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Ground TruthEnergyThe Missing Layer in the Orbital DatacenterEvery week seems to bring another announcement from the orbital compute sector. GPU clusters in low Earth orbit. On-orbit AI inference. Edge intelligence at the edge of the atmosphere. Hundreds of millions have been committed in 2025 and 2026 alone. The engineering is serious. Companies have put working hardware in orbit and trained AI models in space. But almost every announcement stops at the same point. The hardware exists, or soon will. What nobody is announcing is the commercial motion: the repeatable path from orbital GPU capacity to an enterprise…

Field NotesEnergyThe Mine Loses Its Memory Before Production BeginsPicture a mine and you picture production: the trucks, the crusher and the ore moving.Field NotesEnergyYou Bought the Machine. You Don’t Own the Data.Late last year, I spoke with several IT engineers at a major European energy company about connectivity options for offshore—and potentially remote onshore—assets.Field NotesEnergyThe Gap Nobody OwnsWhen an asset-intensive company — a mining operator, an energy producer, a maritime fleet — decides it needs connectivity at a site, the conversation almost always starts in the wrong place.

SignalCross-IndustryStoke Space raises another billion to rival SpaceX at re-flying rockets SignalCross-IndustryNew star in comms firmament – Softbank positions HAPS between terrestrial and satellite SignalCross-IndustryNorthrop’s robot space mechanic is a new way to keep satellites at work longer SignalCross-IndustryStarcloud raises $250 million for orbital data centers as launch options dry up SignalCross-IndustrySpace is coming for Silicon

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