# Orbital Inc. has closed on a funding round of an undisclosed amount led by Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z Speedrun.

*aerospace · news · 2026-04-14 · SiliconANGLE News*

## Key points

- Orbital Inc. closed a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z Speedrun for its orbital AI venture.
- Orbital’s first test mission, Orbital-1, aims to validate GPU operations in high-radiation space environments by April 2027.
- Its satellites will host Nvidia-powered servers focused on AI inference workloads, distributed across orbital clusters.
- Orbital’s design eliminates in-orbit maintenance by planning for satellite replacement and full controlled deorbit at end-of-life.
- Latency for their target workloads is expected to match terrestrial fiber connections, at 20-40 milliseconds round trip.

**Companies:** Google LLC, Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com Inc., SpaceX Corp., Orbital Inc.
**Countries:** United States

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