Johnston: StarCloud 3 targets 10 megawatts of compute per Starship launch
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Philip Johnston, CEO of StarCloud, outlines the manufacturing roadmap and compute density targets for the StarCloud 3 space vehicle.
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“We are about to move into a much, much larger facility. We're building a kind of campus to set up a huge manufacturing line for what we're calling StarCloud three, which is, like, the vehicle which will fit on Starship, so we can potentially fit up to 10 megawatts of compute capacity per Starship launch.”
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