SpaceX-Nvidia Starmind Deal Lifts Stocks Ahead of $7.8B Earnings Report

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has selected Nvidia to build the compute payload for its new Starmind AI1 satellite network, a move that pushed both companies’ shares higher on Tuesday. The tie-up landed just hours before SpaceX reported its first quarterly results as a public company, a filing that investors are also watching for updates on the firm’s roughly 18,712 BTC treasury.

Starmind is SpaceX’s plan to put data centers directly into orbit, shifting AI compute off the ground and into space where satellites can draw on continuous solar power and radiate heat more efficiently. According to the reports, each Starmind satellite will carry Nvidia’s next-generation Rubin GPUs paired with Vera CPUs, the chipmaker’s newest architecture built for large-scale AI workloads.

Why the timing matters

The Nvidia agreement was disclosed on the same day SpaceX was due to publish its first quarterly figures since becoming a public company, a report that will also reveal how its balance sheet has moved since the last update. Cryptaur previously reported that SpaceX’s Bitcoin holdings shed roughly $540M in value even as the company posted $7.8B in Q2 revenue, underscoring how closely the firm’s crypto exposure is tracked alongside its core rocket and satellite business.

For a company that already sits on one of the larger corporate Bitcoin stacks outside dedicated treasury firms, an expanding AI infrastructure bet adds another variable for investors trying to model SpaceX’s overall balance sheet. A capital-intensive push into orbital data centers could compete for spending priority with any future BTC accumulation, or simply run in parallel if cash flow from Starlink and launch contracts keeps growing.

What moved on the news

Both Nvidia and SpaceX-linked equities gained on Tuesday following the announcement, according to the reports, though neither outlet disclosed a specific percentage move for either stock. The deal effectively brings SpaceX into a group of major tech and infrastructure players already tied to Nvidia’s AI chip roadmap, reinforcing Nvidia’s position as the default supplier for compute-heavy projects whether they sit in terrestrial data centers or, increasingly, in orbit.

Details on deployment timelines, satellite counts, or contract value for the Starmind partnership were not disclosed in the available reporting. Investors will likely look to SpaceX’s quarterly disclosure for any further clarity on how much capital is earmarked for the orbital AI buildout relative to the company’s existing Bitcoin position and its core launch and satellite internet businesses.

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Sources

• coingape.com
• beincrypto.com