
Kelly Litzner
Director of Commercial Programs at The Aerospace Corporation, expert in orbital data centers and commercial space technology.
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Jun 11, 2026
Understanding what’s next for orbital data centers
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Paul TillmanGUEST
How quickly can you synthesize imagery from multiple space vehicles, create an operating picture, and make some decisions about what you're seeing happen on Earth?

Kelly LitznerGUEST
Yeah, and if I could just jump in on that, great points both, but I'll flip the economic question to one of value.

Kelly LitznerGUEST
If you broaden your aperture and you don't think power, when you're on Earth and there's a data center a mile away like there is here, it's not going to be faster to send it to space.

Kelly LitznerGUEST
But when you're going space to space or space to deeper space or deep space back, that's really important.

Kelly LitznerGUEST
When you start getting into military applications and you talk about the famous OODA loop and making those decisions, you get to speed and processing power.

Kelly LitznerGUEST
And the more you can process in space and the less you have to send down to the Earth and the faster you can send it directly when you're halfway around the world versus processing back in Virginia and then going back up to space and back down, all those things add value to something that... may not be economically feasible when you're just talking about a commercial use case.

Kelly LitznerGUEST
Having said that, you run into a chicken and the egg problem because the government is very much commercial forward right now and the government economically would like to buy this as a service.
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Mike GrussHOST
And I think there are questions about whether or not data centers will be able to provide the resilience in numbers, but will they provide the data security and resilience that's necessary there? So I wanted to hear a little bit more about how you and your team are thinking about national security applications here and what and how they could be useful and kind of what what you still need to see for it's going to be sold on that