructure is positioning itself as a viable alternative for specific workloads requiring low-latency processing of space-collected data.