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 "name": "Starcloud-1",
 "group": "ran",
 "class": "language",
 "location": "Earth orbit",
 "operator": "Starcloud",
 "developer": "Starcloud",
 "host": "Starcloud-1",
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  "name": "STARCLOUD-1",
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  "decayed": null,
  "match": "by name, the reviewer's judgement"
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  "launched": "2025-11-02",
  "ran": "December 2025",
  "reported": "2025-12-10",
  "ended": null
 },
 "hardware": "NVIDIA H100",
 "software": "NanoGPT, trained in orbit; then a Google model, which sources name differently",
 "did": "Trained a small language model in orbit and ran a larger one.",
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   "stage": "L",
   "evidence": 3,
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  },
  {
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    "c2"
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   "text": "launched in November 2025 with the first Nvidia H100 GPU in space",
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   "relation": "operator",
   "source": "starcloud-1-page",
   "url": "https://www.starcloud.com/starcloud-1",
   "source_title": "Starcloud-1",
   "publisher": "Starcloud",
   "source_kind": "product-page",
   "published": "undated",
   "published_basis": "no date in the text; page metadata says 2025-12-10",
   "accessed": "2026-10-04",
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   "read": "in full as extracted: 990 characters of a much larger page, so parts drawn by script may be missing"
  },
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   "id": "c2",
   "kind": "quote",
   "text": "became the first satellite to run a version of Gemini in space and the first spacecraft to train an LLM",
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   "source_title": "Starcloud-1",
   "publisher": "Starcloud",
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   "published": "undated",
   "published_basis": "no date in the text; page metadata says 2025-12-10",
   "accessed": "2026-10-04",
   "copy_route": "direct",
   "read": "in full as extracted: 990 characters of a much larger page, so parts drawn by script may be missing"
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   "id": "c3",
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   "text": "running and querying responses from Gemma, an open large language model from Google",
   "speaker": "CNBC",
   "relation": "news",
   "source": "cnbc-starcloud",
   "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/10/nvidia-backed-starcloud-trains-first-ai-model-in-space-orbital-data-centers.html",
   "source_title": "'Greetings, earthlings': Nvidia-backed Starcloud trains first AI model in space as orbital data center race heats up",
   "publisher": "CNBC",
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   "published": "2025-12-10",
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   "accessed": "2026-10-04",
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   "kind": "quote",
   "text": "trains first AI model in space",
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   "source_title": "'Greetings, earthlings': Nvidia-backed Starcloud trains first AI model in space as orbital data center race heats up",
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   "source_kind": "news",
   "published": "2025-12-10",
   "published_basis": "page metadata",
   "accessed": "2026-10-04",
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   "id": "c5",
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   "text": "the first time in history that an LLM has been run on a high-powered Nvidia GPU in outer space",
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   "source_title": "'Greetings, earthlings': Nvidia-backed Starcloud trains first AI model in space as orbital data center race heats up",
   "publisher": "CNBC",
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   "accessed": "2026-10-04",
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    "LAUNCH_DATE": "2025-11-02"
   },
   "speaker": "CelesTrak satellite catalogue",
   "relation": "catalogue",
   "source": "celestrak-66303",
   "url": "https://celestrak.org/satcat/records.php?CATNR=66303&FORMAT=json",
   "source_title": "Satellite catalogue record 66303",
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 "conflicts": [
  {
   "summary": "Which Google model ran. Starcloud's own page says \"a version of Gemini\". CNBC's report says Gemma.",
   "status": "unresolved"
  }
 ],
 "notes": "The news report quotes Google DeepMind and NVIDIA in support. Both have a stake, as maker of the model and maker of the chip, so neither counts as confirmation. No logs, data or paper were found.",
 "changed": null,
 "headline": "L3 R1"
}