United States · ISS demonstration
This project focuses on testing computing hardware aboard the International Space Station.
HPE's ISS demonstration program tests commercial computing in orbit. It includes SBC-2, a January 2024 locker carrying more than 130 TB of Kioxia SSDs, and subsequent AI experiments. Historical hardware generations and prospective lunar extensions remain separate.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise · Demonstration program
Scope: Shared computing & storage · A multi-application orbital computing platform and demonstration program. Future lunar deployments remain separate.
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Supplier-disclosed launched SSD capacity with explicit component inventory and decimal TB definitions. Not RAM, formatted usable capacity, customer data volume or current availability.
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Primary source ↗Figures retain their disclosed units and scope. Launched hardware does not establish demonstrated performance; targets may change. Not disclosed means no figure in the reviewed sources.
SSD sponsorship and hardware supply for Spaceborne Computer-2.
Supplier describes sponsorship. Do not treat it as a disclosed paid procurement contract.
Announced 27 Feb 2023 · Evidence checked 26 Sept 2026
Kioxia supports HPE Spaceborne Computer-2 (opens in a new tab)Research participant
Program organization: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
PartnershipMicrosoft Azure-supported DNA-sequencing research using HPE Spaceborne Computer-2, with a later NASA/HPE/Microsoft AI test for astronaut-equipment damage as another disclosed collaboration example.
Historical research collaboration identified in HPE's own timeline. August 18, 2021 is the dated partnership entry, not a verified agreement-execution date. The May 3, 2022 test is a later example, not a separate paid order. Legal buyer, monetary value, license terms, exact work allocation and present commercial service are undisclosed.
Announced 18 Aug 2021 · Evidence checked 27 Sept 2026
HPE Spaceborne Computer timeline: Microsoft research collaboration (opens in a new tab)Manual review 31 Oct 2026. Compared HPE's historical design account and KIOXIA's launched SSD inventory. Reconciled the storage metric to more than130TB with separate component counts, added local interfaces and fan/wiring protection, and kept the historical DNA workload outside configuration-specific comparisons. Primary body last observed 18 Oct, 00:40 UTC. Source monitoring: blocked. Source collection and substantive profile review are separate checks. Plans and dates may change.
NASA Spinoff · Spaceborne Computer (opens in a new tab)Verified announcements and milestones linked to this project, newest first.
NASA reports that HPE’s first Spaceborne Computer completed its ISS mission using software monitoring of commercial hardware, and describes the Edgeline and ProLiant systems aboard SBC-2. Its February 2025 account also says OrbitsEdge signed an agreement to use Edgeline 8000 in a planned 1,000 W SatFrame satellite and bought several units for development.
HPE records an ISS generative-AI model demonstration.
Retrofitted locker carried more than 120 TB of SSDs.
Kioxia says its SAS and NVMe SSDs support HPE Edgeline and ProLiant systems used by Spaceborne Computer-2 for edge-computing and AI experiments aboard the ISS.
HPE records activation of the Edgeline and ProLiant system.
HPE records return of the original mission hardware.
HPE reports its first Spaceborne Computer achieved a teraflop benchmark.
