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Each mission is a set of physics-anchored targets your design has to hit. Completing all targets applies a reward multiplier to your score. Browse by theme — every category maps to a real piece of the multi-planetary roadmap.

Compute & AI4 missions

Orbital data centers and edge AI inference.

Compute & AI

AI Inference at the Edge

Edge-inference satellite with a tight compute-mass budget: ≤ 4 kg/kW of compute, ≥ 50 kW design, holding a working orbit in the FCC AI-sat shell.

★★★difficulty 3×1.4 reward
  • Design compute ≥ 50 kW
  • Compute mass ≤ 4 kg/kW
  • Altitude ≥ 500 km
  • Altitude ≤ 2000 km
  • Avg power ≥ 35 kW
Compute & AI

Orbital AI Cluster

Single Starship launch carrying a swarm of high-kW AI sats. Keep each bus mass low enough that 4× of them fit under one 150 t reusable LEO payload, and hold ≥70 kW design power per bus.

★★★★difficulty 4×1.6 reward
  • Design power ≥ 70 kW per bus
  • Design power ≤ 150 kW per bus
  • Compute density ≤ 5 kg/kW
  • Array ≤ 600 m² (fits 4× per Starship bay)
  • Altitude ≥ 500 km
  • Altitude ≤ 1500 km
  • Avg power ≥ 50 kW
Compute & AI

Orbital Data-Center MVP

Minimum viable orbital data center. ≥ 150 kW design compute, high uptime (eclipse ≤ 25 %), and an array credible enough to carry it (≥ 200 W/kg specific power).

★★★★difficulty 4×1.7 reward
  • Design compute ≥ 150 kW
  • Eclipse fraction ≤ 25 %
  • Avg delivered power ≥ 110 kW
  • Specific power ≥ 200 W/kg
Compute & AI

Continuous Operations Champion

Minimum eclipse, maximum uptime. Operate at very low umbral fraction (≤15 %) so the AI compute load almost never throttles — the configuration TERAFAB-class operators will pay for first.

★★★★★difficulty 5×1.8 reward
  • Eclipse fraction ≤ 15 %
  • Avg power ≥ 75 kW
  • Design power ≥ 90 kW
  • Altitude ≥ 600 km
  • Altitude ≤ 2000 km