{
 "id": "kepler-relay-tranche-1",
 "entry": 16,
 "name": "Kepler optical relay satellites, first tranche",
 "group": "launched",
 "class": "compute",
 "location": "Earth orbit",
 "operator": "Kepler Communications",
 "developer": "Kepler Communications",
 "host": "Ten relay satellites",
 "catalogue": null,
 "dates": {
  "launched": "2026-01-11",
  "ran": null,
  "reported": "2026-01-11",
  "ended": null
 },
 "hardware": "\"multi-GPU on-orbit compute modules\", not named",
 "software": "none reported",
 "did": "Launched with computing modules aboard and began commissioning. The release read reports no AI workload.",
 "marks": [
  {
   "stage": "L",
   "evidence": 1,
   "basis": [
    "c1",
    "c2"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "claims": [
  {
   "id": "c1",
   "kind": "quote",
   "text": "multi-GPU on-orbit compute modules",
   "speaker": "Kepler Communications",
   "relation": "operator",
   "source": "kepler-first-tranche",
   "url": "https://kepler.space/kepler-successfully-launches-first-tranche-of-optical-relay-satellites/",
   "source_title": "Kepler successfully launches first tranche of optical relay satellites",
   "publisher": "Kepler Communications",
   "source_kind": "press-release",
   "published": "2026-01-11",
   "published_basis": "page metadata",
   "accessed": "2026-10-04",
   "copy_route": "direct",
   "read": "in full"
  },
  {
   "id": "c2",
   "kind": "quote",
   "text": "will now begin commissioning",
   "speaker": "Kepler Communications",
   "relation": "operator",
   "source": "kepler-first-tranche",
   "url": "https://kepler.space/kepler-successfully-launches-first-tranche-of-optical-relay-satellites/",
   "source_title": "Kepler successfully launches first tranche of optical relay satellites",
   "publisher": "Kepler Communications",
   "source_kind": "press-release",
   "published": "2026-01-11",
   "published_basis": "page metadata",
   "accessed": "2026-10-04",
   "copy_route": "direct",
   "read": "in full"
  }
 ],
 "conflicts": [
  {
   "summary": "Another tracker lists this operator's compute cluster as commercially open since April 2026. Nothing later than the launch release was read here.",
   "status": "not checked"
  }
 ],
 "notes": "Only the launch-day release was read, so the silence recorded here may be this register's, not the operator's.",
 "changed": null,
 "headline": "L1"
}