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OCT 6 1 ITEM

00:00 ET SpaceX Confirms Starmind Formation Flying With ~10-Sat Clusters At ~10 Tbps On October 6 SpaceX VP Michael Nicolls said Starmind needs clusters of about 10 satellites in tight formation with about 10 Tbps between them, toward up to 1 million sats. That ... X Orbital Data Centers SpaceX starmind

OCT 2 1 ITEM

00:00 ET Musk Says Each SpaceX Star Mind Spacecraft Will Have Over 250 kW Of Solar Elon Musk said on October 1 that each SpaceX Star Mind spacecraft will have over 250 kW of solar power. In a reply to a quote post, he added he is cautiously optimistic SpaceX's... X Orbital Data Centers SpaceX starmind

SEP 24 1 ITEM

20:00 ET Google Sets First Project Suncatcher TPU Test In Orbit Aboard SpaceX Transporter-18 Google announced on September 24 that Project Suncatcher's first orbital test, a prototype satellite built with Planet, will fly on SpaceX's Transporter-18 rideshare, reportedly... BLOG Google Orbital Data Centers Planet Labs

MAY 12 1 ITEM

00:00 ET Google in Talks With SpaceX to Launch Orbital Data Centers Media reported on May 12, 2026, that Google is in discussions with SpaceX and others to launch test hardware for orbital data centers under Google's Project Suncatcher, a resear... TECHCRUNCH Orbital Data Centers SpaceX Google

MAY 11 1 ITEM

00:00 ET Aetherflux Rebrands as Cowboy Space and Closes $275 Million Series B at $2 Billion Valuation On May 11, 2026, Aetherflux rebranded as Cowboy Space Corporation, announcing a $275 million Series B at a $2 billion valuation led by Index Ventures. The company is pivoting fr... PAYLOADSPACE Aetherflux Orbital Data Centers Cowboy Space

MAY 6 1 ITEM

00:00 ET Anthropic Eyes Multi-Gigawatt Orbital Compute in Landmark SpaceXAI Deal xAI signed a compute agreement with Anthropic for access to its Colossus 1 supercomputer in Memphis, which runs more than 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs across H100, H200, and GB200 deploy... X Orbital Data Centers SpaceX

MAY 2 1 ITEM

00:00 ET Starcloud Pursues $200M Round at $2.2B Valuation, Doubling Within a Month of Series A Starcloud is in talks to raise at least $200 million at a $2.2 billion post-money valuation, exactly double the $1.1 billion mark set by its Series A roughly one month earlier. ... SPACENEWS Orbital Data Centers SpaceX Starcloud

APR 28 1 ITEM

00:00 ET SpaceX Discloses Trillion-Dollar Musk Pay Plan Tied to Mars Colony and 100 Terawatt Orbital Compute SpaceX's confidential draft registration statement contains a performance-based compensation plan for Elon Musk, awarding up to 200 million super-voting Class B shares if the co... BNNBLOOMBERG IPO Orbital Data Centers SpaceX

APR 21 1 ITEM

00:00 ET China Backs Orbital Data Center Startup Orbital Chenguang with $8.4 Billion in Credit Lines Beijing-based Orbital Chenguang closed a Pre-A1 equity round from Haisong Capital, CITIC Construction Investment Capital, Cathay Capital, and others, alongside strategic credit ... SPACENEWS China Orbital Data Centers

MAR 30 1 ITEM

00:00 ET Starcloud Raises $170M Series A at $1.1B Valuation for Orbital Data Centers Starcloud closed a $170 million Series A led by Benchmark and EQT Ventures, hitting $1.1 billion and becoming the fastest YC graduate to reach unicorn status (17 months from dem... TECHCRUNCH Orbital Data Centers Starcloud