How to track orbital data center projects, launches and partnerships

Updated 2026-11-12 · Data and API builders · by CyberMax

Short answer

Orbital data center projects are announced by companies and agencies with launch targets that move. Keep one table of projects with the source for each claim, the target launch date and status, and record each change with its date. The Orbitwren tracker does this; the weekly digest is free.

Start from the tracker table of projects.
Read each project's source before citing it.
Watch launch-date changes and launches.
Subscribe to the free weekly digest or the Alerts feed.

Copy-paste code

Data: CyberMax dataset on Hugging Face; load it with the datasets library (pip install datasets)

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("CyberMax-tools/orbitwren-orbital-compute-tracker", "projects", split="train")
df = ds.to_pandas()
print(len(df), "rows")
print(df.head())

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