# Jensen Huang

Type: Person

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## Timeline

- **2026-11**: Starcloud-1 Launch — Scheduled deployment of the first satellite featuring the integrated Vera Rubin AI module.
- **2026-07-04**: NVIDIA posts Space-1 architect job — NVIDIA advertises a System Software Principal Architect – Orbital Data Center role, with a base salary up to $431,250, to develop software for Space-1 and future platforms.
- **2026-05**: WSJ reports Google-SpaceX talks — The Wall Street Journal reports that Google is in discussions with SpaceX for a rocket-launch deal to deploy orbital data centers in space.
- **2026-03**: Vera Rubin Announcement — Jensen Huang unveils the Vera Rubin Space One module at Nvidia's annual developers conference.
- **2026-03**: Space-1 unveiled at NVIDIA GTC — NVIDIA introduces Space-1, its first orbital data center module, a Vera Rubin–class compute platform designed for low-Earth orbit AI inference.
- **2025**: Initial Space Test — Starcloud successfully launches and operates a standard Nvidia GPU in orbit.

## Recent coverage (2 stories)

### Nvidia to Pay Up to $431K for Space-Based AI Data Center Architect
2026-07-05 00:49:32 · Sentiment: Positive · Impact: 7/10 · Sources: 2

Nvidia is actively expanding its Space-1 project, hiring a software architect with a top salary of $431,250 to build AI infrastructure in low-Earth orbit, joining SpaceX and Google in the race to commercialize space-based data centers.
Full story: https://getspacebrief.com/story/nvidia-space-1-orbital-data-center-job

### Nvidia Unveils Vera Rubin Space One to Power Orbital AI Data Centers
2026-03-17 03:05:14 · Sentiment: Positive · Impact: 8/10 · Sources: 2

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has announced the Vera Rubin Space One, a specialized AI module designed to serve as the foundational architecture for orbiting data centers. In partnership with startup Starcloud, the initiative aims to deploy 100 times more computing power than current space-based operations to support real-time sensing and large language models in orbit.
Full story: https://getspacebrief.com/story/nvidia-vera-rubin-space-one-orbital-ai

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