Prime contractor · United States
It declared an LLM application operational on SBC-2 on 11 Jul 2024 and deployed Meta Llama 3.2 there in April 2025. It has announced no dated next step.
Stage 4 of 7: Payload demo flown
It declared an LLM application operational on SBC-2 on 11 Jul 2024 and deployed Meta Llama 3.2 there in April 2025.[1]
What the stage means: Compute or storage flown as a hosted payload or on the ISS. What flew here is software only.
DoneConfirmed
LLM application operational on SBC-2 (announced 1 Aug 2024)
Retrieval-augmented generation app; inference on the ISS, not a free-flying satellite.
Source: Nextgov
DoneConfirmed
Space Llama: fine-tuned Llama 3.2 on SBC-2
With Meta, HPE and NVIDIA.
Source: Meta
Targets as the organisation stated them. When a date moved, every move is listed with its source; a narrower window is shown as a narrowing.
No dated next step has been announced.
What to watch · SpaceNexus note, not a prediction
No further dated orbital AI deployment announced.
| Program | Stage | Verified funding | Next step |
|---|---|---|---|
| Booz Allen (this page) | Stage 4 of 7: Payload demo flown | Not counted | None announced |
| AWS | Stage 4 of 7: Payload demo flown | Not counted | None announced |
| Astro Digital | Stage 4 of 7: Payload demo flown | Not counted | Q1 2027: SPAC close and Nasdaq listing |
| Axiom Space | Stage 4 of 7: Payload demo flown | Not counted | 2027: AxODC Node ISS (petabyte-class, optical link) delivered to the ISS |
| D-Orbit | Stage 4 of 7: Payload demo flown | Not counted | None announced |
| Edge Aerospace | Stage 4 of 7: Payload demo flown | Not counted | None announced |
| HPE Spaceborne | Stage 4 of 7: Payload demo flown | Not counted | None announced |
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