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Orbital Industries (Orbital)

AI-first industrial company

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Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded year: 2022
Company type: Private company
Number of employees: 10–70
Industry: Specialty Chemicals

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Latest news about Orbital Industries (Orbital)

In short: Orbital raised $50 million and filed plans with the FCC to launch 100,000 data center satellites to support massive AI infrastructure.

Company announcements

July 10 Orbital

Orbital analyzes the concentration of chipmaking and its risks

It traces the history of semiconductor manufacturing concentrating in East Asia, highlighting risks from geopolitics and the need for domestic production.

June 2 Orbital

Orbital introduces OrbMol-v2, outperforming hybrid DFT

It is 5x faster than competing models, achieves NER 1.62, and is open-source.

May 28 Orbital

Orbital raises $50 million Series B

Funding led by Plural will scale data-centre products, grow teams in London and San Francisco, and accelerate its AI engine and hardware development.

May 27 Orbital

Orbital launches Orbital IT for AI data center infrastructure

The new brand offers liquid-cooled data centers and advanced thermal materials, leveraging Orbital's three disciplines.

Media coverage

June 30 SpaceNews

Orbital files plans for 100,000 orbital data centers

Five-month-old startup Orbital has asked the Federal Communications Commission for permission to deploy up to 100,000 data center satellites, aiming to bring 10 gigawatts of...

June 10 Analytics Insight

Orbital Announces April 2027 Launch for First AI Data Center Satellite

Orbital has set April 2027 as the launch date for Orbital 1, a project that could push computing beyond Earth. The mission will send a...

June 10 Tech Times

Orbital Industries Raises $50M to Use AI for Discovering Exotic New Materials

The race to point artificial intelligence at the physical world gained another contender as Orbital Industries raised a $50 million Series B, led by the...

May 28 Yahoo

In this Manhattan lab, AI designs materials from scratch

Radical AI’s ‘self-driving’ lab designs and tests new alloys, speeding up a material R&D process tha...

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