Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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In the last week SpaceX has acquired XAI and presumably related to that they submitted plans to the FCC exploring the construction of a compute cluster in Earth orbit with one million spacecraft.

So, I try to use Universe Sandbox to visualize this.... and it's not easy.
For technical reasons this is a limited version visualizing the kind of orbits we expect, but you can play with it yourself if you own Universe Sandbox
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