Partnership Will Utilize Power Beaming to Enhance Capabilities
Star Catcher and Starcloud Working Together on the Project
A strategic partnership has been announced between Star Catcher and Starcloud that will utilize Star Catcher’s orbital energy grid to accelerate the deployment and enhance the performance of Starcloud’s on-orbit data centers.
“This partnership showcases exactly why we’re building the Star Catcher Network — to enable more powerful missions and higher uptime.”
Andrew Rush, Star Catcher
Via this partnership, Star Catcher will deliver dedicated solar energy to the forthcoming Starcloud constellation via the company’s advanced orbital power grid — the Star Catcher Network.
Starcloud is building a network of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites to enable real-time high-performance compute, initially for edge applications. The Star Catcher Network offers a first-of-its-kind space-to-space power beaming service. By transmitting concentrated solar energy to clients’ existing onboard solar arrays — with no retrofit required — it provides satellite operators with up to five to ten times more power. This enables higher up time for more energy-intensive operations such as advanced data processing, extended mission durations, and more capable payloads.
For Starcloud, the additional power means faster deployment of its constellation and the ability to serve more customers, more reliably — turning capital expenditure into operational flexibility and revenue growth.
“This partnership showcases exactly why we’re building the Star Catcher Network — to enable more powerful missions and higher uptime,” said Andrew Rush, Co-Founder & CEO of Star Catcher. “With Starcloud, we’re proving how energy-as-a-service can unlock new economic models and mission capabilities.”
As the Star Catcher Network expands, Starcloud’s in-orbit compute capabilities may also support Star Catcher’s growing need for high-performance processing on orbit — demonstrating the mutual benefits of a connected, scalable infrastructure ecosystem.
“We’re excited to partner with Star Catcher to increase the uptime of our satellites by utilizing the energy they can deliver directly to our constellation,” said Philip Johnston, Co-Founder & CEO of Starcloud. “We’re also looking forward to potentially supporting Star Catcher’s compute needs on orbit with our high-performance GPUs.”
Together, Star Catcher and Starcloud are building the infrastructure backbone for a more capable, connected future in space. By combining scalable in-orbit computing with on-demand, concentrated orbital energy, the partnership marks a major step toward a new era of modular, responsive space systems — where power and data flow freely to wherever and whenever they’re needed most.