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Special Report — SpaceX IPO Series
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The biggest real estate deal since Day 7 dawned.
Opinion — By the Editors, SpaceWar.com — May 2026
What SpaceX filed with the FCC on January 30 was not a data center proposal.
It was a land claim — on the orbital territory that will determine who controls
the power infrastructure of the space economy for the next century.
The data centers are the story being sold to investors on the roadshow.
The orbital slots are the land being acquired under ITU first-come-first-served rules
that no subsequent entrant can displace. The $1.75 trillion IPO is how someone else
pays for it. In four parts, SpaceWar.com examines what is real, what is not,
and what the S-1 says that the roadshow never will.
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Part One — The Physics
Orbital Data Centers: The $1.75 Trillion Bridge To Nowhere
Radiation destroys leading-edge silicon. Vacuum prevents cooling at GPU densities.
Latency rules out the workloads that pay the bills. The S-1 says the programme
“may not achieve commercial viability.” The roadshow says otherwise.
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Part Two — The Strategy
Beyond The Data Center: The Orbital Power Grid Nobody Is Talking About
If orbital data centers cannot work on the advertised timeline, what is the
FCC filing for one million satellites actually securing? The answer points to
the power and logistics infrastructure of the space economy — and a prize
far larger than AI compute.
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Part 2a — The Engineering
The Shadow Side: The Thermal Claim That Makes The Data Center Story Sound True
Pointing the spacecraft’s waste-heat face at deep space is real engineering.
It works perfectly for a solar power array. For a GPU cluster the numbers
are off by a factor of 11,000. This is the load-bearing technical claim of
a $1.75 trillion offering — and why it is true for the real application
while failing completely for the stated one.
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A SpaceWar.com investigation — May 2026 —
Updated with SpaceX S-1 filing, May 20, 2026
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From conflict to cleaning, expo showcases China's drone dominance
Russians looking for drone interceptors brushed shoulders with entrepreneurs keen to see the latest industrial cleaning technology at a massive industry expo showcasing China's dominance of the drone industry on Thursday. Unmanned aerial vehicles of all sizes, antennaed detection devices and anti-jamming gadgets straight out of a science fiction movie were on display at the Drone World Congress as it opened in the southern Chinese tech hub of Shenzhen.
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Middle East war and Iran |
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China, diplomacy and regional security |
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Other fronts and signals |
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