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SPACESHORE.AI

Our goal / photonic compute in orbit

The lowest $ per TOPS-hour in the Solar System.

Spaceshore is designing a low-energy photonic compute architecture and the solar-powered spacecraft concept that could scale it in orbit.

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CONCEPT STAGE / NO FLIGHT HARDWARE OR OPERATIONAL SERVICE

COMPANY NORTH STAR$ / DELIVERED TOPS-HOURMINIMISE THE COMPLETE SYSTEM COST

01 / The economic engine

The chip changes the whole spacecraft.

Our core hypothesis is that lower wall-power energy per operation can reduce power-generation hardware, heat-rejection mass and launch cost per unit of delivered compute.

  1. LowerJ / operation
  2. Can reduceelectrical power
  3. Can reducewaste heat
  4. Can shrinkPV + radiator
  5. Can improveTOPS / kg
  6. Can lower$ / TOPS-hour
THE CHIP MUST WIN AT THE WALL

Laser pumps, modulators, detectors, ADC/DAC, memory, control, packaging and communications stay inside the power and mass boundary. Optical-core efficiency alone does not close the claim.

CONCEPT VISUALISATION / NOT FLIGHT HARDWARE

02 / The orbital tile

Build the spacecraft around the chip.

The reference concept is one square metre: solar capture on the Sun face, a candidate photonic compute plane in the middle and passive heat rejection toward cold space.

01Solar power02Photonic core03Passive thermal
Vehicle1.000 m²one autonomous compute panel
Modelled bus198.7 Wdawn–dusk silicon reference
Modelled mass12.89 kg9.00 kg target / mass open
ComputeBenchmark openqualified wall-power result required
A formation of thin solar-powered compute spacecraft above Earth's dawn–dusk terminator

03 / Solar Swarm

One tile becomes a swarm.

Every panel is intended to fly itself. Many identical compute spacecraft share one launch, then separate, phase, station-keep, avoid conjunctions and own their disposal paths.

  1. 01Launch together
  2. 02Separate safely
  3. 03Compute in sunlight
  4. 04Return results
  5. 05Deorbit independently

A dedicated carrier becomes part of the system only when it lowers delivered compute cost.

04 / Proof before scale

Prove the denominator.

The mission is economic. Evidence starts with the photonic chip, then expands outward through thermal hardware, flight and launch.

01Now

Prove the chip

Measure qualified workload throughput at the complete wall-power boundary: lasers, conversion, memory and control included.

BENCHMARK OPEN
02Next

Close the tile

Demonstrate the one-square-metre power, compute and passive-thermal stack on the ground at flight-relevant mass.

MASS + THERMAL OPEN
03Then

Fly one. Scale many.

Use a hosted orbital demonstrator before deploying autonomous panels as a shared-launch Solar Swarm.

FLIGHT PROGRAMME OPEN
04Later

Lower launch cost

Build a dedicated swarm carrier only when it measurably reduces dollars per delivered TOPS-hour.

CARRIER NOT YET SIZED

05 / Open model

Audit every assumption.

The cost ratio is a target, not a closed result. Quotations, measured chip data and operational evidence must replace every provisional term before the objective becomes a claim.

“Delivered” means the target workload completes at stated precision and accuracy, using complete wall power, and its result reaches the agreed service boundary.

Orbit, power, storage, thermal, mass and launch assumptionsAudit the engineering model →