LITHIEN
Jacob Solawetz
CO-FOUNDER & CHIEF ASTRO OFFICER
Repeat AI founder — previously created Roboflow and Arcee AI. Certified welder, fabricator, and Lake Superior mariner. Leads hardware, fabrication, and the Copper Harbor fab.
LOW EARTH ORBIT · COPPER HARBOR, MICHIGAN · SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
The Space MicroGrid.
Lithien wires solar Generators into an orbital micro-grid. Fly within reach, plug into a delivery cord, and draw — from a single Raspberry Pi to a full space datacenter. You don't buy hardware. You buy watts, delivered. First power targeted 2027.
THE PRODUCT
The Lithien Generator
A Generator is a diamond-form solar array with a panel on every face — whatever its attitude, the sun is always on a facet. Harness wires run off every panel, gather at the vertex, and braid into one central delivery cord terminated in a standard orbital power coupler. Fly your payload within reach, plug in, and draw. Every Generator is a node: stacked vertex-to-vertex and cross-wired, they form the Space MicroGrid — one feed that scales from a single-board computer to a megawatt datacenter.
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Diamond array
A solar panel on every facet — power in any attitude, no tracking hardware to fail.
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Facet harness
Copper runs off every panel gather at the vertex into a single trunk.
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Delivery cord
One central cord, one standard coupler. Plug in and draw.
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Buffer storage
Onboard packs ride through eclipse so delivery never drops.
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Station-keeping
Holds formation with your datacenter through every orbit.
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Metering & comms
Telemetry and billing accurate to the delivered watt.
FIRST GENERATOR ARTICLES IN FABRICATION AND TEST IN COPPER HARBOR · FIRST POWER TARGETED 2027
PRICING
Priced in watts delivered.
No hardware purchase, no launch contract, no operations team. You contract for watts at the MicroGrid bus and pay for what the meter reads — continuous delivery, eclipse included. Priced in the units that matter: what your hardware draws for a year. First deliveries in low Earth orbit targeted 2027.
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Raspberry Pi
$70/yr
≈ 7 W DELIVERED · CONTINUOUS · $10/W·YR
One Pi-class payload
A Raspberry Pi running in orbit, around the clock, for less than a phone plan. One cord tap on the MicroGrid.
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Jetson MOST RESERVED
$400/yr
≈ 40 W DELIVERED · CONTINUOUS · $10/W·YR
One Jetson-class AI module
Edge inference in orbit — a Jetson-class module always on, eclipse included.
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Space datacenter
$8/W
PER WATT DELIVERED · PER YEAR
1 MW and up
Dedicated Generator constellations with redundant cords and metered SLAs — $8M powers a megawatt datacenter for a year.
What a watt-hour buys.
Watts are the raw unit — tokens are what you're really buying. Every watt-hour metered at your bus converts to model work:
| Model | Training | Inference | One watt · one year |
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| 7B | ~17,000 tok / Wh | ~51,000 tok / Wh | ~150M trained · ~450M served |
| 30B | ~4,000 tok / Wh | ~12,000 tok / Wh | ~35M trained · ~105M served |
| 70B | ~1,700 tok / Wh | ~5,100 tok / Wh | ~15M trained · ~45M served |
Assumes ~200 GFLOPS sustained per delivered watt, all-in; 6N FLOPs per training token, 2N per inference token for an N-parameter model. Your accelerators may do better.
RESERVING 2027 DELIVERY CAPACITY NOW — power@lithien.com
THE FAB
Fabricated in Copper Harbor.
The thermal case.
Copper Harbor sits at the tip of the Keweenaw on Lake Superior — the coldest, stormiest water in the Lower 48. Winters here cycle hardware through the kind of deep cold a Generator sees in eclipse, and the lake is an effectively unlimited cold sink for thermal test stands. If a facet harness holds power through a Superior winter, it is ready for orbit.
The trades.
The Copper Country has run mines, mills, and machine shops for 180 years, with Michigan Tech's mining and materials engineers across the water in Houghton. We hire the descendants of the people who built the hardest industry in America — and pay them like it.
The ore basin.
Lake Superior is the deepest domestic mineral endowment in the United States, and Copper Harbor sits in the middle of it. The Keweenaw's native copper district — the largest concentration of native copper on Earth, laced with native silver — electrified America once, and permitted projects are reopening it now; it is the same copper our facet harnesses and delivery cords are wound from. Down the shore, the Marquette Range still ships iron, and Eagle Mine produces the country's only primary nickel. Across the lake, Minnesota's Iron Range holds the Mesabi's iron and taconite; the Cuyuna Range's manganese, the largest known resource in the nation; and the Duluth Complex — copper, nickel, cobalt, platinum, palladium, gold, and silver in one of the world's largest undeveloped deposits — alongside titanium and vanadium in its oxide bodies, including Longnose, the largest and richest ilmenite deposit in North America, already piloted to 99.8% titanium dioxide. Rare earths are here too: mineralization identified in 2025 at legacy iron properties in both Minnesota and Michigan's Upper Peninsula, with occurrences documented historically in the Wausau syenites of central Wisconsin. West along the rail corridor, the Bakken field supplies domestic crude at scale. Iron, copper, nickel, energy — every metal a Generator needs moves through this basin, by rail and by water, through the largest freshwater shipping system on Earth.
THE LAKE SUPERIOR ORE BASIN · MARKERS APPROXIMATE
One powers one.
For every watt Lithien delivers to a commercial datacenter, we donate a delivered watt to science working at a frontier — orbital research platforms, deep-space relays, remote sensing for communities that need it. Delivery is the product. Delivery is also the point.
FOUNDERS
Erik Magliarditi
CO-FOUNDER & CEO
Spent his career at SpaceX in mission integration, launching government satellites. Before SpaceX, built satellite-constellation analysis software and computer-vision models at MIT. Leads software and go-to-market from San Francisco.
Andrew Suiter
CO-FOUNDER & CSO
Harvard-trained in architectural design and construction engineering. Previously founded Alectro, putting solar to work on trains. Leads Generator structure and solar array design.
JOIN THE BUILD
How we work.
Hardware happens in Copper Harbor — long, focused build stints with housing, meals, and the best shop on Lake Superior. Software and go-to-market run remote and off-grid-friendly, with six weeks a year at either the harbor or San Francisco. Machinist and trades roles run in seasonal bursts: short, intense, and very well paid.
Site Electrician COPPER HARBOR SEASONAL BURST PREMIUM DAY RATE + ROOM & BOARD
Stand up and maintain fab power end to end: generation across solar, wind, micro-hydro, and gen-sets; storage; distribution; and shop feeds — then wire Generator facet harnesses and delivery cords to spec and keep it all safe in weather that doesn't care. Based at the Copper Harbor fab.
You: licensed electrician (journeyman or above) with off-grid, marine, or heavy-industrial experience. Comfortable being weathered in. Can rig, improvise, and document.
Apply: careers@lithien.com — put the role in the subject line.
Welding Specialist COPPER HARBOR SEASONAL BURST PREMIUM DAY RATE + ROOM & BOARD
Structural and precision work on Generator frames and cord couplers: MIG and TIG on steel and stainless, fixturing, distortion control, and weld inspection to print.
You: certified (AWS or equivalent) with a stainless TIG portfolio. Fluent in a fab shop, reads drawings, and is happiest laying beads for weeks straight.
Apply: careers@lithien.com — put the role in the subject line.
Space Physicist SAN FRANCISCO OR REMOTE 6 WKS/YR ON-SITE FULL-TIME
Own the physics of delivery: formation flight with customer datacenters, harness and cord power budgets, eclipse and thermal analysis, and radiation life of the facet arrays — validated on the bench with the fabrication team in Copper Harbor.
You: PhD or equivalent scar tissue in physics or aerospace. Hands-on instincts, strong in both simulation and hardware test. Prior flight hardware a plus.
Apply: careers@lithien.com — put the role in the subject line.
Industrial Designer SAN FRANCISCO OR REMOTE 6 WKS/YR ON-SITE FULL-TIME
Define how Generators look, wire, and plug in: the diamond form, facet and harness layouts, the delivery coupler interface, and the visual system that makes orbital power feel as dependable as a wall socket.
You: portfolio spanning hard product and spatial design. CAD-fluent, details for manufacturability, and wants the work fabricated a hundred yards from your desk.
Apply: careers@lithien.com — put the role in the subject line.
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