Starcloud
Orbital data-center operator proposing gigawatt-scale on-orbit compute leveraging continuous solar power and radiative cooling to avoid terrestrial land, water, and permitting constraints. Founded by Philip Johnston (CEO), Ezra Feilden (CTO), and Adi Oltean (Chief Engineer).
FINANCIAL HEALTH
SECTOR POSITION
RECENT COVERAGE
| Date | Source | Headline |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 01, 2026 | Payload Space | Transporter-18 Tests the Building Blocks of Orbital Data Centers |
| Sep 28, 2026 | Payload Space | Star Catcher’s Orbital Power-Beaming Demo is Ready for Launch |
| Sep 25, 2026 | Payload Space | FUSE Grows Its Space Portfolio |
| Sep 10, 2026 | Payload Space | Orbital Partners with Reflex Aerospace on ODC Platform |
| Sep 04, 2026 | Ars Technica — Space | Trump White House just tossed a grenade into international space relations |
REGISTRY DATA
Source: space_company_registry.json · Operator homepage → · Corporate homepage (Redmond, WA HQ; active contact form; 2025 media coverage references including CNBC and NBC News) documents Starcloud's orbital data-center thesis and co-founder team, establishing
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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