{
 "id": "axiom-odc-nodes",
 "entry": 17,
 "name": "Axiom's two free-flying orbital data centre nodes",
 "group": "held-back",
 "class": "compute",
 "location": "Earth orbit",
 "operator": "Axiom Space",
 "developer": "Axiom Space",
 "host": "Kepler Communications relay satellites",
 "catalogue": null,
 "dates": {
  "launched": null,
  "ran": null,
  "reported": "2025-04-07",
  "ended": null
 },
 "hardware": "not stated",
 "software": "none reported",
 "did": "Announced for launch. No source read says the nodes are in orbit.",
 "marks": [
  {
   "stage": "A",
   "evidence": 1,
   "basis": [
    "c1"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "claims": [
  {
   "id": "c1",
   "kind": "quote",
   "text": "announced today the upcoming launch of its first two Orbital Data Center (ODC) nodes to low-Earth orbit (LEO), by the end of this year",
   "speaker": "Axiom Space",
   "relation": "operator",
   "source": "axiom-odc-nodes-announce",
   "url": "https://www.axiomspace.com/release/axiom-space-to-launch-orbital-data-center-nodes-to-support-national-security-commercial-international-customers",
   "source_title": "Axiom Space to Launch Orbital Data Center Nodes to Support National Security, Commercial, International Customers",
   "publisher": "Axiom Space",
   "source_kind": "press-release",
   "published": "2025-04-07",
   "published_basis": "dateline of the release",
   "accessed": "2026-10-04",
   "copy_route": "direct",
   "read": "in part: about five excerpts of 6,700 characters"
  }
 ],
 "conflicts": [
  {
   "summary": "A search-engine snippet of Axiom's product page says the nodes launched on 11 January 2026, and three trackers say the same. The text of that page as fetched holds no such sentence.",
   "status": "not supported by anything read"
  }
 ],
 "notes": "Held back: on what was read this is an announcement, and announcements are not listed in this version.",
 "changed": "Held back. In the first table it was listed as launched, on a snippet and on other trackers.",
 "headline": "A1"
}