70m/230ft satellite data-centers enabling exascale AI for robotics, scientific breakthroughs & immersive realities
Created: 2025-07-31
Updated: 2025-09-06
Company - IZN
Product/Service
- Classification
- Space Utilities
- Category
- Space Data Centre
- Fields
- Orbital Data Centre
- Status
- Early stage
- First launch
- Not announced
StarBlade is a 70-meter/230-foot long data-center satellite, currently in the prototype phase.
The StarBlade architecture uses origami & 4D printed compliant mechanisms to transition from a compact form into a fully functional expanded satellite.
Built in South Africa - 70 meter long, 4 meter wide space data-centers, developed and manufactured in South Africa.
Minimal Energy Costs - By leveraging the abundant energy available in space, space data-centers can recover ~15% of the operating costs incurred by terrestrial data-centers.
Exponentially Scalable - Space data-centers scale continually without constraints faced by terrestrial counterparts
High Capitalization Efficiency - Space data-centers maximize capitalization efficiency by reducing the traditionally disintegrated infrastructure hierarchy into a self contained unit
More Sustainable Than Terrestrial Data-Centers - Space data-centers remove the negative impact large scale terrestrial data-centers have on our planet by being deployed into orbit.
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