Technical Challenges in Scaling Orbital Data Centers
The technical challenges to orbital data centers are well understood, and boil down to the following:
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Orbital Data Center Competitive Landscape
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.
Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Center Cost Analysis
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).
The Terrestrial Bottlenecks Pushing Compute to Space
Today, we’re kicking off the first analysis article in a four-part report unpacking the economics of orbital data centers.
Inside Starcloud and SpaceX’s Orbital Data Centers FCC Filings
After only a two months of 2026, this year is already shaping up to be the year of space data centers. In January, SpaceX filed with the FCC for up to 1M satellites (wild). A few days later, Starcloud followed with plans for 88,000 satellites of its own.
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