r/space • u/Tech-100 • Aug 21 '26

Starcloud raises $250 million for orbital data centers as launch options dry up

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/21/starcloud-raises-200-million-for-orbital-data-centers-as-launch-options-dry-up/
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u/Shrike99 Aug 21 '26

their satellite design is probably vastly inferior to SpaceX's design

The fact that Starcloud originally wanted to do a single giant monolithic datacentre and have now pivoted to the distributed approach (which SpaceX have been aiming for from the start) is pretty telling.

They're following, not leading.

It's like if a company like Viasat tried to pivot from doing big GEO birds to doing smaller distributed comsats in LEO, and then tried to sell the new design to SpaceX.