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Alan Boyle @alanboyle@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

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A Seattle-area space startup that started out as #LumenOrbit has changed its name to #Starcloud - and has brought in an additional $10 million in funding for its plan to create data centers in orbit. https://www.geekwire.com/2025/lumen-orbit-starcloud-10m-space-data-centers/#Space #Tech #Cloud

Illustration: Starcloud data center being assembled in Earth orbit

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Winchell Chung ⚛🚀 @nyrath@spacey.space · 2 weeks ago

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@alanboyle

Interesting. So it could transform into an extraterritorial data haven. The servers are not located in any nation.

https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/macguffinite.php#taxhaven

El Dado Inquieto @eldadoinquieto@mastorol.es · last week

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@nyrath @alanboyle Yes, it's interesting. But be prepared to invest in some good solar storm shields to guard those backups.

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Michael Busch @michael_w_busch@mastodon.online · 2 weeks ago

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@nyrath @alanboyle

"A State Party to the Treaty on whose registry an object launched into outer space is carried shall retain jurisdiction and control over such object, and over any personnel thereof, while in outer space or on a celestial body."

https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/spacelaw/treaties/outerspacetreaty.html

If you launch from the United States; you may have to deal with United States search warrants.

Andrew @cinebox@hackers.town · 2 weeks ago

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@michael_w_busch @nyrath @alanboyle@mastodon.social sea launch time?

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Isaac Ji Kuo @isaackuo@spacey.space · 2 weeks ago

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@nyrath @alanboyle International waters are already a thing, though. There's a reason why even as idiotic as libertarians are, they have only attempted to stead the sea and not the space.

jonathankoren™ @jonathankoren@sfba.social · 2 weeks ago

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@isaackuo @nyrath @alanboyle of course, even then it goes wrong. When the Republic of Minerva was supposedly established on an unclaimed reef, Tonga simply sent a boat to the reef and put a flag on it.

Turns out to be a country, you don’t just need a flag, but also a gun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Minerva

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