SpaceX Claims It Will Put a Vera Rubin NVL72 Rack-Scale System Into Orbit Next Year
Nvidia says each rack weighs about 4,000 pounds and SpaceX has not said which rocket will carry the system.
- SpaceX and Nvidia announced a partnership to launch a space-optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 system to orbit in Q4 next year, targeting significant scale by 2028.
- On Monday, Elon Musk announced the plan via the social network X, explaining that satellites will feed Grok models with up-to-date contextual data while accelerating agentic AI processing.
- Each Vera Rubin NVL72 system comprises 72 Rubin GPUs and 36 Vera CPUs housed in 18 compute trays, weighing roughly 4,000 lbs or 1,800kg.
- Although SpaceX has not specified which rockets will carry the equipment, the Falcon 9 has a 22,800 kg capacity, though engineers must address radiation-hardening challenges.
- Musk has a history of ambitious predictions facing delays; The New York Times recently found he delivered on 19 percent of public promises made in prior announcements.
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technewstube.comSpaceX claims it will put a Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale system into orbit next year
SpaceX will send at least one datacenter rack into space next year, according to Elon Musk, with more to follow in 2028. The occasional trillionaire made that claim on Monday on the user-generated content platform – a.k.a. the social network X – that he runs in part to feed the Grok models SpaceX develops with up-to-date contextual data. “SpaceX, in partnership with Nvidia, has designed a space-optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 system for launch to orb…
SpaceX plans to launch its first artificial intelligence (AI) satellite utilizing NVIDIA chips as early as the fourth quarter of next year. The long-term vision is to establish AI data centers in space by deploying satellites on a large scale. On the 24th (local time), SpaceX CEO Elon Musk stated via X that the company is collaborating with NVIDIA to design the ‘Vera Rubin NVL72 System’ tailored to the space environment, and that next year's fou…
Musk announced the launch of SpaceX orbital data centers in late 2027. The first SpaceX satellites with artificial intelligence are planned to be launched in late 2027. The network should reach significant scale in 2028.
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