{"city":"Redmond","name":"Starcloud","slug":"starcloud","facts":[{"date":"2028-01-01","type":"deployment","value":"Three-ton, 200 kW-class spacecraft; Falcon 9 for smaller payloads pending Starship readiness","source":"SpaceNews"},{"date":"2026-11-01","type":"product_launch","value":"Starcloud-1 launched in November","source":"SpaceNews"},{"date":"2026-11-01","type":"deployment","value":"Starcloud-1 flew to orbit aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 Bandwagon-4","source":"Payload"},{"date":"2026-09-06","type":"setback","value":"Withdrew from the upcoming European Space Summit","source":"theaiinsider.tech — 2026-09-06"},{"date":"2026-09-01","type":"partnership","value":"Fermi Explorer nonprofit mission to send a spacecraft toward Alpha Centauri","source":"TechCrunch"},{"date":"2026-08-26","type":"deployment","value":"Two Starcloud-2 satellites scheduled for rideshare launches in 2027","source":"The AI Insider"}],"peers":[],"stage":null,"state":"Washington","aliases":[],"country":"United States","domains":[{"why":"Starcloud operates GPU computing in orbit, including NVIDIA H100s, and plans to sell orbital cloud-computing services to cloud providers and government customers.","list":null,"rank":null,"tier":"member","layer":null,"total":73,"domain":"AI Core","scores":{"leverage":4,"position":7,"progress":10,"firepower":6,"commercial":4,"deployment":8,"production":9,"technology":8},"edition":null,"segment":null},{"why":"Starcloud develops and operates orbital data centers that host GPUs and provide cloud, edge-compute, and AI workloads in space. Its planned constellation is explicitly designed as in-space computing infrastructure.","list":"Space 100","rank":62,"tier":"member","layer":"Infrastructure","total":71,"domain":"Space","scores":{"leverage":6,"position":6,"progress":10,"firepower":8,"commercial":4,"deployment":9,"production":2,"technology":8},"edition":"November 2026","segment":"In-space compute & data"}],"founded":null,"signals":[{"date":"2026-10-26","header":"Dunamu & Partners made a strategic investment in Starcloud’s $250 million funding round.","outlet":"ZDNet Korea"},{"date":"2026-10-01","header":"Starcloud signed a commercial payload agreement to demonstrate AI computing in lunar orbit.","outlet":"Interesting Engineering"},{"date":"2026-09-06","header":"SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke Space, and Starcloud withdrew from the upcoming European Space Summit.","outlet":"The AI Insider"},{"date":"2026-09-02","header":"PSI developed a perihelion-pump trajectory for StarCloud’s interstellar mission.","outlet":"Peter H. Diamandis"},{"date":"2026-09-02","header":"PSI used tens of billions of tokens to search for StarCloud’s interstellar trajectory.","outlet":"Peter H. Diamandis"},{"date":"2026-09-02","header":"StarCloud spent six months searching for a viable solar-electric trajectory to Alpha Centauri.","outlet":"Peter H. Diamandis"}],"website":"https://starcloud.com","category":"Space · Infrastructure","categories":[{"name":"Neoclouds & GPU clouds","domain":"AI Core","parent":"AI Infra · Compute demand & operators"},{"name":"In-space compute & data","domain":"Space","parent":"Space · Infrastructure"}],"last_round":null,"updated_at":"2026-10-27T10:00:53.799+00:00","facts_total":76,"positioning":"Starcloud is a US orbital-compute company (ex-Lumen Orbit, 15 staff) that became the fastest unicorn in Y Combinator history (a $1.1B valuation in March 2026), whose Starcloud-1 (launched November 2025) carried the first NVIDIA H100 GPU in space and trained the first LLM in space (December 2025). Starcloud-2 (October 2026) carries multiple H100s, and it filed with the FCC in February 2026 for an 88,000-satellite compute constellation, making it the flag-carrier of the orbital-compute theme. It is pre-revenue, and a recorded skeptic point is Varda's estimate that orbital compute costs ~3x per watt versus terrestrial.","sub_category":"In-space compute & data","signals_total":70,"url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/starcloud","title":"Starcloud · ai core, Redmond, Washington, United States · scores, facts and signals · Frontier Tech Intelligence","description":"Starcloud operates GPU computing in orbit, including NVIDIA H100s, and plans to sell orbital cloud-computing services to cloud providers and government customers. AI Core member (score 73) 70 signals and 76 facts with sources.","publisher":"Frontier Tech Intelligence (Future Frontiers, a trade name of Essential Cognition Inc.)","note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}