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The latest Space Tech news and analysis from Tech Arcade.
Google flew four Trillium TPUs into orbit on October 1 for Project Suncatcher. The chips survived radiation, but the real wall is an 18x launch-cost gap and 15-minute compute bursts.
Hubble Network raised $200M at a $1.6B valuation to connect standard, sub-50-cent Bluetooth chips directly to satellites — no SIM, no tower, no new radio.
Stoke Space raised a $1 billion Series E, pushing its total to $2.3 billion, for a fully reusable Nova rocket that hasn't flown yet — first launch is targeted for early 2027.
Pixxel just raised a $100M Series C — India's largest space-tech round ever — to scale six hyperspectral satellites reading the planet's chemistry from orbit.
Starcloud closed a $250M Series A extension at a $2.3B valuation to run Nvidia GPUs in orbit. One H100 is already up there; the FCC filing asks for 88,000 satellites.
Starcloud raised $250M at a $2.3B valuation — with Nvidia joining — to run AI data centers in orbit. Free sunlight, vacuum cooling, and an 88,000-satellite dream.
