The orbital-compute effort is central to SpaceX's long-term growth pitch to investors, and the company claims in its IPO documents that it is "the only company with a commercially viable path to building orbital AI compute at scale". NEW YORK: SpaceX executives say the company is aiming to launch initial demonstrations of space-based artificial intelligence computing infrastructure by late 2027, ahead of the "as early as 2028" timeline for deployment disclosed in its IPO filing, according to