Opportunity Blueprints
The Orbital Cloud creates the conditions for a new class of software vendors. These are the business models waiting for founders—the 'White Space' where the next generation of unicorns will be built.
The Application Layer
Mapping the 'White Space' opportunities for software founders on the Orbital Cloud.
The Global Supply Auditor
Commodity trading firms currently rely on delayed quarterly reports. An orbital app could sell real-time APIs measuring oil tank shadows and container volumes.
Infrastructure Required
The Dark Ship Hunter
Illegal fishing and sanction evasion relies on turning off AIS. An orbital app can fuse RF listening with Optical imaging to flag 'Dark' vessels instantly.
Infrastructure Required
The Parametric Insurer
Crop insurance claims take months. A smart-contract app triggered by orbital moisture data can automate payouts, removing the claims adjuster entirely.
Infrastructure Required
The Grid Monitor
Electric utilities spend millions on helicopter inspections. An orbital app can monitor vegetation encroachment and thermal line conditions continuously.
Infrastructure Required
The Protein Studio
Microgravity crystallization produces superior drug structures. An orbital app can rent manufacturing capacity and return capsules on-demand.
Infrastructure Required
The Hypersonic Sentry
Ground radar cannot track Mach 5+ glide vehicles due to earth curvature. An orbital mesh must fuse IR and optical data on the edge to maintain 'custody' tracks in milliseconds without ground latency.
Infrastructure Required
The Battlefield Cloud
In contested zones, ground links are jammed. An orbital cloud acts as a secure forward server, processing drone swarm targeting data and authorizing strikes via optical inter-satellite links.
Infrastructure Required
The Orbital Guardian
Adversarial satellites perform proximity maneuvers when out of ground contact. On-orbit vision models must autonomously detect hostile approaches and trigger evasive actions immediately.
Infrastructure Required
The Orbital AI Factory
Training massive LLMs on Earth is hitting thermal and power limits. An orbital server farm utilizes infinite solar and 0°K radiative cooling to train secure models 'air-gapped' by the vacuum of space.
Infrastructure Required