Claim · 2024-06-27 · announcement · Stated in source · Supported

Thales Alenia Space stated that ASCEND aims to deploy one gigawatt before 2050.

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What it connects

Thales Alenia Space → announced plan → ASCEND: deploy one gigawatt of space data centres before 2050

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Claim and evidence

Thales Alenia Spaceannounced plan ↓ASCEND: deploy one gigawatt of space data centres before 2050

Machine-checked, not reviewed by an editorStated in sourceSupported

Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source; Context: primary · 1 source

Date: 2024-06-27 · announcement
Figure measures: not stated by the source
Stated dates (targets and terms, not events): target operation: 2050
Quantity: exact · 1 GW (as worded: 'one gigawatt')

Scope and limitsAn aim stated in a study-results release; the study itself was funded by the European Commission under Horizon Europe, but no deployment programme, deployment funding or launch is stated. The release says the partners intend to pursue the feasibility study.

The evidence 03

primary sourceSupports the claim

Thales Alenia Space reveals results of ASCEND feasibility study on space data centers

Thales Alenia Space · 2024-06-27

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Source excerpt

“ASCEND aims to deploy one gigawatt before 2050”

Location in source paragraph beginning “The ASCEND project could contribute to Europe’s digital sovereignty”

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-30

Source details and check notes

Authors: Thales Alenia Space
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 0f7cd327680b3e61754037f19421d3940edb0c41c780b0494e7a8aca98bb54b0). Press release as served on 2026-10-28; dateline Cannes, June 27, 2024. The ASCEND study report itself was not retrieved. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 0f7cd327680b3e61754037f19421d3940edb0c41c780b0494e7a8aca98bb54b0, the same bytes). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-28
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Thales Alenia Space, “Thales Alenia Space reveals results of ASCEND feasibility study on space data centers”, 2024-06-27.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The quotation (8 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval whose SHA-256 equals the pack’s. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review.

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Thales Alenia Space reveals results of ASCEND feasibility study on space data centers

Thales Alenia Space · 2024-06-27

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Source excerpt

“funded by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe program”

Location in source paragraph 1

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-30

Source details and check notes

Authors: Thales Alenia Space
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 0f7cd327680b3e61754037f19421d3940edb0c41c780b0494e7a8aca98bb54b0). Press release as served on 2026-10-28; dateline Cannes, June 27, 2024. The ASCEND study report itself was not retrieved. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 0f7cd327680b3e61754037f19421d3940edb0c41c780b0494e7a8aca98bb54b0, the same bytes). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-28
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Thales Alenia Space, “Thales Alenia Space reveals results of ASCEND feasibility study on space data centers”, 2024-06-27.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The quotation (10 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval whose SHA-256 equals the pack’s. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review.

primary sourceContext only

Thales Alenia Space reveals results of ASCEND feasibility study on space data centers

Thales Alenia Space · 2024-06-27

Cite the original source

Cite the original document, not Selekoa. Check these details against it.

Source excerpt

“now intend to pursue the ASCEND feasibility study”

Location in source paragraph beginning “Thales Alenia Space and its partners now intend”

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-30

Source details and check notes

Authors: Thales Alenia Space
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 0f7cd327680b3e61754037f19421d3940edb0c41c780b0494e7a8aca98bb54b0). Press release as served on 2026-10-28; dateline Cannes, June 27, 2024. The ASCEND study report itself was not retrieved. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 0f7cd327680b3e61754037f19421d3940edb0c41c780b0494e7a8aca98bb54b0, the same bytes). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-28
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Thales Alenia Space, “Thales Alenia Space reveals results of ASCEND feasibility study on space data centers”, 2024-06-27.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The quotation (8 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval whose SHA-256 equals the pack’s. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review.

Status and meaning

Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor. An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.

Relation. A party announced a plan, programme or intention, dated by the announcement. A plan is not an action, a contract or spending.

Date. Date of the announcement, as the source gives it.

Record ID cpo-orb-ascend-1gw-aim