Muon Space unveils Starship-class satellite platform for orbital data centers

Muon Space announced a Starship-class satellite platform June 3 designed from the ground up to meet the demands of the emerging orbital data center market, with an initial launch slated for 2028 after securing customers.

The Condor-Ultra platform would initially offer 20 kilowatts of baseline power and more than 18 square meters of nadir payload area, with Starlink Mini Lasers from SpaceX to use its broadband constellation for inter-satellite data relay.

Greg Smirin, president of the five-year-old Californian satellite maker, said "Condor-Ultra is a different magnitude entirely" than the 500-kilogram XL platform announced last year, at three times the weight and five times the power of what was previously its largest and most powerful spacecraft.