Philip Johnston

We're with Philip Johnston, the CEO, and we're going to go through the $2 billion company and what they're building behind us.

That's the satellite we launched in November last year with the first NVIDIA H100s on board.

StarCloud One separation confirmed.

Top secret.

Okay.

We're with Philip Johnston, the CEO, and we're going to go through the $2 billion company and what they're building behind us.

So welcome to StarCloud.

On the screen, we actually have the location of StarCloud 1.

Axiom Space Inc., a US company developing orbital data centres, said its architecture was conceived from the outset with the expectation of hostile targeting, treating protection as a foundational engineering requirement.

Philip Johnston, chief executive of fellow developer StarCloud Inc., offered a contrasting view, arguing that orbital placement could expose such infrastructure to fewer threats than ground-based alternatives, and that dispersing units across a sufficiently large total count would mean neutralising a handful leaves overall capability largely intact.

Orbital debris risks and the possibility of geopolitical escalation act as natural brakes on established space-faring nations considering kinetic strikes.

However, a state with comparatively little infrastructure in orbit would feel far less constrained by those same calculations.