What changes when AI compute moves off Earth?
SpaceVision models a ground route and an orbital route for the same prompt, then compares response delay, energy use, and cooling-water use.
Built by Oleh Lahoda after reading Starcloud’s paper.
SpaceVision Engineering Paper
The research behind every route in SpaceVision.
The night I found the paper
At 1:32 a.m. in my Dublin School dorm, I was finishing a video about quantum computers when a Starcloud newsletter arrived. It was the first I’d heard of AI data centers in orbit. I opened their paper that night.
The question I tried to answer
The paper explained the orbital hardware. I still wanted to know what one ordinary prompt would look like from the ground: how far it would travel, how long that would take, and where cooling water entered the comparison. I made SpaceVision to explore that.
My first sketch
I went through research on data-center cooling and satellite links, then sketched a globe with a location pin and a place to send a prompt. That drawing became SpaceVision.
What SpaceVision models
Move the pin to choose where the request begins, then send a prompt. A real AI model writes the replies. The ground and orbital routes, travel times, and cooling-water comparison are modeled, with the assumptions labeled alongside the results.