Redwire’s latest whitepaper examines the challenges and opportunities associated with scaling orbital data centers (ODCs), with a focus on power generation and thermal management. ODCs could eventually surpass terrestrial data centers by leveraging abundant solar energy in space and avoiding Earth-based infrastructure limitations.
The whitepaper examines the scaling of power and thermal systems for ODCs within a single-spacecraft architecture and highlights how the future success of ODCs will depend on treating power and thermal management as primary architectural drivers from the earliest stages of design.
Drawing on decades of Redwire’s spaceflight heritage in deployable structures, high-power solar arrays, and thermal management systems, the in-depth study also highlights how existing flight-proven technologies can support practical and scalable orbital compute architectures.
Download Redwire’s newest whitepaper for a deep dive into how ODCs could support the exponential growth in global demand for compute and fuel the next era of the data-driven economy.
