Starcloud

CEO

Philip Johnston, CEO

Founded by

Philip Johnston

People

Ezra, CTO

Built

data centers in space

Starcloud-1

Launched

Starcloud-1

Capabilities

Second satellite planned to have optical terminals for continuous high-bandwidth, low-latency connectivity.

Builds orbital data centers, initially to provide GPU compute to other satellites and later to compete with terrestrial data centers on energy cost.

Integrates with

Nvidia, working together on a chip designed for the space environment

Amazon, launching AWS Outposts hardware

Starlink laser terminal, terminal planned for next 20 satellites

• filed for a constellation of 88,000 spacecraft 18:50The Case For Data Centers In Space
• first contact about 12 hours after launch 7:49The Case For Data Centers In Space
• raised $170 million in a round led by Benchmark 0:39The Case For Data Centers In Space
• Second satellite planned to be at least 10 times more powerful than the first and to fly NVIDIA Blackwell architecture. 11:41Inside The Startup Launching AI Data Centers Into Space
• Designed, built, ready, and tested its first satellite in 15 months. 9:30Inside The Startup Launching AI Data Centers Into Space

Tech stack 7

Gemini1 srcNvidia1 srcH1001 srcArm1 srcADAstro Digital1 srcBlackwell architecture1 srcXX1 src

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