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Built in Los Angeles by engineers from Amazon Leo, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Firefly Aerospace, and Millennium Space Systems.
Our first mission demonstrates AI inference compute in low Earth orbit. A high-performance GPU module aboard a hosted payload on a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch — validating radiative shielding and the thermal architecture of the nucleus of Orbital nodes.
Purpose-built satellite and compute payload with multiple GPU nodes, high-bandwidth ground links, and commercial inference availability. The first prototype node of the Orbital constellation.
Orbital is building the first commercial AI compute infrastructure in Low Earth Orbit — purpose-built for the energy and thermal constraints of space.
The opportunity is planetary-scale: terrestrial data center growth is constrained by power grid capacity. Space removes that constraint entirely.
We're backed by a16z speedrun and an incredible group of investors and operators who have built and scaled companies at the frontier of hardware, energy, and compute.
We're a small team building at planetary scale. If you want to be on the ground floor of a team that will make an impact on humanity — this is the place.
Based in Los Angeles. Engineering led. No BS — we just build and launch.