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Elon Musk built a second internet above the first one. Nobody asked him to. Thousands of satellites orbit at 550 kilometers. Moving at 25 times the speed of sound. Talking to each other through lasers in the vacuum of space. Musk: “Thousands of satellites providing low latency, high-speed internet... throughout the world.” Before Starlink, satellite internet lived at 36,000 kilometers. Geostationary orbit. Signals traveling a tenth of the way to the moon before bouncing back. The lag made it barely functional. Musk dropped the altitude by 98%. One decision rewrote the physics of an entire industry. But the altitude wasn’t the real play. Musk: “There are laser links between the satellites. It forms a laser mesh. The satellites can communicate between each other and provide connectivity even if the cables are cut.” Every internet connection you’ve ever used runs through cables. Fiber optic lines buried in soil. Dragged across ocean floors. Threaded through chokepoints that every military maps before anything else. A single anchor drop can black out a country. An earthquake can sever a continent. The entire digital world hangs from threads in the mud. Musk built a network that doesn’t touch the ground. No cables. No trenches. No ocean floor. No single point of failure. A constellation of machines whispering to each other through light at the edge of the atmosphere. The men who tried before him weren’t fools. Gates backed Teledesic at the height of Microsoft’s power. Motorola built Iridium with the best engineers alive. Both paid someone else to reach orbit. Both went to zero. Musk owned the rocket. SpaceX made launch reusable. Built the satellites in-house. Flew them on its own rockets. Owned every inch of the chain from factory floor to orbit. That isn’t a cost advantage. It’s a moat no one can cross without first building a rocket company from scratch. Starlink passed 10 million subscribers as a side project. Every telecom executive on Earth watched it happen. Not one of them can explain the architecture underneath. They think he built a better satellite company. He built the only network that survives when the ground gives out. And the ground always gives out.show more

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483,225 просмотров • 10 месяцев назад

Elon Musk just explained how Starlink moves the GDP of entire nations. The formula is so simple it should embarrass every development agency on the planet. Musk: “GDP is a function of average productivity per person.” Productivity per person goes up. GDP goes up. That is the whole equation. Everything else is decoration. And connectivity is the single largest lever on Earth for pushing that number. Musk: “If you don’t have access to the internet, or it’s too expensive or low bandwidth, you cannot access the MIT lessons and you can’t sell the goods and services that you produce.” No internet means no global knowledge. No global markets. No ability to sell to anyone beyond your village or learn from anyone outside of it. The penalty is total. And it has nothing to do with the person serving it. There is a child alive right now who is as intelligent as anyone who has ever walked the halls of MIT. She does not know it. Nobody around her knows it. Because the coordinates of her birth have no connectivity. No library. No signal. No link to the world that would show her what she is. She will grow old inside a ceiling that geography built for her. Not because of talent. Not because of effort. Because of a satellite that had not been launched yet. Musk: “Internet connectivity is certainly a candidate for one of the things that would do more to lift people out of poverty than anything else.” Traditional infrastructure takes decades. Fiber has to be laid. Towers have to be built. Permits have to be approved. Capital has to be attracted to regions that cannot attract it. Starlink bypasses all of it from orbit. No cables. No permits. No waiting for a government to prioritize your village. A dish goes up. Isolation ends. Someone who could not access a textbook yesterday downloads MIT’s entire curriculum today. Someone who could only sell to neighbors starts selling to the planet tomorrow. That is not an upgrade. That is a different life. Musk: “Starlink will actually move the GDP of countries. Like it’s gonna be that kind of thing.” He said it like a feature update. But read it again. Move the GDP of countries. Not a company’s revenue. Not an industry’s output. The gross domestic product of nations. Shifted by one constellation. The telecom industry spent decades deciding which regions were profitable enough to connect. The rest were written off. Starlink does not make that calculation. It covers the planet. Every farmer. Every welder. Every kid with a clear view of the sky. The minds that will cure diseases, solve energy, and build things we cannot yet name are already alive. They are already thinking. They have no signal. Starlink is the first technology in human history that can reach them at the speed of deployment instead of the speed of bureaucracy. And when those minds come online, they will not change their own lives. They will change the trajectory of the species. That is what Musk actually built. Not a telecom company. The largest unlock of human potential ever launched from a single network.

Elon Musk just explained how Starlink moves the GDP of entire nations. The formula is so simple it should embarrass every development agency on the planet. Musk: “GDP is a function of average productivity per person.” Productivity per person goes up. GDP goes up. That is the whole equation. Everything else is decoration. And connectivity is the single largest lever on Earth for pushing that number. Musk: “If you don’t have access to the internet, or it’s too expensive or low bandwidth, you cannot access the MIT lessons and you can’t sell the goods and services that you produce.” No internet means no global knowledge. No global markets. No ability to sell to anyone beyond your village or learn from anyone outside of it. The penalty is total. And it has nothing to do with the person serving it. There is a child alive right now who is as intelligent as anyone who has ever walked the halls of MIT. She does not know it. Nobody around her knows it. Because the coordinates of her birth have no connectivity. No library. No signal. No link to the world that would show her what she is. She will grow old inside a ceiling that geography built for her. Not because of talent. Not because of effort. Because of a satellite that had not been launched yet. Musk: “Internet connectivity is certainly a candidate for one of the things that would do more to lift people out of poverty than anything else.” Traditional infrastructure takes decades. Fiber has to be laid. Towers have to be built. Permits have to be approved. Capital has to be attracted to regions that cannot attract it. Starlink bypasses all of it from orbit. No cables. No permits. No waiting for a government to prioritize your village. A dish goes up. Isolation ends. Someone who could not access a textbook yesterday downloads MIT’s entire curriculum today. Someone who could only sell to neighbors starts selling to the planet tomorrow. That is not an upgrade. That is a different life. Musk: “Starlink will actually move the GDP of countries. Like it’s gonna be that kind of thing.” He said it like a feature update. But read it again. Move the GDP of countries. Not a company’s revenue. Not an industry’s output. The gross domestic product of nations. Shifted by one constellation. The telecom industry spent decades deciding which regions were profitable enough to connect. The rest were written off. Starlink does not make that calculation. It covers the planet. Every farmer. Every welder. Every kid with a clear view of the sky. The minds that will cure diseases, solve energy, and build things we cannot yet name are already alive. They are already thinking. They have no signal. Starlink is the first technology in human history that can reach them at the speed of deployment instead of the speed of bureaucracy. And when those minds come online, they will not change their own lives. They will change the trajectory of the species. That is what Musk actually built. Not a telecom company. The largest unlock of human potential ever launched from a single network.

Dustin

910,990 просмотров • 6 месяцев назад

China expands its space presence from the sea: a new leap in building its satellite internet network China successfully launched a Gravity-1 rocket from the sea off the coast of Shanghai, carrying eight Qianfan constellation satellites and an experimental high-speed communications satellite, placing them into an orbit at an altitude of 800 kilometers. Notably, the payload exceeded 3 tons, setting a new Chinese record for payload mass and orbital altitude in a single sea launch. This was also the rocket’s fourth successful sea launch. In my view, the most important aspect is not the launch itself, but the speed at which these operations are being repeated and China’s ability to turn sea launches into a practical and recurring option for building its space infrastructure. With the continued deployment of Qianfan satellites, China appears to be steadily expanding its own satellite internet network.

China expands its space presence from the sea: a new leap in building its satellite internet network China successfully launched a Gravity-1 rocket from the sea off the coast of Shanghai, carrying eight Qianfan constellation satellites and an experimental high-speed communications satellite, placing them into an orbit at an altitude of 800 kilometers. Notably, the payload exceeded 3 tons, setting a new Chinese record for payload mass and orbital altitude in a single sea launch. This was also the rocket’s fourth successful sea launch. In my view, the most important aspect is not the launch itself, but the speed at which these operations are being repeated and China’s ability to turn sea launches into a practical and recurring option for building its space infrastructure. With the continued deployment of Qianfan satellites, China appears to be steadily expanding its own satellite internet network.

China pulse 🇨🇳

14,324 просмотров • 8 дней назад

Elon Musk just told you what Tesla was actually built for. It was never cars. Musk: “If successful, Optimus will be the biggest product ever.” The automobile reshaped civilization. The smartphone rewired human behavior. He’s saying Optimus dwarfs both. Then he ranked it against everything else he’s building. Musk: “It might be more of my mental cycles than anything else, any other single thing, on Optimus.” The man building the world’s most valuable car company, landing rockets on drone ships, and racing toward superintelligence spends most of his thinking on the robot. Musk: “It will have the manual dexterity of a human, an AI mind that can navigate and comprehend reality, and be made in very high volume.” Human hands. A mind that comprehends the physical world. Volume manufacturing. Three problems no one has solved. He’s going after all three at once, in the same machine. Musk: “None of the actuators in Optimus are available from an existing supply chain. We have to recreate it from scratch.” No existing parts. No existing suppliers. No existing industry. He’s building the entire manufacturing base from nothing. Then putting a robot on top of it. This is the pattern people keep missing. He didn’t build an electric car. He built Gigafactories, a global charging network, and a battery supply chain that made EVs inevitable. The car was the output. He didn’t build a rocket. He built the engines, the factory, and the landing systems until reusable launch became routine. The rocket was the output. Then the machine handed him a second business. Global satellite internet had been impossible for decades, not technically but financially, because nobody could afford to launch thousands of satellites. Once the rockets came back and flew again, that cost collapsed. Starlink wasn’t a new bet. It was leftover capacity. Same play. Every time. Build the machine that builds the machine. Then the thing becomes unstoppable. Optimus is that play at a scale that makes everything before it look small. Every product in human history extended a single human capability. The hammer extended the fist. The telescope extended the eye. The computer extended the mind. Optimus doesn’t extend one capability. It replicates all of them. At volume. Every economy, every government, every career path, every border ever drawn was organized around one scarcity. Human hands and human hours. Optimus is what happens when that scarcity disappears. For ten thousand years, human worth was measured by output. What you could build. What you could carry. What you could produce. Every one of those years was spent building tools to escape that measurement. Not once did we stop to ask what’s waiting on the other side. We’re approaching the moment the measurement breaks. Not a new product. Not a new industry. The first real test of whether we can define ourselves by anything other than our labor. And the man forcing that question just told you it takes more of his mind than cars, rockets, and superintelligence combined.

Elon Musk just told you what Tesla was actually built for. It was never cars. Musk: “If successful, Optimus will be the biggest product ever.” The automobile reshaped civilization. The smartphone rewired human behavior. He’s saying Optimus dwarfs both. Then he ranked it against everything else he’s building. Musk: “It might be more of my mental cycles than anything else, any other single thing, on Optimus.” The man building the world’s most valuable car company, landing rockets on drone ships, and racing toward superintelligence spends most of his thinking on the robot. Musk: “It will have the manual dexterity of a human, an AI mind that can navigate and comprehend reality, and be made in very high volume.” Human hands. A mind that comprehends the physical world. Volume manufacturing. Three problems no one has solved. He’s going after all three at once, in the same machine. Musk: “None of the actuators in Optimus are available from an existing supply chain. We have to recreate it from scratch.” No existing parts. No existing suppliers. No existing industry. He’s building the entire manufacturing base from nothing. Then putting a robot on top of it. This is the pattern people keep missing. He didn’t build an electric car. He built Gigafactories, a global charging network, and a battery supply chain that made EVs inevitable. The car was the output. He didn’t build a rocket. He built the engines, the factory, and the landing systems until reusable launch became routine. The rocket was the output. Then the machine handed him a second business. Global satellite internet had been impossible for decades, not technically but financially, because nobody could afford to launch thousands of satellites. Once the rockets came back and flew again, that cost collapsed. Starlink wasn’t a new bet. It was leftover capacity. Same play. Every time. Build the machine that builds the machine. Then the thing becomes unstoppable. Optimus is that play at a scale that makes everything before it look small. Every product in human history extended a single human capability. The hammer extended the fist. The telescope extended the eye. The computer extended the mind. Optimus doesn’t extend one capability. It replicates all of them. At volume. Every economy, every government, every career path, every border ever drawn was organized around one scarcity. Human hands and human hours. Optimus is what happens when that scarcity disappears. For ten thousand years, human worth was measured by output. What you could build. What you could carry. What you could produce. Every one of those years was spent building tools to escape that measurement. Not once did we stop to ask what’s waiting on the other side. We’re approaching the moment the measurement breaks. Not a new product. Not a new industry. The first real test of whether we can define ourselves by anything other than our labor. And the man forcing that question just told you it takes more of his mind than cars, rockets, and superintelligence combined.

Dustin

277,558 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

NEWS: SpaceX has detailed Starmind, its plan for up to 1 million AI compute satellites in orbit, on a new website. Starmind moves AI data centers into space. Each satellite runs AI compute in orbit and beams results to Earth through Starlink lasers. The satellites draw constant solar power and cool for free in the vacuum. SpaceX filed that plan with the FCC in January. The first satellite, AI1, carries 150 kW of peak compute and spans 70 meters. Starship will carry 30 to 50 AI1 satellites per launch. SpaceX will build them at a new Gigasat factory in Bastrop, Texas. The AI chips come from a planned SpaceX and Tesla fab called Terafab. Two prototypes target early 2027, with thousands of satellites from late 2027.

NEWS: SpaceX has detailed Starmind, its plan for up to 1 million AI compute satellites in orbit, on a new website. Starmind moves AI data centers into space. Each satellite runs AI compute in orbit and beams results to Earth through Starlink lasers. The satellites draw constant solar power and cool for free in the vacuum. SpaceX filed that plan with the FCC in January. The first satellite, AI1, carries 150 kW of peak compute and spans 70 meters. Starship will carry 30 to 50 AI1 satellites per launch. SpaceX will build them at a new Gigasat factory in Bastrop, Texas. The AI chips come from a planned SpaceX and Tesla fab called Terafab. Two prototypes target early 2027, with thousands of satellites from late 2027.

Muskonomy

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There are more than 15,000 satellites orbiting the Earth by the end of 2025 already. A space satellite is launched into orbit using a powerful rocket that lifts it through Earth’s atmosphere at speeds over 17,500 miles per hour (28,000 km/h). Once it reaches the right altitude and velocity, the rocket releases the satellite, allowing it to circle Earth due to the balance between gravity pulling it down and its forward speed carrying it around the planet. Satellites are used for communication, GPS, weather tracking, military operations, and scientific research, silently orbiting hundreds or even thousands of miles above us.

There are more than 15,000 satellites orbiting the Earth by the end of 2025 already. A space satellite is launched into orbit using a powerful rocket that lifts it through Earth’s atmosphere at speeds over 17,500 miles per hour (28,000 km/h). Once it reaches the right altitude and velocity, the rocket releases the satellite, allowing it to circle Earth due to the balance between gravity pulling it down and its forward speed carrying it around the planet. Satellites are used for communication, GPS, weather tracking, military operations, and scientific research, silently orbiting hundreds or even thousands of miles above us.

Cosmos Archive

20,929 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад

$Elon Musk was asked how he’d manufacture satellites at scale. He described building a factory on the moon. And almost nobody caught what he was laying out. Musk: “The lunar soil is like 20% silicon. So you can mine the silicon on the moon, refine it, and create the solar cells and the radiators on the moon.” He’s not talking about going to the moon. He’s talking about turning it into a production line. Mining silicon from lunar soil. Refining it on the surface. Building solar cells from materials already in the ground. Building radiators from aluminum buried in the dust. No supply ships. No trillion-dollar cargo drops. Extract, refine, build. On site. Musk: “You can make the radiators out of aluminum. There’s plenty of silicon and aluminum on the moon.” The physics backs every word. Lunar regolith is loaded with silicon and aluminum oxide. One-sixth gravity means launching finished products into orbit costs a fraction of the energy. No atmosphere means zero drag, zero weather, zero corrosion. For manufacturing, the moon isn’t just viable. It’s superior to Earth. Musk: “The chips you could send from Earth, ‘cause they’re pretty light.” That’s a complete off-world supply chain in twelve words. Heavy components sourced from lunar materials. Lightweight chips shipped from Earth at minimal cost. The full framework for off-planet manufacturing, solved in a single sentence. This isn’t a theorist speculating. This is the man who already lands orbital rockets on ocean barges. Running supply chain math out loud in real time. And nobody is sitting with what comes next. If the moon becomes a manufacturing base, Earth doesn’t stay at the center of anything. Earth becomes a chip supplier. The planet that invented writing, built every empire, launched the Enlightenment. Reduced to a parts vendor for a lunar factory. Every civilization in history was built on the same bet. Control land, resources, and trade routes on this planet. Every war. Every treaty. Every border. All fought over the same thin crust of rock and water. Musk is the first person engineering around that entire system. The most strategic territory in the solar system won’t be on this planet. It’ll be a quarter million miles above it. Whoever controls lunar manufacturing controls orbital infrastructure. Energy systems. Communication networks. Satellite constellations that blanket the planet below. Not through military force. Through supply chain. The nation that builds factories on the moon doesn’t need to win wars down here. They already hold the highest ground that’s ever existed. And right now, one man’s company is the only operation on Earth with the launch infrastructure to make any of this real. Built over twenty years while the rest of the industry called reusable rocketry impossible. He didn’t build a rocket company. He built the only road off this planet that works. We looked at the moon for ten thousand years and saw something sacred. One man looked up and saw a supply chain. The poets had the moon for millennia. The engineers just took it.$

Elon Musk was asked how he’d manufacture satellites at scale. He described building a factory on the moon. And almost nobody caught what he was laying out. Musk: “The lunar soil is like 20% silicon. So you can mine the silicon on the moon, refine it, and create the solar cells and the radiators on the moon.” He’s not talking about going to the moon. He’s talking about turning it into a production line. Mining silicon from lunar soil. Refining it on the surface. Building solar cells from materials already in the ground. Building radiators from aluminum buried in the dust. No supply ships. No trillion-dollar cargo drops. Extract, refine, build. On site. Musk: “You can make the radiators out of aluminum. There’s plenty of silicon and aluminum on the moon.” The physics backs every word. Lunar regolith is loaded with silicon and aluminum oxide. One-sixth gravity means launching finished products into orbit costs a fraction of the energy. No atmosphere means zero drag, zero weather, zero corrosion. For manufacturing, the moon isn’t just viable. It’s superior to Earth. Musk: “The chips you could send from Earth, ‘cause they’re pretty light.” That’s a complete off-world supply chain in twelve words. Heavy components sourced from lunar materials. Lightweight chips shipped from Earth at minimal cost. The full framework for off-planet manufacturing, solved in a single sentence. This isn’t a theorist speculating. This is the man who already lands orbital rockets on ocean barges. Running supply chain math out loud in real time. And nobody is sitting with what comes next. If the moon becomes a manufacturing base, Earth doesn’t stay at the center of anything. Earth becomes a chip supplier. The planet that invented writing, built every empire, launched the Enlightenment. Reduced to a parts vendor for a lunar factory. Every civilization in history was built on the same bet. Control land, resources, and trade routes on this planet. Every war. Every treaty. Every border. All fought over the same thin crust of rock and water. Musk is the first person engineering around that entire system. The most strategic territory in the solar system won’t be on this planet. It’ll be a quarter million miles above it. Whoever controls lunar manufacturing controls orbital infrastructure. Energy systems. Communication networks. Satellite constellations that blanket the planet below. Not through military force. Through supply chain. The nation that builds factories on the moon doesn’t need to win wars down here. They already hold the highest ground that’s ever existed. And right now, one man’s company is the only operation on Earth with the launch infrastructure to make any of this real. Built over twenty years while the rest of the industry called reusable rocketry impossible. He didn’t build a rocket company. He built the only road off this planet that works. We looked at the moon for ten thousand years and saw something sacred. One man looked up and saw a supply chain. The poets had the moon for millennia. The engineers just took it.

Dustin

73,605 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад

elon musk just sat down with his SpaceX team and explained exactly how they're going to turn humanity into a kardashev type 2 civilization it's one of the most insane things i've ever watched: 1. humanity currently uses less than one trillionth of the sun's energy output. a trillion is a million times a million. on the kardashev scale, the one physicists use to measure how advanced a civilization actually is, we are not even registering. we are effectively non-existent. 2. starship is the first rocket in history designed to be fully reusable. every other mode of transport, cars, planes, ships, bicycles, you take reusability for granted. rockets have always been thrown away after one use. if you had to throw away the plane after every flight, almost nobody would be flying. 3. spacex currently launches 85 to 90% of all mass to orbit on earth. the rest of the world, including most of the us, accounts for maybe 5 to 7%. that's before starship even gets going. 4. the plan is to go from 2,500 tons to orbit per year to a million tons per year. in roughly 3 years. that's not a projection. that's the internal target. 5. data centers are moving to space. by end of next year spacex is targeting 1 gigawatt of ai compute in orbit. then 10x every year after that. 10 gigawatts in 2.5 years. 100 gigawatts in 3.5 years. a terawatt eventually, which is twice the entire electricity consumption of the united states. 6. the ai satellite is actually simpler to build than a starlink satellite. it's mostly solar panels, a radiator, and a rack of gpus. the hard part was already solved building starlink. they're just making it bigger. 7. latency from orbit is about 3 milliseconds. light travels 300 km per millisecond. some people assume orbital compute means high latency. it doesn't. it's 3 milliseconds away. 8. the terafab will be 100 million square feet. ten times the size of the tesla gigafactory texas. the entire global chip industry is on track to hit maybe 100 gigawatts of ai compute per year. a terawatt requires a completely different order of manufacturing. that's why they're building it themselves. 9. to go beyond a terawatt you have to go to the moon. no atmosphere. one-sixth earth's gravity. you manufacture solar panels and radiators directly from moon materials. then you launch ai satellites into deep space using an electromagnetic rail gun. no rocket needed. musk calls this the mass driver. this is the next step on the actual roadmap. 10. if enough mass is going to the moon to run a rail gun operation at that scale, it also means regular people can go. musk's exact words: "i think everyone should go to the moon at least once." 11. the ai satellite has about a terabit of laser link connectivity. it connects to the starlink constellation which then sends data to the ground using frequencies that penetrate clouds and even roofs. the connection never drops regardless of weather. 12. the reference design for the first ai satellites is built around nvidia rubin and GB300 chips. but the architecture is open. google TPUs, amazon trainium, any chip can go up. spacex is building the infrastructure, not locking in the compute. 13. spacex is the only operator on earth with experience running a constellation at the scale of 10,000 satellites. nobody else is even close. that operational knowledge is a moat that cannot be replicated quickly.

elon musk just sat down with his SpaceX team and explained exactly how they're going to turn humanity into a kardashev type 2 civilization it's one of the most insane things i've ever watched: 1. humanity currently uses less than one trillionth of the sun's energy output. a trillion is a million times a million. on the kardashev scale, the one physicists use to measure how advanced a civilization actually is, we are not even registering. we are effectively non-existent. 2. starship is the first rocket in history designed to be fully reusable. every other mode of transport, cars, planes, ships, bicycles, you take reusability for granted. rockets have always been thrown away after one use. if you had to throw away the plane after every flight, almost nobody would be flying. 3. spacex currently launches 85 to 90% of all mass to orbit on earth. the rest of the world, including most of the us, accounts for maybe 5 to 7%. that's before starship even gets going. 4. the plan is to go from 2,500 tons to orbit per year to a million tons per year. in roughly 3 years. that's not a projection. that's the internal target. 5. data centers are moving to space. by end of next year spacex is targeting 1 gigawatt of ai compute in orbit. then 10x every year after that. 10 gigawatts in 2.5 years. 100 gigawatts in 3.5 years. a terawatt eventually, which is twice the entire electricity consumption of the united states. 6. the ai satellite is actually simpler to build than a starlink satellite. it's mostly solar panels, a radiator, and a rack of gpus. the hard part was already solved building starlink. they're just making it bigger. 7. latency from orbit is about 3 milliseconds. light travels 300 km per millisecond. some people assume orbital compute means high latency. it doesn't. it's 3 milliseconds away. 8. the terafab will be 100 million square feet. ten times the size of the tesla gigafactory texas. the entire global chip industry is on track to hit maybe 100 gigawatts of ai compute per year. a terawatt requires a completely different order of manufacturing. that's why they're building it themselves. 9. to go beyond a terawatt you have to go to the moon. no atmosphere. one-sixth earth's gravity. you manufacture solar panels and radiators directly from moon materials. then you launch ai satellites into deep space using an electromagnetic rail gun. no rocket needed. musk calls this the mass driver. this is the next step on the actual roadmap. 10. if enough mass is going to the moon to run a rail gun operation at that scale, it also means regular people can go. musk's exact words: "i think everyone should go to the moon at least once." 11. the ai satellite has about a terabit of laser link connectivity. it connects to the starlink constellation which then sends data to the ground using frequencies that penetrate clouds and even roofs. the connection never drops regardless of weather. 12. the reference design for the first ai satellites is built around nvidia rubin and GB300 chips. but the architecture is open. google TPUs, amazon trainium, any chip can go up. spacex is building the infrastructure, not locking in the compute. 13. spacex is the only operator on earth with experience running a constellation at the scale of 10,000 satellites. nobody else is even close. that operational knowledge is a moat that cannot be replicated quickly.

Jaynit

78,836 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад