Alpha Funds

12/30/2025

PLEASE WELCOME SPACE FOR HUMANITY'S NEWEST BOARD MEMBERS!

We’re thrilled to announce that Sirisha Bandla, Viren Mehta, and J.D. Russell have joined Space for Humanity’s Board of Directors.

Each brings extraordinary experience, perspective, and passion that will help launch S4H's newest missions.

Sirisha Bandla is an aeronautical engineer, commercial spaceflight leader, and astronaut who flew on Virgin Galactic’s Unity 22 mission. With deep experience at the intersection of space, policy, and research, she brings a powerful global perspective to our work.

Viren Mehta is a global healthcare advisor and founder of Mehta Partners, with decades of experience expanding access to life-saving care worldwide. His background in biopharma, philanthropy, and global health adds invaluable insight into impact-driven leadership.

J.D. Russell is an entrepreneur, investor, and astronaut who has flown twice with Blue Origin. Founder of Alpha Funds and AlphaAero, as well as the Victoria Russell Foundation, J.D. brings a unique blend of aerospace investment expertise and mission-driven philanthropy.

Please join us in congratulating Sirisha, Viren, and J.D.!

We’re incredibly excited for the insight, leadership, and energy they bring as we continue working to democratize access to space and the transformative power of the Overview Effect.

Ryan Alexander Kriser Dylan Taylor Antonio Peronace Katya Echazarreta Yemi Akinyemi

12/29/2025

Welcome to the new orbital economy

- Exploding demand for space data: Earth observation, broadband constellations, science payloads, and national security missions are generating more data than downlink capacity can economically handle, creating a clear need for in orbit compute.

- Downlink is the bottleneck: Processing, filtering, and compressing data on orbit reduces how much must be transmitted to the ground, lowering operating cost per useful insight and improving margins.

- Faster decisions, higher value outputs: On orbit analytics enables near real time tasking, detection, and response, which is where customers pay premium pricing, especially in defense, maritime, and disaster response.

- Energy and cooling fundamentals improve over time: Access to continuous solar power in certain orbits and the physics of operating in vacuum create a long term path to lower energy cost per compute unit as designs mature.

- A platform business, not a single mission: Orbital data centers can become multi tenant infrastructure, offering compute, storage, and secure workloads as a service, with strong switching costs and recurring revenue.

- Sovereign and regulated compute tailwinds: Governments and critical industries increasingly require controlled, auditable data handling, and in orbit processing can support national, allied, and enterprise compliance needs with dedicated architectures.

- Resilience and continuity value: Space based compute and storage adds geographic and terrestrial infrastructure independence, valuable for redundancy, disaster recovery, and contested environment operations.

- Launch and hardware cost curves are improving: Reusable launch, standardized satellites, and high volume production expand the feasible market, allowing orbital compute to scale from niche missions to broad commercial adoption.

12/29/2025

Welcome to the new orbital economy!

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12/18/2025

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11/25/2025

The future of computing for large language models in space data centers will blend orbital infrastructure, advanced edge processing, and AI autonomy into a single integrated ecosystem, supported by a growing wave of investment in space infrastructure as a core thesis. As constellations of satellites and platforms in low Earth orbit and cislunar space expand, LLMs will run directly in orbit on radiation tolerant, high efficiency compute, enabling real time translation, tasking, anomaly detection, cybersecurity, and mission planning without round trip latency to Earth. Space based data centers will ingest vast sensor streams from Earth observation, communications, and deep space missions, curate and compress that data with LLMs and multimodal models, and send only the most valuable insights to the ground, saving bandwidth and cost while creating new asset classes for investors who back this critical infrastructure. Over time, LLMs will coordinate swarms of satellites, schedule power and thermal loads, and autonomously negotiate spectrum and routing, while federated training between space and terrestrial facilities keeps models updated without exposing sensitive raw data. This progression will turn space data centers from passive relay nodes into intelligent infrastructure and will reward investors who understand that capital deployed into orbital computing, storage, and connectivity is a foundational enabler of human decision making across Earth orbit and beyond.

Energy constraints in the artificial-intelligence race are causing tech companies to think out of this world.

11/24/2025

Space technology is no longer a distant or experimental domain, it is a practical engine for economic growth and resilience,”

J.D. Russell Speaks on Space Tech at Latin American Business Council which included President of Ecuador and President of the Dominican Republic

11/24/2025

Alpha Funds Astronaut J.D. Russell speaks on Commercial Space Capability at Silicon Valley Space Week

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11/22/2025

The team at Alpha Funds wishes a Happy Space-aversary to our own J.D. Russell and Austin Litteral who flew over the Karman line one year ago today.

The New Shepard reusable launch system was launched from and landed at Blue Origin’s Launch Site One in West Texas, on 22 November 2024, at 15:30 UTC (09:30 ...

11/20/2025

Blue Origin leaders and space travelers at the New Glenn NG-2 Launch!