Space data centers are being sold as a futuristic fix for AI’s exploding energy problem, but the engineering looks brutal.

SpaceX revealed its first generation of orbital data center satellite - dubbed AI1 - in a video posted to X late Monday. The reveal marks SpaceX's first step towards one of its biggest initiatives, ...

SpaceX has provided some details about its AI1 satellite, which it calls an orbital data center. The company provided updates about the size and power capacity of the system, ahead of a ...

The ARAQYS-D3 mission by Dcubed will demonstrate the ability to manufacture a solar array 15 meters long in orbit. Credit: Dcubed BREMEN, Germany — German satellite component company Dcubed is moving ...

Orbital, a Los Angeles startup, has closed a pre-seed round of $5 million led by a16z’s startup accelerator program Speedrun.

As surging AI and compute demand pushes terrestrial data centers to their limit, space-based data centers can harness infinitely abundant solar energy in orbit thanks to Rocket Lab’s rapidly scalable ...

WASHINGTON — Axiom Space has awarded a contract to Redwire to provide solar arrays for the first module of Axiom’s planned commercial space station. The companies announced Sept. 25 that Redwire will ...

The U.S.-based manufacturer of silicon solar PV technologies for space announced a project that requires it to manufacture, assemble and integrate 1 kW of solar cells and modules into a novel solar ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has developed technology to stiffen deployable structures on spacecraft, enabling autonomous spacecraft docking operations. SwRI is currently integrating the ...

The strongest moment comes when the video stops talking about fleets and starts talking about what actually keeps a space ...

Following the closure of its €5.4 million ($6.23 million) pre-seed funding round, Luxembourg’s TerraSpark aims to carry out its first space-to-earth power transmission in 2028 using radio ...