BlackSky Revenue
BlackSky generated $21M of revenue in Q1, a 29% YoY decline.
BlackSky generated $21M of revenue in Q1, a 29% YoY decline.
For many satellite applications, optical links are not worth their cost (often hundreds of thousands of dollars).
Signal intelligence business HawkEye 360 IPO’d last week, raising $416M at a $2.4B valuation.
We cover terrestrial bottlenecks, cost analysis, the competitive landscape, and technical challenges.
The technical challenges to orbital data centers are well understood, and boil down to the following:
Orbital data center competition includes big players like SpaceX, Blue Origin, Sophia Space, Starcloud, Aetherflux, and Axiom. Plus, satellite manufacturing suppliers such as Apex and K2 Space.
In this piece, we open our models to compare the build costs of an orbital data center and a terrestrial data center (inclusive of the delay-driven terrestrial opportunity cost).
Today, we’re kicking off the first analysis article in a four-part report unpacking the economics of orbital data centers.