Institutional dossier
The documented history of Starcloud (formerly Lumen Orbit): chronology, people, research, capital and compute, and governance. Every statement opens its source and its limits.
Records dated 2024-09 to 2026-10-28 · 0 undated
5 claims · 5 sources · 5 not editorially accepted. The counts describe this selection. They do not measure completeness or independent confirmation.
Scope, evidence and limits
Description: A company in Redmond, Washington, developing orbital data centres; its later white paper states that Lumen Orbit was renamed Starcloud in 2025.
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Chronology
Records about the institution itself and documented changes to its frameworks, by year. Expand a year to read the claims. People’s other institutional records and related documents have their own sections. Where a date gives only the year or month, the order within it is unknown.
2024Record year · 1 claims
- Lumen Orbit (now Starcloud) published the white paper "Why we should train AI in space", whose version 1.01 is dated September 2024.Starcloud → published → Lumen Orbit white paper (2024)Inspect claim & evidence ↗
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Qualification and date notes
The date is the one the document prints. The earliest copy located is an Internet Archive capture of 24 December 2024, which the cross-family check found byte-identical to the copy retrieved in 2026 and which prints the same month; a capture does not establish when v1.01 was first posted. A later v1.03 carries the same month and adds the 2025 renaming.
Month printed on the v1.01 cover; no day given.
2025Record year · 2 claims
- According to NVIDIA's blog of 15 October 2025, Starcloud plans to build a 5-gigawatt orbital data centre with solar and cooling panels about 4 kilometres in width and length.Starcloud → announced plan → 5-gigawatt orbital data centre with solar and cooling panels about 4 km by 4 km Inspect claim & evidence ↗
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exact 5 GW (as worded: '5-gigawatt orbital data center')
Qualification and date notes
A plan relayed by NVIDIA, an investor-programme partner (NVIDIA Inception); no date, site or funding for the 5 GW system is stated. Nothing is built.
Date of the NVIDIA post relaying the plan; the white paper of September 2024 already describes a 5 GW design.
- Starcloud states that Starcloud-1 launched in November 2025 carrying an NVIDIA H100 GPU.Starcloud → stated the launch of → Starcloud-1Inspect claim & evidence ↗
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Qualification and date notes
Operator statement only. The page gives no launch date, vehicle or orbit; the "first" wording on the page is Starcloud's and is not adopted.
Month as Starcloud states it on an undated page read on 2026-10-28; no day or vehicle is given there. Dated by the statement of the launch.
2026Record year · 2 claims
- Starcloud applied to the FCC for authority to deploy and operate up to 88,000 satellites as a distributed data centre in space; the FCC lists the application (SAT-LOA-20260202-00073) as filed on 4 February 2026 and accepted for filing in Report No. SAT-01982 of 13 March 2026.Starcloud → filed application → Starcloud, Inc. application for launch and operating authority (ICFS File No. SAT-LOA-20260202-00073, Call Sign S00803)Inspect claim & evidence ↗
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up to 88,000 satellites (as worded: 'up to 88,000 satellites')
Qualification and date notes
A filing is not a grant. Acceptance for filing means only that the application was found acceptable on initial review. The application itself was not read.
Date filed as listed by the FCC; acceptance for filing listed in Report No. SAT-01982 of 13 March 2026. Date of filing as the regulator lists it.
- Starcloud states that Starcloud-2, its first commercial mission with a GPU cluster, will be fully operational in sun-synchronous orbit by 2027.Starcloud → announced plan → Starcloud-2 (planned)Inspect claim & evidence ↗
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Qualification and date notes
A target stated on an undated page; the page gives no launch date or vehicle. Not an achievement.
Undated page read on 2026-10-28.