Here’s one metric for tracking SpaceX’s IPO later this week: The company has changed the venture industry’s perspective on long-term, capital-intensive space so much that a talented founder with no ...

ANAHEIM, Calif. — It’s a lofty goal: Build the first “energy grid” in space to beam power to satellites, and even to future data centers in orbit, if companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX succeed in ...

The Space Data Network Backbone is envisioned to be a resilient and optically connected satellite constellation The program is designed to deliver secure, high-speed and high-bandwidth data links for ...

SpaceX has secured a $2.29 billion Space Force agreement to fast-track the SDN Backbone program The satellite network is designed to provide secure, high-speed military communications worldwide SpaceX ...

The Space Force has tapped SpaceX for its Space Data Network-Backbone program. Credit: SpaceX The U.S. Space Force has awarded SpaceX a new contract for the Space Data Network (SDN) Backbone program, ...

Cowboy Space is developing a vertically integrated orbital AI infrastructure platform combining rockets, solar power, and space-based data centers in an effort to bypass terrestrial power and grid ...

The twinkling stars in the night sky are not just beautiful to look at. Their flickering reveals something about the varying temperatures and densities in the layers of Earth's atmosphere, which ...

Space technology startup Cowboy Space Corp. today disclosed that it has raised $275 million in funding at a $2 billion valuation. Index Ventures led the Series B round. It was joined by NEA, IVP and ...

"Earth's energy grid can't run at the pace of AI. We can." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Cowboy Space Corp. has raised $275 ...

The apparently insatiable demand for AI compute has data center entrepreneurs looking to the stars. There’s a key problem: There aren’t enough rockets to put data centers in orbit around Earth, and ...

Data centres have become controversial on Earth. Technology firms want to put them in orbit, but there are challenges ahead. As the huge data centres powering the artificial-intelligence boom grow ...

Overview Energy plans to develop satellites collecting solar power in geosynchronous orbit and beaming it to Earth using near-infrared wide-beam lasers. Credit: Overview Energy WASHINGTON — Overview ...