Space

700 satellites cost less than 1 typical NASA satellite, Planet Labs CEO finds

10 numbers: a Dove built in about 8 hours against 8 years at NASA, 100M pieces of space debris, and why a 100% satellite success rate worries Planet's…

Nov 10 • Scuttlebutt

Orbiting data centers can match Texas prices, says Robinhood co-founder

7 takeaways: how a rocket's upper stage becomes an orbital data center, why Baiju calls SpaceX "the Empire," and how many homes one satellite could…

Nov 7 • Scuttlebutt

Blue Origin CEO on its capital raise: "Our target was to raise $10 billion"

6 numbers: a return to flight within weeks, a third stage adding 20 metric tons to lunar missions, an engine built in under a day, and 150 rockets a…

Nov 7 • Scuttlebutt

Planet Labs CEO on space data centers: "Five times more power straight to the chips"

7 insights: why defense drove 58% growth, how Sweden got its first satellite 4 months after signing, and why hyperscalers buy imagery to watch rivals…

Nov 6 • Scuttlebutt

AI agents convert 2x better on its catalog than scraped search, says Shopify's president

10 takeaways: Northwood Space's $375M round and a plant built for hundreds of antennas, and SemiAnalysis on why the first $1T of AI revenue will be…

Nov 4 • Scuttlebutt

Humanity's future in space turns on its first birth or first combat death — Voyager CEO

11 takeaways: Why SpaceX's capital efficiency split the space industry, why orbital data centers are a real business, and why the moon is no backup plan…

Nov 4 • Scuttlebutt

$500/kg is the launch cost where orbital data centers beat Earth's, Starcloud CEO finds

9 takeaways: A satellite built for $2.5M against a $75M-$100M quote, why chip failures worry Starcloud more than cooling, an 88,000-satellite plan, and…

Nov 1 • Scuttlebutt

SpaceX becomes the first $10T company, then a $100T one, says XPRIZE founder

5 predictions: why he backs a SpaceX-Tesla merger, 100% odds of $1T in revenue by 2029, Starlink traffic up 100x, and the political risk he does see

Oct 22 • Scuttlebutt

Sundar Pichai: a 2027 compute request today is "incredibly difficult"

6 insights: why Gemini 4 Argon used 25 trillion tokens in its first 3 days, why Google's cloud is subsidizing AI research, and what comes before quantum

Oct 21 • Scuttlebutt

Bharti Enterprises chairman on the Starlink queue: "I applied five years back"

8 takeaways: India's foreign minister on why the US is a partner but not an ally, Switzerland's 15% tariff deal, Brent at $106 and Goldman's 42 Indian…

Oct 15 • Scuttlebutt

First test of beaming power from orbit to Earth is weeks away, says Cowboy Space CEO

4 takeaways: how lasers carry power from orbit to the ground, why the rocket becomes the satellite, and why old chips keep working in space

Oct 11 • Scuttlebutt

BlackRock PM on space: Starship could cut launch costs to "about $200" a kilogram

10 insights: Why he expects AI data centers to move into orbit next decade, SpaceX's Q4 2027 target for the first test, a Space Force budget he says…

Sep 26 • Scuttlebutt

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