Full source notes appear at the end of each part. Primary sources relied on most heavily: Google Research, Exploring a space-based, scalable AI infrastructure system design and Towards a future spacebased, highly scalable AI infrastructure system design (arXiv:2511.19468), solar yield, reference orbit, cluster architecture, and the TPU radiation testing that underpins Chapters 6 and 12. Voyager Technologies Form 10-K, 10 March 2026, the only publicly disclosed Starship contract price.
NASA ISS Active Thermal Control System documentation and the Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets radiator literature, the 70 kW benchmark in Chapter 11. EPRI, Powering Intelligence 2026, and PJM interconnection data, the queue figures in Chapter 1. Thales Alenia Space, ASCEND study results, June 2024, Chapter 17. SpaceNews and Xinhua reporting on the Three-Body Computing Constellation, Chapter 17. StarCap Fund I Thesis v2, 27 July 2026, company-level research, disclosed as the author’s own. Verification status. This is a working draft. Items flagged in the source notes as requiring verification, most importantly spacecraft build cost per kilogram, array cost per watt, space insurance market scale, and per-orbit debris flux must be sourced to primary documents before publication. The structure of the arguments does not depend on them; several of the conclusions do.