Planet’s Revenue Growth
Planet Labs reported strong 42% YoY Q1 revenue growth last week.
Planet Labs reported strong 42% YoY Q1 revenue growth last week.
Eighteen months ago, something strange happened in the space industry: everywhere you looked, satellite bus manufacturers (new, old, pivoted, or expanded into) started raising capital at astronomical levels and valuations.
SpaceX’s IPO prospectus is here.
BlackSky generated $21M of revenue in Q1, a 29% YoY decline.
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.
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).