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Los Angeles startup building a constellation of solar-powered satellites that run AI compute in orbit.
Los Angeles startup building a constellation of solar-powered satellites that run AI compute in orbit.
Provisional: the latest data refresh looked incomplete and was held, so these scores use inputs measured 2026-10-10.
Not ranked: Only 44% of applicable weight is backed by data; 50% is needed to rank.
2 of 6 inputs measured · Insufficient data · 44% of applicable weight backed by data
Not measured: Headcount, Market value, Reported revenue
Not measured: Open-role change (90 days)
A pillar score averages the company’s percentiles among the tracked companies with a value: relative standing, not a grade. Inputs measured 2026-10-10 (UTC) · methodology v6. Every input, its value and percentile · How it is computed
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Sources: Headquarters, Ownership, Legal name
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1 private round on record. Debt, grants, state capital, owner funding and acquisitions are listed under Funding history by class and not added in.
Stage, milestones, announced next steps and slips, funding and filings, every fact sourced:
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Compiled Oct 12, 2026 from 1 public record. Every figure links the record it comes from.
Latest sourced round
Pre-Seed: $5.0M
Lead recorded as a16z Speedrun
Source: Payload Space
Announced Jun 9, 2026
Recorded as lead of Pre-Seed (Jun 9, 2026)
Payload Space, Jun 9, 2026
APA
SpaceNexus. (2026, October 12). Orbital: Company dossier [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/orbital-compute
Chicago
SpaceNexus. "Orbital: Company dossier." Data as of October 12, 2026. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/orbital-compute.
BibTeX
@misc{spacenexus_orbital_2026,
author = {{SpaceNexus}},
title = {{Orbital}: Company dossier},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
howpublished = {\url{https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/orbital-compute}},
url = {https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/orbital-compute},
urldate = {2026-10-12},
note = {Data as of 2026-10-12; each fact links its primary source}
}