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StarCloud is building data centers in space to leverage space-based energy resources.
StarCloud was the first to train a machine learning model in space, specifically Andrej Karpathy's nanoGPT.
StarCloud was the first to run a version of the Gemini model in space.
A square meter of a solar panel in space produces eight times the energy of a square meter of a solar panel on Earth.
SpaceX's Starship vehicle is designed to achieve launch costs of approximately $10 to $20 per kilogram.
StarCloud has filed with the FCC for a constellation of 88,000 satellites.
StarCloud's planned 88,000-satellite constellation will provide approximately 20 gigawatts of new compute capacity.
The planned 88,000-satellite constellation from StarCloud represents an estimated $100 billion in capital expenditure.
StarCloud is collaborating with NVIDIA on a new chip, the "space Ruben one," designed to operate at higher temperatures to reduce radiator mass.
The StarCloud 1 satellite was equipped with five NVIDIA GPUs, including an NVIDIA H100 chip.
StarCloud was the first to perform high-powered inference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data in space.
Each satellite in StarCloud's planned 88,000-satellite constellation will have a power capacity of approximately 200 kilowatts.