Power & Energy
100 kW milestone
Hit the FCC filing's per-satellite reference: average compute power ≥ 80 kW sustained across eclipses.
★★★difficulty 3×1.3 reward
- Design power ≥ 100 kW
- Avg delivered power ≥ 80 kW
- Eclipse fraction ≤ 25%
OrbitalForge / missions
Missions & challenges
Each mission is a set of physics-anchored targets your design has to hit. Completing all targets applies a reward multiplier to your score. Browse by theme — every category maps to a real piece of the multi-planetary roadmap.
Power & Energy9 missions
Specific power, SBSP precursors, gigawatt pathfinders.
Power & Energy
Power density pioneer
Break 280 W/kg specific power (NASA SBSP advanced-array target is 300 W/kg) while delivering real avg power.
★★★difficulty 3×1.3 reward
- Specific power ≥ 280 W/kg
- Avg power ≥ 40 kW
Power & Energy
Sun-Synchronous Power Champion
Best-in-class avg delivered power in the 500 km sun-sync slot where most Earth-observation constellations live. Reach 70 kW average without leaving the band.
★★★★difficulty 4×1.5 reward
- Altitude ≥ 470 km
- Altitude ≤ 560 km
- Inclination ≥ 96.5° (sun-sync)
- Inclination ≤ 98.5°
- Avg delivered power ≥ 70 kW
- Eclipse fraction ≤ 40 %
Power & Energy
TERAFAB Node
TERAFAB-class building block. Sustain ≥80 kW average delivered power inside the SBSP-friendly 800–1200 km sun-sync band where lighting is most predictable.
★★★★difficulty 4×1.6 reward
- Altitude ≥ 800 km
- Altitude ≤ 1200 km
- Inclination ≥ 96° (sun-sync band)
- Inclination ≤ 100°
- Avg delivered power ≥ 80 kW
- Design power ≥ 100 kW (TERAFAB node)
Power & Energy
Triple threat
High power, high density, in-envelope. Do all three at once.
★★★★difficulty 4×1.5 reward
- Specific power ≥ 250 W/kg
- Avg power ≥ 70 kW
- Altitude ≥ 500 km
- Altitude ≤ 2000 km
Power & Energy
Frontier
Master challenge. Specific power at the NASA SBSP target, near-peak average power, altitude inside the main shell. Very few designs satisfy all four at once.
★★★★★difficulty 5×2.0 reward
- Specific power ≥ 300 W/kg (SBSP target)
- Avg power ≥ 90 kW
- Altitude ≥ 500 km
- Altitude ≤ 1500 km
Power & Energy
Gigawatt Pathfinder
First step toward gigawatt-class space industry. Hold ≥ 200 kW average delivered power per spacecraft with the SBSP-class specific-power target — the configuration TERAFAB-scale operators will want to multiply by thousands.
★★★★★difficulty 5×2.2 reward
- Design power ≥ 250 kW
- Avg delivered power ≥ 200 kW
- Specific power ≥ 250 W/kg
- Altitude ≥ 600 km
Power & Energy
Power Beaming Demo
Push the array close to the SBSP 300 W/kg target while running real compute. The demo case for an SBSP precursor: high specific power and high efficiency in the same bird.
★★★★★difficulty 5×1.9 reward
- Specific power ≥ 280 W/kg
- Cell efficiency ≥ 30 %
- Avg delivered power ≥ 60 kW
- Radiator emissivity ε ≥ 0.85
- Altitude ≥ 500 km
- Altitude ≤ 2000 km
Power & Energy
SBSP Precursor
Direct precursor to space-based solar power: meet the NASA SBSP 2024 advanced-array target of 300 W/kg with high cell efficiency, in the canonical SBSP altitude shell.
★★★★★difficulty 5×2.0 reward
- Specific power ≥ 300 W/kg (SBSP target)
- Cell efficiency ≥ 32 %
- Array ≥ 400 m²
- Altitude ≥ 800 km
- Altitude ≤ 1500 km