Philip Johnston

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Y Combinator Startup Podcast · Building the First Data Centers in Space · 5 Aug 2026 podcast

They're about a gigawatt is the largest.

Yeah, it's very dependent on the launch cost.

And so, you know, the estimates for Starship, if you believe Elon, it'll be end of this year.

But let's say it could be end of next year, early 2028 for Starship deploying, you know, ramping up the launch cadence.

They're actually phasing out Falcon 9.

So they're going to be moving over commercial customers to Starship.

There's also a whole bunch of other launch vehicles coming in line.

Stokes Base has the Nova rocket.

Rocket Lab has Neutron.

Blue Origin has New Glenn.

So end of 2028, I'd say, is when we're starting to ramp up for the terrestrial business, competing with terrestrial data centers.

So your customers are actually anyone who wants compute.

And then initially... Initially, it's government and military.

But then as Starship ramps up.

So for the next two, three years, we've just won four contracts with various DOW and government entities.

Is that right?

Yeah, exactly.

So right now, many satellites are very constrained with the amount of data they can downlink.

And so using optical terminals, we'll have three optical terminals on our second satellite.

They can ship enormous amounts of raw satellite imagery and SAR data, synthetic aperture radar data, to us.

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