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Technical deep-dives, industry analysis, and dispatches from the team building the runtime for orbital compute.
Compute Isn't a Placement Problem Anymore
For fifty years, distributed systems have asked one question: where should this workload run? Orbital compute forces a different question, and it's going to change how we build infrastructure on Earth too.
Inside CAE: How a Feasible Plan Gets Built in Under Two Seconds
An engineering view of CAE, the constraint-aware execution planner from RotaStellar. We walk the four-phase pipeline (orbital environment, placemen...
Introducing the Rotastellar Operator Agent
RotaStellar now has an execution layer. The Operator Agent SDK is a Rust crate that runs on satellites, executes workloads, and streams events back...
We Shipped the First Orbital Compute Scheduler. Here's How It Works.
RotaStellar CAE is live: the first API that computes constraint-aware execution plans for orbital workloads using real SGP4 propagation, eclipse de...
Everyone's Racing to Launch Orbital Data Centers. Nobody's Talking About the Software.
The orbital data center gold rush is real. But getting GPUs to orbit is the easy part. The hard part is the software stack that makes them useful.
RotaStellar SDKs Now Available: Python, Node.js, and Rust
We've released official SDKs for Python, Node.js, and Rust. Get started with orbital intelligence and space compute planning in minutes.
Sustainable AI: Why Space Might Be the Greenest Place to Train Models
The physics and economics of orbital compute for environmentally conscious AI
Will 2027 Really Be the Year AI Goes to Orbit?
A critical look at the timeline-and the technical milestones that will determine if it's real
Thermal Management in Vacuum: What the Simulations Show
Counterintuitive findings from modeling heat rejection for orbital data centers
Latency Myths in Orbital Compute
Why the numbers everyone quotes are wrong-and what actually matters
Conjunction Analysis at Scale: 10,000 Satellites and Growing
The computational challenges nobody talks about-and what we learned building a system to handle them
The Economics of Space Data Centers
A framework for understanding when orbital compute actually makes sense
Introducing RotaStellar
Why we're building software infrastructure for the orbital computing era
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