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Specifically, the limited dynamic range of visible light cameras leads to frequent overexposure or underexposure under extreme space lighting. Compounded by sparse textures and strong specular reflections, these factors significantly constrain reconstruction accuracy. While existing general-purpose feed-forward models such as MapAnything offer efficient inference, their geometric recovery capabilities degrade sharply when facing significant domain shifts. To address these issues, this paper proposes an enhanced 3D reconstruction framework tailored for the space environment named In-Orbit MapAnything. First, to mitigate data scarcity, we construct a high-quality space target dataset incorporating extreme illumination characteristics, which provides comprehensive auxiliary modalities including accurate camera poses and dense point clouds. Second, we propose the SatMap-Adapter module to mitigate feature degradation caused by severe specular reflections. This architecture employs a hierarchical cascade sampling strategy to align multi-level backbone features and utilizes a lightweight adaptive fusion module to dynamically integrate shallow photometric cues, intermediate structural information, and deep semantic features. Finally, we employ a weight-decomposed low-rank adaptation strategy to achieve parameter-efficient fine-tuning while strictly freezing the pre-trained backbone. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method decreases the absolute relative error and Chamfer distance by 15.23% and 20.02% respectively compared to the baseline MapAnything model, while maintaining a rapid inference speed. 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