HPE Spaceborne Computer-4 Will Bring AI and HPC to the Moon on Astrolab Flip

HPE announced that its Spaceborne Computer-4, a compact fanless compute module with a low-power CPU and GPU and a Kioxia BG-series M.2 SSD, will run AI workloads including LLM retrieval-augmented generation, vision inference and LiDAR processing aboard Astrolab's FLIP rover, landing near the Moon's South Pole under NASA's CLPS initiative. The mission is intended to launch in late 2026 on Voyager Technologies' Griffin-1 lander, with NASA running its FLUID federated learning experiment and a tuned LLM test, and Deloitte providing its Silent Shield predictive cyber-analytics system. HPE will support Astrolab's mission control in Hawthorne, California, using HPE Private Cloud and HPE CloudOps Software.