ORBITAL DATA CENTERS · OPERATOR PROFILE · DATA AS OF 2026-06-10

Sophia Space

Active Orbital Data Centers Private HQ: Pasadena, California Founded 2023

Pasadena, CA startup founded by ex-JPL Fellow Leon Alkalai building TILE, a modular flat-form compute platform - solar array on one face, radiator on the other - aimed at orbital data centers, commercial stations, and defense. Flight test planned late 2027; the modular design sidesteps the large-radiator integration problem.

35.9

ARI Composite

Very High Risk

#27 of 28

Peer Rank

Eo Data cohort

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Total Launches

No flights tracked

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Estimated valuation

Not disclosed

FINANCIAL HEALTH

35.9

ARI composite · Very High Risk

Peer rank#27 of 28

Peer groupEo Data

Data coverage72%

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SECTOR POSITION

Primary sectorOrbital Data Centers

Rank within sector#27 of 28

Tracked peers28

REGISTRY DATA

Legal nameSophia Space, Inc.

OwnershipPrivate

HeadquartersPasadena, California

CountryUS

Founded2023

FounderLeon Alkalai

AliasesSophia Space

Key programsTILE modular orbital compute platform, Flight test (late 2027)

Last fundingSeed, $10M (2026); $13.5M total

IPO statusPrivate

Source: space_company_registry.json · Operator homepage → · SpaceNews documents the $10M seed (2026, Alpha Funds/KDDI/Unlock); $3.5M pre-seed per Data Center Dynamics.

METHODOLOGY

Launch history and subsystem outcomes aggregate from AstraVeris's launch_events table with Wilson 95% lower bounds on success rates. ARI scores come from the 11-factor composite (/finance/methodology/). Constellation counts derive from the live CelesTrak/GCAT object catalog. Gov contracts from USAspending.gov awards; private deals from deduplicated pipeline deal extraction. Absence of a row means "not tracked" — we never fabricate. See /methodology/ for the full data model and /data-licensing/ for licensing terms.

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