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The cloud for space.

OPEN BACKBONELIVE MESH · KRIOS ORCHESTRATION
LAUNCHING NOW
10,000+
SATELLITES THIS DECADE
27,000 km/h
ORBITAL SPEED, EVERY NODE
~4.5 min
CONTACT WINDOW PER PASS

To Dare rents out compute in orbit. We launch the open backbone constellation, run it with five years of orbit-tested software, and let any operator plug in and sell compute through us.

FIVE YEARS AT GEORGIA TECH ~600,000 ROUTES SIMULATED ACM SOCC '24 BEST PAPER HOTEDGE '20 · IETF 116 · PAM '23 · IEEE COMPUTER '25
01 · THE PROBLEM

Connectivity went up. Compute never did.

In July 2025, one bad config push took 8,000 satellites dark for two and a half hours. Not a rocket, not space weather — one shared control plane, no canary, no staged rollback, nothing to isolate a bad node.

The outage was the symptom. The disease is bigger: we spent a decade putting the internet in orbit and never built the compute. That gap is a fortune sitting in the dark.

JULY 2025 · ONE SHARED BRAIN
8,000 NODES DARK · 2.5 HOURS
CONSEQUENCE ONE · RESILIENCY
Space is fragile.

No isolation layer means one bad push cascades fleet-wide. One company runs the sky off one shared brain.

TODAY'S ORBIT · STRANDED COMPUTE
SILICON IDLE · NO CLOUD TO SELL IT
MONETIZED IDLE
CONSEQUENCE TWO · COMPUTE
A fortune is stranded.

Silicon sits idle in orbit with no cloud to sell it through. No one has built the layer that turns it into revenue.

02 · THE PLATFORM

Compute you rent, not software you install.

Kubernetes for orbit — but you never install it. We operate the cloud; customers rent compute by the minute. The brain is five years of orbit-tested software. The body is the open backbone we launch.

StarLoom FAILURE ISOLATION
33×

fewer satellites affected by a bad update — 3% of the fleet instead of all of it.

265× faster recovery in control failures

Krios ORCHESTRATION
470 → 1

application copies collapsed to a single live instance across a moving constellation.

The first orchestrator built for orbit

Kratos FLEET EFFICIENCY
−10%

satellites required for the same mission coverage — a leaner constellation.

Same mission, smaller fleet

Every figure measured on real orbital models of Starlink, Kuiper & Telesat — ~600,000 simulated routes.

03 · HOW IT WORKS

The giants won't let anyone in. We let everyone in.

01
Your workload

Earth observation, ISR, telecom, AI. You buy compute by the minute — not software to install, not a satellite to build.

02
The To Dare cloud

Our constellation, run by Krios. We don't ask the giants for room — we fly our own nodes and open them to everyone.

03
The long tail plugs in

Any operator connects their satellites and sells capacity through us — the ~9,000 operators the giants lock out, each one a new node on the cloud.

04 · WHO IT'S FOR

The demand is already in orbit.

Three kinds of buyer, all already paying for the pain — from wildfire detection to maritime defense. One cloud answers every one of them.

Faster SPEED SEEKERS

Fires found three hours late from the ground are caught on-pass when the compute runs in orbit.

Never down RESILIENCE SEEKERS

Millions were cut off in July's outage. Isolation and staged rollout are the product, not an afterthought.

Cheaper CAPACITY SEEKERS

Data centers are running out of grid power. Orbit isn't — silicon overhead is capacity waiting to be sold.

05 · RESEARCH

This isn't a thesis. It's measured.

All publications
Krios — scheduling abstractions for a LEO compute cloud BEST PAPER ACM SOCC · 2024 StarLoom — resilient control plane for LEO constellations PREPRINT · ACM EUROSYS · 2026 A characterization of route variability in LEO satellite networks PAM · MAR 2023 Toward loosely coupled orchestration for the LEO satellite edge HOTEDGE · JUL 2020 Ushering in the low Earth orbit compute cloud era IEEE COMPUTER · OCT 2025 Don't let your LEO edge fade at night HOTINFRA · JUN 2023
06 · WHAT'S NEXT

Simulated for five years. Now we fly it.

You can't prove an orbital cloud on EC2, and no operator will hand over control-plane access. So we don't ask. We buy a flight-proven bus, own the payload and the software, and put five years of numbers into orbit.

2026
Buy the bus.

A flight-proven ESPA-class bus, contract-manufactured. Our IP is the payload: compute, optical links, orchestration. Launch is a price list, not a risk.

2027
Fly the first mesh.

Real satellite-to-satellite interconnect, first compute sold on orbit, two signed pilots. The simulations meet vacuum — and hold.

THEN
The snowball.

10,000+ satellites launch this decade — every one a node to serve or onboard. Operators plug in, the mesh compounds: the world of compute, unlocked.

Simulated on real orbital models of Starlink, Kuiper & Telesat. Flown on our own nodes from 2026.

The frontier's open. The best ground is still unclaimed.

This round flies the first mesh: real satellite-to-satellite interconnect, first compute sold on orbit, and two signed pilots.

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