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May 11, 2026
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 from a pure space-base...
May 12, 2026
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 research effort to network...
May 06, 2026
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 deployments and adds over ...
May 02, 2026
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. The Information brok...
Apr 28, 2026
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 company reaches a $7.5...
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Aaron and Vlad walk through our new 80-page Orbital Data Center report and lay out the thesis: terrestrial power constraints push compute off-planet, and orbital costs cross terrestrial costs between 2029 and 2032. We cover the triangular bottleneck (compute, solar, thermal), a useful-life correction we disclosed live, and what the timing means for the SpaceX IPO growth multiple. We also flag two news items: the New Glenn mishap and grounding, and today's FCC vote on EPFD.
The full Orbital Data Center Report is the convergence of all Mach33 diligence on orbital data centers; the complete narrative for the value of ODCs. This analysis is the synthesis: terrestrial hits a grid wall, orbital crosses the cost curve as SpaceX's stack matures, and four investor gates collapse to only one operator.
Terrestrial VS Orbital Cost ($/GW) Crossover
Apr 21, 2026
Beijing-based Orbital Chenguang closed a Pre-A1 equity round from Haisong Capital, CITIC Construction Investment Capital, Cathay Capital, and others, alongside strategic credit lines totaling 57.7 ...
This is a bottom-up revenue model for orbital compute infrastructure, calibrated against CoreWeave's published contract economics. Two independent approaches converge on a revenue range of $10.7 billion to $16.0 billion per gigawatt of input power per year. The lower bound captures the advantage of higher Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE). The upper bound prices in custom inference silicon performance of operations per delivered watt. Silicon efficiency is the dominant variable, producing a $14.5 billion/GW swing across its feasible range. Revenue per GW is location-independent; orbital deployment wins on the cost side, where Wright's Law learning curves compress launch and subsystem costs with each replacement cycle while revenue holds.
Mar 27, 2026
Space solar startup Aetherflux, founded by Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt, is in talks to raise $250 to $350 million in a Series B led by Index Ventures at a $2 billion valuation, per The Wall St...
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