Orbital

We’ve partnered with @orca_aerospace to make Orbital’s constellation self-operating.

Orca’s onboard software flies every satellite, starting with our first launch together in 2028. Each one plans its own maneuvers, handles its own faults, and calls a human only when it needs one. Orbital’s satellites are AI data centers in orbit. Orca’s software flies them.

Together, we’re designing a fleet that can scale to 1,000 satellites without the control room scaling with it, at an estimated 10x lower cost to operate each one.

We’ve partnered with @reflexaerospace to develop Orbital-1 for AI compute in space.

Reflex leads the satellite platform design. Orbital is developing the compute payload.

Together, we’re engineering the spacecraft behind data centers in space.

Orbital in Newcomer: turning solar energy into computing capacity in space.
#newcomer #orbital

Why is Orbital really an energy company?

Newcomer’s October 28 report includes Orbital. Euwyn explains why the energy question comes first when we talk about data centers in space.
#space #newcomer #orbital

Space is cold, so why is cooling GPUs hard?

There’s no air to carry the heat away. A typical approach is to move heat to radiators, then leave as infrared radiation.

One of the challenges we’re working to solve at Orbital as we grow.
#cooling #spacetech #orbit