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Starship Flight 13 goals: • Deploy 20 next-generation Starlink V3 satellites for the first time • Test Starlink V3 solar arrays, antennas, and laser communications in space • Execute launch, ascent, stage separation, boostback burn, and offshore landing burn for Super Heavy • Test Super Heavy hardware and software... upgrades to improve engine re-light reliability • Perform an in-space Raptor engine re-light • Demonstrate Starship propulsion system upgrades to improve engine reliability • Conduct a controlled reentry, descent, and splashdown in the Indian Ocean • Use six Starlink V3 satellites to image Starship’s heat shield during flight • Evaluate upgraded heat shield tiles, attachment methods, and load-sensing tiles for future reusabilityshow more

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Starship Flight 13 goals: • Deploy 20 next-generation Starlink V3 satellites for the first time • Test Starlink V3 solar arrays, antennas, and laser communications in space • Execute launch, ascent, stage separation, boostback burn, and offshore landing burn for Super Heavy • Test Super Heavy hardware and software upgrades to improve engine re-light reliability • Perform an in-space Raptor engine re-light • Demonstrate Starship propulsion system upgrades to improve engine reliability • Conduct a controlled reentry, descent, and splashdown in the Indian Ocean • Use six Starlink V3 satellites to image Starship’s heat shield during flight • Evaluate upgraded heat shield tiles, attachment methods, and load-sensing tiles for future reusability

Starship Flight 13 goals: • Deploy 20 next-generation Starlink V3 satellites for the first time • Test Starlink V3 solar arrays, antennas, and laser communications in space • Execute launch, ascent, stage separation, boostback burn, and offshore landing burn for Super Heavy • Test Super Heavy hardware and software upgrades to improve engine re-light reliability • Perform an in-space Raptor engine re-light • Demonstrate Starship propulsion system upgrades to improve engine reliability • Conduct a controlled reentry, descent, and splashdown in the Indian Ocean • Use six Starlink V3 satellites to image Starship’s heat shield during flight • Evaluate upgraded heat shield tiles, attachment methods, and load-sensing tiles for future reusability

Dima Zeniuk

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Starship Flight 12 goals: • Debut next-generation Starship and Super Heavy vehicles • First launch from Starbase’s newly redesigned launch pad • Demonstrate upgraded Raptor engines in flight • Deploy 20 Starlink simulators and 2 modified Starlink satellites • Test in-space Raptor relight • Evaluate heat shield performance and tile damage scenarios during reentry • Perform experimental reentry and maneuvering tests • Offshore splashdown attempt for the redesigned Super Heavy booster

Starship Flight 12 goals: • Debut next-generation Starship and Super Heavy vehicles • First launch from Starbase’s newly redesigned launch pad • Demonstrate upgraded Raptor engines in flight • Deploy 20 Starlink simulators and 2 modified Starlink satellites • Test in-space Raptor relight • Evaluate heat shield performance and tile damage scenarios during reentry • Perform experimental reentry and maneuvering tests • Offshore splashdown attempt for the redesigned Super Heavy booster

Dima Zeniuk

14,759,606 views • 3 months ago

NEWS: SpaceX has released a statement after today's successful 11th Starship test flight. "Every major objective of the flight test was achieved, providing valuable data as we prepare the next generation of Starship and Super Heavy. The flight test began with Super Heavy igniting all 33 Raptor engines and ascending over the Gulf. The successful first-stage ascent was followed by a hot-staging maneuver, with Starship’s upper stage igniting its six Raptor engines to continue its flight to space. Following stage separation, the Super Heavy booster completed its boostback burn to put it on a course to a pre-planned splashdown zone off the coast of Texas using 12 of the 13 planned engines. Under the same angle of attack tested on the previous flight, the booster descended until successfully igniting all 13 planned engines (including one that did not relight during the boostback burn) for the high-thrust portion of the landing burn. The booster successfully executed a unique landing burn planned for use on the next generation booster. Super Heavy hovered above the water before shutting down its engines and splashing down. After completing a full-duration ascent burn, Starship achieved its planned velocity and trajectory. During flight, Starship successfully deployed eight Starlink simulators and executed the third in-space relight of a Raptor engine, demonstrating a critical capability for future deorbit burns. Starship re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere and was able to gather extensive data on the performance of its heatshield as it was intentionally stressed to test the limits of the vehicle’s capabilities. In the final minutes of flight, Starship performed a dynamic banking maneuver to mimic the trajectory that future missions returning to Starbase will fly. Starship then guided itself using its four flaps to the pre-planned splashdown zone in the Indian Ocean, successfully executing a landing flip, landing burn, and soft splashdown. Focus now turns to the next generation of Starship and Super Heavy, with multiple vehicles currently in active build and preparing for tests. This next iteration will be used for the first Starship orbital flights, operational payload missions, propellant transfer, and more as we iterate to a fully and rapidly reusable vehicle with service to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and beyond."

NEWS: SpaceX has released a statement after today's successful 11th Starship test flight. "Every major objective of the flight test was achieved, providing valuable data as we prepare the next generation of Starship and Super Heavy. The flight test began with Super Heavy igniting all 33 Raptor engines and ascending over the Gulf. The successful first-stage ascent was followed by a hot-staging maneuver, with Starship’s upper stage igniting its six Raptor engines to continue its flight to space. Following stage separation, the Super Heavy booster completed its boostback burn to put it on a course to a pre-planned splashdown zone off the coast of Texas using 12 of the 13 planned engines. Under the same angle of attack tested on the previous flight, the booster descended until successfully igniting all 13 planned engines (including one that did not relight during the boostback burn) for the high-thrust portion of the landing burn. The booster successfully executed a unique landing burn planned for use on the next generation booster. Super Heavy hovered above the water before shutting down its engines and splashing down. After completing a full-duration ascent burn, Starship achieved its planned velocity and trajectory. During flight, Starship successfully deployed eight Starlink simulators and executed the third in-space relight of a Raptor engine, demonstrating a critical capability for future deorbit burns. Starship re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere and was able to gather extensive data on the performance of its heatshield as it was intentionally stressed to test the limits of the vehicle’s capabilities. In the final minutes of flight, Starship performed a dynamic banking maneuver to mimic the trajectory that future missions returning to Starbase will fly. Starship then guided itself using its four flaps to the pre-planned splashdown zone in the Indian Ocean, successfully executing a landing flip, landing burn, and soft splashdown. Focus now turns to the next generation of Starship and Super Heavy, with multiple vehicles currently in active build and preparing for tests. This next iteration will be used for the first Starship orbital flights, operational payload missions, propellant transfer, and more as we iterate to a fully and rapidly reusable vehicle with service to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and beyond."

Sawyer Merritt

273,302 views • 10 months ago

🇺🇸 SPACEX STARSHIP FLIGHT 10 HITS EVERY TARGET IN SPECTACULAR LAUNCH SpaceX just pulled it off. Starship, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, blasted out of South Texas on its 10th test flight and nailed every key milestone. The Super Heavy booster executed a controlled splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico, while the upper stage soared to space, re-ignited an engine, deployed dummy Starlink satellites, then survived reentry before breaking up on impact with the ocean. SpaceX says the mission stressed the vehicle’s limits and delivered invaluable data for the next-generation Starship. Source: SpaceCom Video: Dima Zeniuk

🇺🇸 SPACEX STARSHIP FLIGHT 10 HITS EVERY TARGET IN SPECTACULAR LAUNCH SpaceX just pulled it off. Starship, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, blasted out of South Texas on its 10th test flight and nailed every key milestone. The Super Heavy booster executed a controlled splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico, while the upper stage soared to space, re-ignited an engine, deployed dummy Starlink satellites, then survived reentry before breaking up on impact with the ocean. SpaceX says the mission stressed the vehicle’s limits and delivered invaluable data for the next-generation Starship. Source: SpaceCom Video: Dima Zeniuk

Mario Nawfal

79,853 views • 11 months ago

SpaceX has introduced a new website for its next-generation Starlink V3 satellites, along with new information about the satellite. • 1 Tbps downlink capacity (~10× higher than Starlink V2). • 160 Gbps uplink capacity (~22× higher than Starlink V2). • 2,048 downlink beams + 2,048 uplink beams (vs. 192 downlink/144 uplink beams on V2). • Upgraded phased array antennas enable the increased user capacity and beam count. • New SpaceX-designed beamformer chips power the phased arrays. • Modem chips handle ~64× more throughput per chip, allowing more efficient simultaneous service and real-time beam allocation based on demand. • Each satellite includes 6 high-capacity 400 Gbps laser links, enabling a redundant petabit-scale laser mesh network for global routing. • Each satellite also has 4 quad-band RF backhaul antennas operating across Ka, E, V, and W bands. • RF backhaul capacity increases to 1.2 Tbps (>8× Starlink V2). • Backhaul uplink supports 60 GHz of spectrum across frequencies and polarizations (4.3× more than V2). • New solar arrays generate ~2× the power of the V2 satellite arrays. • Solar arrays are manufactured using a continuous roll of solar blanket, cut into 19-meter sections, with 4 sections stitched together per array. • Solar arrays are optimized to reduce atmospheric drag in low Earth orbit. • A Starship launch carrying V3 satellites will deploy ~20× more network capacity than a Falcon 9 launch carrying V2 satellites. • V3 technology will support future Starlink Mobile Gen 2 satellites, delivering terrestrial-like LTE speeds directly to unmodified smartphones. Website:

SpaceX has introduced a new website for its next-generation Starlink V3 satellites, along with new information about the satellite. • 1 Tbps downlink capacity (~10× higher than Starlink V2). • 160 Gbps uplink capacity (~22× higher than Starlink V2). • 2,048 downlink beams + 2,048 uplink beams (vs. 192 downlink/144 uplink beams on V2). • Upgraded phased array antennas enable the increased user capacity and beam count. • New SpaceX-designed beamformer chips power the phased arrays. • Modem chips handle ~64× more throughput per chip, allowing more efficient simultaneous service and real-time beam allocation based on demand. • Each satellite includes 6 high-capacity 400 Gbps laser links, enabling a redundant petabit-scale laser mesh network for global routing. • Each satellite also has 4 quad-band RF backhaul antennas operating across Ka, E, V, and W bands. • RF backhaul capacity increases to 1.2 Tbps (>8× Starlink V2). • Backhaul uplink supports 60 GHz of spectrum across frequencies and polarizations (4.3× more than V2). • New solar arrays generate ~2× the power of the V2 satellite arrays. • Solar arrays are manufactured using a continuous roll of solar blanket, cut into 19-meter sections, with 4 sections stitched together per array. • Solar arrays are optimized to reduce atmospheric drag in low Earth orbit. • A Starship launch carrying V3 satellites will deploy ~20× more network capacity than a Falcon 9 launch carrying V2 satellites. • V3 technology will support future Starlink Mobile Gen 2 satellites, delivering terrestrial-like LTE speeds directly to unmodified smartphones. Website:

Sawyer Merritt

242,948 views • 1 month ago

NEW STARLINK GIGABIT DISHES INCOMING—FASTER THAN FIBER? SpaceX is turning up the heat with its next-gen Starlink gigabit connection gear! New dishes are in the works: * 2 Gigs, No Wires – New dish pushes speeds up to 2 Gbps. Blink and you’ll miss your download. * Next-Level Mini – A souped-up follow-up to the Starlink Mini is already in the pipeline. * Waiting on Launch – Needs FCC clearance and a Starship boost to get those V3 satellites in orbit. * Fiber, Who? – Tighter beams. Lower lag. Bigger bandwidth. Space-based internet just got real. Expect business users to get first dibs for now—but don’t blink! The future of lightning-fast satellite internet is closing in. Source: PCMag

NEW STARLINK GIGABIT DISHES INCOMING—FASTER THAN FIBER? SpaceX is turning up the heat with its next-gen Starlink gigabit connection gear! New dishes are in the works: * 2 Gigs, No Wires – New dish pushes speeds up to 2 Gbps. Blink and you’ll miss your download. * Next-Level Mini – A souped-up follow-up to the Starlink Mini is already in the pipeline. * Waiting on Launch – Needs FCC clearance and a Starship boost to get those V3 satellites in orbit. * Fiber, Who? – Tighter beams. Lower lag. Bigger bandwidth. Space-based internet just got real. Expect business users to get first dibs for now—but don’t blink! The future of lightning-fast satellite internet is closing in. Source: PCMag

Mario Nawfal

684,310 views • 1 year ago

Watch the flawless launch sequence of SpaceX’s Starship, showcasing one of the most advanced engineering feats in modern rocketry. Notice the hot staging sequence, where the upper-stage Starship ignites its Raptor engines before separating from the Super Heavy booster. This method reduces gravity losses and improves overall flight performance, although it requires additional shielding and adds some complexity and weight to the booster. Also pay close attention to the engine startup sequence: the outer Raptor engines ignite first, followed by the center engines, ensuring a smooth, stable, and efficient ascent into space.

Watch the flawless launch sequence of SpaceX’s Starship, showcasing one of the most advanced engineering feats in modern rocketry. Notice the hot staging sequence, where the upper-stage Starship ignites its Raptor engines before separating from the Super Heavy booster. This method reduces gravity losses and improves overall flight performance, although it requires additional shielding and adds some complexity and weight to the booster. Also pay close attention to the engine startup sequence: the outer Raptor engines ignite first, followed by the center engines, ensuring a smooth, stable, and efficient ascent into space.

Adams

30,592 views • 23 days ago

Video analysis is one of Grok’s most underrated and useful features. Grok summarized SpaceX’s newly released 30-minute update video for me in minutes. Here's the complete summary: Musk opens by restating the company’s mission: building the systems and technologies needed to make life multiplanetary, understand the true nature of the universe, and extend the light of consciousness to the stars. The post caption frames past wins (reusable rockets + rebuilding the internet in space via Starlink) and positions the next challenges as multiplanetary life and fundamental understanding of the universe. Key points covered Past milestones (Dragon): 2012 — first privately developed spacecraft to dock with the ISS. 2020 — first commercial system to fly astronauts to the orbiting lab. Starship + Starlink V3 progress: First two flights of the current generation completed; work continues toward full and rapid reusability. First next-gen (V3) Starlink satellites successfully deployed. These are expected to deliver ~20× the capacity per Starship launch versus V2 satellites launched on Falcon. Explicit goal stated on-screen: “We are striving to be 51% of the internet.” Compute / SpaceXAI: Highlights the company’s computing clusters (described as among the most powerful in the world). The Memphis/Southaven site currently has 1.4 GW of nameplate power draw. Target for SpaceXAI is 10 GW by the end of next year, with a call for top engineers to focus on it. Related topics appear in the supporting slides: Grok, Colossus/MacroHard data centers, StarMind (orbital AI compute), and associated manufacturing (GigaSat factory). Lunar mass drivers are also referenced in the later vision section. The presentation mixes historical recap, current technical status on Starship/Starlink scaling, aggressive AI/compute build-out plans, and the long-term multiplanetary vision. It is primarily Musk speaking with on-screen text overlays and B-roll rather than a dense slide deck of financials.

Video analysis is one of Grok’s most underrated and useful features. Grok summarized SpaceX’s newly released 30-minute update video for me in minutes. Here's the complete summary: Musk opens by restating the company’s mission: building the systems and technologies needed to make life multiplanetary, understand the true nature of the universe, and extend the light of consciousness to the stars. The post caption frames past wins (reusable rockets + rebuilding the internet in space via Starlink) and positions the next challenges as multiplanetary life and fundamental understanding of the universe. Key points covered Past milestones (Dragon): 2012 — first privately developed spacecraft to dock with the ISS. 2020 — first commercial system to fly astronauts to the orbiting lab. Starship + Starlink V3 progress: First two flights of the current generation completed; work continues toward full and rapid reusability. First next-gen (V3) Starlink satellites successfully deployed. These are expected to deliver ~20× the capacity per Starship launch versus V2 satellites launched on Falcon. Explicit goal stated on-screen: “We are striving to be 51% of the internet.” Compute / SpaceXAI: Highlights the company’s computing clusters (described as among the most powerful in the world). The Memphis/Southaven site currently has 1.4 GW of nameplate power draw. Target for SpaceXAI is 10 GW by the end of next year, with a call for top engineers to focus on it. Related topics appear in the supporting slides: Grok, Colossus/MacroHard data centers, StarMind (orbital AI compute), and associated manufacturing (GigaSat factory). Lunar mass drivers are also referenced in the later vision section. The presentation mixes historical recap, current technical status on Starship/Starlink scaling, aggressive AI/compute build-out plans, and the long-term multiplanetary vision. It is primarily Musk speaking with on-screen text overlays and B-roll rather than a dense slide deck of financials.

DogeDesigner

42,306 views • 5 days ago

🚨 BREAKING: Starcloud just turned Starlink’s laser network into the backbone for orbital AI data centers. A company called Starcloud has ordered 50+ Starlink Mini Laser terminals to equip 25+ future satellites. Not ground stations. Not fiber cables. Direct laser-linked computing nodes in orbit plugged straight into SpaceX’s space-based optical mesh. This is the sci-fi future arriving now: Orbital cloud computing AI servers floating in space Powered by 24/7 sunlight Connected globally at light speed via Starlink lasers The insane part: Starcloud says its satellites will eventually handle full AI inference and training workloads directly in orbit. Data won’t always need to come back to Earth to be processed. The advantages are massive: • Unlimited solar energy (no grid limits) • Zero land or water constraints • Passive radiative cooling in vacuum • Instant global relay with zero terrestrial bottlenecks • Near real-time Earth observation analysis Their first major spacecraft (Starcloud-3) is designed for 200 kilowatts in orbit a full-on space-based data center node, not just a satellite. And here’s the bigger picture: SpaceX has filed plans for up to ONE MILLION orbital data centers of its own. Read that again. We may be watching the birth of the first true space-based computing infrastructure layer for civilization. The internet already left the ground. Now AI might be next. What happens when the cloud literally moves into space? Follow for more frontier physics and future technology.

🚨 BREAKING: Starcloud just turned Starlink’s laser network into the backbone for orbital AI data centers. A company called Starcloud has ordered 50+ Starlink Mini Laser terminals to equip 25+ future satellites. Not ground stations. Not fiber cables. Direct laser-linked computing nodes in orbit plugged straight into SpaceX’s space-based optical mesh. This is the sci-fi future arriving now: Orbital cloud computing AI servers floating in space Powered by 24/7 sunlight Connected globally at light speed via Starlink lasers The insane part: Starcloud says its satellites will eventually handle full AI inference and training workloads directly in orbit. Data won’t always need to come back to Earth to be processed. The advantages are massive: • Unlimited solar energy (no grid limits) • Zero land or water constraints • Passive radiative cooling in vacuum • Instant global relay with zero terrestrial bottlenecks • Near real-time Earth observation analysis Their first major spacecraft (Starcloud-3) is designed for 200 kilowatts in orbit a full-on space-based data center node, not just a satellite. And here’s the bigger picture: SpaceX has filed plans for up to ONE MILLION orbital data centers of its own. Read that again. We may be watching the birth of the first true space-based computing infrastructure layer for civilization. The internet already left the ground. Now AI might be next. What happens when the cloud literally moves into space? Follow for more frontier physics and future technology.

TheNewPhysics

152,463 views • 2 months ago

🚨 SPACEX IS ABOUT TO TEST A RADICALLY DIFFERENT KIND OF SPACECRAFT AND IT COULD UPEND THE ENTIRE ORBITAL MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY. On Tuesday, SpaceX plans to fly the first prototype of Starfall, a flat, disk-shaped reentry capsule designed to return up to 1,000 kilograms of cargo from orbit in a single flight. That’s roughly 30 times more payload capacity than current commercial return vehicles (like those from Varda Space Industries). It’s not a scaled-down Dragon it’s a completely different approach: no onboard deorbit engine, a wide flat disk geometry, and Starlink terminals mounted to maintain communication through the plasma blackout during reentry. Why this matters: • Current orbital manufacturing companies are limited to returning only dozens of kilograms per mission • Starfall’s design could make large-scale commercial production in space economically viable for the first time • SpaceX would be directly competing with companies (like Varda) that currently pay SpaceX to launch their capsules • Successfully testing Starlink through reentry plasma would be a major technical win with applications across SpaceX’s vehicles The deeper implication: SpaceX is quietly expanding its vertical integration. They already dominate launch. Now they’re moving into the return leg of the orbital manufacturing supply chain the part that has been the biggest bottleneck for companies trying to make products in microgravity and bring them back to Earth. If Starfall works at scale, it doesn’t just give SpaceX another revenue stream. It gives them significant control over the economics of an entire emerging industry. The disk shape and high-capacity design suggest they’re thinking about high-cadence, lower-cost returns rather than the traditional high-value, low-volume approach. This is classic SpaceX: take an existing problem (expensive, low-capacity return from orbit), apply first-principles thinking to the vehicle design, and try to make it dramatically cheaper and higher volume. How do you think this move into orbital return changes the competitive landscape for companies trying to build businesses in space manufacturing? Follow for more analysis on SpaceX’s expanding role across the space economy.

🚨 SPACEX IS ABOUT TO TEST A RADICALLY DIFFERENT KIND OF SPACECRAFT AND IT COULD UPEND THE ENTIRE ORBITAL MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY. On Tuesday, SpaceX plans to fly the first prototype of Starfall, a flat, disk-shaped reentry capsule designed to return up to 1,000 kilograms of cargo from orbit in a single flight. That’s roughly 30 times more payload capacity than current commercial return vehicles (like those from Varda Space Industries). It’s not a scaled-down Dragon it’s a completely different approach: no onboard deorbit engine, a wide flat disk geometry, and Starlink terminals mounted to maintain communication through the plasma blackout during reentry. Why this matters: • Current orbital manufacturing companies are limited to returning only dozens of kilograms per mission • Starfall’s design could make large-scale commercial production in space economically viable for the first time • SpaceX would be directly competing with companies (like Varda) that currently pay SpaceX to launch their capsules • Successfully testing Starlink through reentry plasma would be a major technical win with applications across SpaceX’s vehicles The deeper implication: SpaceX is quietly expanding its vertical integration. They already dominate launch. Now they’re moving into the return leg of the orbital manufacturing supply chain the part that has been the biggest bottleneck for companies trying to make products in microgravity and bring them back to Earth. If Starfall works at scale, it doesn’t just give SpaceX another revenue stream. It gives them significant control over the economics of an entire emerging industry. The disk shape and high-capacity design suggest they’re thinking about high-cadence, lower-cost returns rather than the traditional high-value, low-volume approach. This is classic SpaceX: take an existing problem (expensive, low-capacity return from orbit), apply first-principles thinking to the vehicle design, and try to make it dramatically cheaper and higher volume. How do you think this move into orbital return changes the competitive landscape for companies trying to build businesses in space manufacturing? Follow for more analysis on SpaceX’s expanding role across the space economy.

TheNewPhysics

445,776 views • 1 month ago

The next time you fly, India's space technology could help bring your aircraft safely to the ground. For the first time, a commercial jet in India successfully landed using GAGAN, ISRO's indigenous satellite navigation system, marking a major milestone for Indian aviation. Developed by ISRO and the Airports Authority of India, GAGAN guided an IndiGo Airbus A320 during a successful satellite based landing approach at Udaipur Airport. Instead of relying heavily on expensive ground based navigation equipment, GAGAN uses satellite technology to provide highly accurate landing guidance. This could help more airports offer precision landings, improve safety during poor weather, reduce flight diversions, and make India's aviation network more efficient and future ready. ISRO | Airports Authority of India #ISRO #GAGAN #IndianAviation [ISRO, GAGAN, IndiGo, Indian Aviation Technology]

The next time you fly, India's space technology could help bring your aircraft safely to the ground. For the first time, a commercial jet in India successfully landed using GAGAN, ISRO's indigenous satellite navigation system, marking a major milestone for Indian aviation. Developed by ISRO and the Airports Authority of India, GAGAN guided an IndiGo Airbus A320 during a successful satellite based landing approach at Udaipur Airport. Instead of relying heavily on expensive ground based navigation equipment, GAGAN uses satellite technology to provide highly accurate landing guidance. This could help more airports offer precision landings, improve safety during poor weather, reduce flight diversions, and make India's aviation network more efficient and future ready. ISRO | Airports Authority of India #ISRO #GAGAN #IndianAviation [ISRO, GAGAN, IndiGo, Indian Aviation Technology]

The Better India

24,419 views • 1 month ago

AlphaNet AI DEX is now live – first wave of whitelisted users will now be able to access trading. This launch marks a paradigm shift in the crypto trading space – advanced edge and superior alpha will no longer be inaccessible for retail traders. AlphaNet differentiates from the pack from shifting from the main perp DEX talking points to one purely focused on alpha generation value for users. Access the platform here: This launch includes: - AI Algo Execution – Through a proprietary deep learning-based execution engine, optimize for minimal slippage and trading costs, often achieving negative slippage. Automate the order execution process and let our system do the heavy lifting. - Quantative ML Insight Models – Proprietary models that will help you determine and predict trend, market state, market efficiency and optimal entry and exit points ideal for use in leveraged scalping. Freakishly accurate models that adds unprecedented edge to your own edge and trading style. - Click-to-Deploy Quantitative AI Strategies – Choose from an arsenal of quantitative AI strategies engineered for superior risk-adjusted return from a variety of strategy types, assets and market profiles. Deploy and monitor in real-time, or adjust, mix and create your own “strategy of strategies”. Whether you like market neutral, mean reversion or fat-tail heavy strategies, we got you covered and will give you complete freedom of control. In the next week or two, expect 1) more announcements 2) video tutorials 3) new models and strategies 4) more growth & adoption-related news! The future of trading is finally here. Happy new year and see you in 2026! $PHB #AITrading

AlphaNet AI DEX is now live – first wave of whitelisted users will now be able to access trading. This launch marks a paradigm shift in the crypto trading space – advanced edge and superior alpha will no longer be inaccessible for retail traders. AlphaNet differentiates from the pack from shifting from the main perp DEX talking points to one purely focused on alpha generation value for users. Access the platform here: This launch includes: - AI Algo Execution – Through a proprietary deep learning-based execution engine, optimize for minimal slippage and trading costs, often achieving negative slippage. Automate the order execution process and let our system do the heavy lifting. - Quantative ML Insight Models – Proprietary models that will help you determine and predict trend, market state, market efficiency and optimal entry and exit points ideal for use in leveraged scalping. Freakishly accurate models that adds unprecedented edge to your own edge and trading style. - Click-to-Deploy Quantitative AI Strategies – Choose from an arsenal of quantitative AI strategies engineered for superior risk-adjusted return from a variety of strategy types, assets and market profiles. Deploy and monitor in real-time, or adjust, mix and create your own “strategy of strategies”. Whether you like market neutral, mean reversion or fat-tail heavy strategies, we got you covered and will give you complete freedom of control. In the next week or two, expect 1) more announcements 2) video tutorials 3) new models and strategies 4) more growth & adoption-related news! The future of trading is finally here. Happy new year and see you in 2026! $PHB #AITrading

Phoenix AI Labs

223,431 views • 7 months ago

NASA has just launched a new website for its Moon Base missions, which aims to build a permanent $20 billion U.S. base on the Moon. SpaceX's Starship rocket will play a big role in these missions. "The Moon Base is a home away from Earth for Artemis astronauts who will live and work at humanity’s first lunar outpost. NASA is leading global teams of innovators across international space agencies, industry, and academia to build the Moon Base and establish an enduring human presence near the lunar South Pole for the benefit of all. Phase One (Now–2029): Experiment and Learn NASA will begin with a rapid series of robotic missions to scout the lunar South Pole region, test technologies, and prepare for surface operations ahead of future astronaut missions.: • A major increase in lunar activity, with up to 25 missions, including 21 landings. • Crewed and autonomous rovers for mobility demonstrations and surface preparation, along with four drones known as MoonFall and communications relay and observation satellites. • Early demonstrations of power, navigation, communications, and nuclear radioisotope heater unit technologies designed to endure the long lunar night. • Scientific payload opportunities integrated across landers and rovers. • The first tangible footprint of Moon Base effort, with four tons of payload delivered to test what works on the lunar surface. Phase Two (2029–2032): Early Habitation By 2029, NASA will transition to assembling semi-permanent infrastructure and initiating early habitation and logistics operations: • Deployment of expanded solar power systems and initial nuclear surface power capabilities, potentially including fission reactors and radioisotope power systems. • Upgraded rovers, potential advanced MoonFall drones, and early habitation elements. • Enhanced surface-to-orbit communications networks to provide reliable connectivity across the lunar South Pole region. • Delivery of up to 60 tons of cargo through as many as 24 landings using low-, medium-, and heavy-class cargo landers. Phase Three (2032 and Beyond): Sustained Human Presence This phase will scale operations to achieve a true enduring presence, with routine crew rotations and continuous surface activity. This is when living and working on the Moon becomes a reality: • Semi-permanent habitation modules with spacious interior for crew living and operations. • Operational fission surface power systems capable of delivering steady, reliable energy through the long lunar nights, leveraging in situ resource manufacturing. • Advanced logistics networks supported by crewed and autonomous rovers to keep the base supplied and functioning year-round. • Delivery of up to 38 tons of cargo annually to sustain habitats, power systems, logistics operations, and major science outposts, enabled by low-cost reusable heavy-lift capabilities." Moon base website:

NASA has just launched a new website for its Moon Base missions, which aims to build a permanent $20 billion U.S. base on the Moon. SpaceX's Starship rocket will play a big role in these missions. "The Moon Base is a home away from Earth for Artemis astronauts who will live and work at humanity’s first lunar outpost. NASA is leading global teams of innovators across international space agencies, industry, and academia to build the Moon Base and establish an enduring human presence near the lunar South Pole for the benefit of all. Phase One (Now–2029): Experiment and Learn NASA will begin with a rapid series of robotic missions to scout the lunar South Pole region, test technologies, and prepare for surface operations ahead of future astronaut missions.: • A major increase in lunar activity, with up to 25 missions, including 21 landings. • Crewed and autonomous rovers for mobility demonstrations and surface preparation, along with four drones known as MoonFall and communications relay and observation satellites. • Early demonstrations of power, navigation, communications, and nuclear radioisotope heater unit technologies designed to endure the long lunar night. • Scientific payload opportunities integrated across landers and rovers. • The first tangible footprint of Moon Base effort, with four tons of payload delivered to test what works on the lunar surface. Phase Two (2029–2032): Early Habitation By 2029, NASA will transition to assembling semi-permanent infrastructure and initiating early habitation and logistics operations: • Deployment of expanded solar power systems and initial nuclear surface power capabilities, potentially including fission reactors and radioisotope power systems. • Upgraded rovers, potential advanced MoonFall drones, and early habitation elements. • Enhanced surface-to-orbit communications networks to provide reliable connectivity across the lunar South Pole region. • Delivery of up to 60 tons of cargo through as many as 24 landings using low-, medium-, and heavy-class cargo landers. Phase Three (2032 and Beyond): Sustained Human Presence This phase will scale operations to achieve a true enduring presence, with routine crew rotations and continuous surface activity. This is when living and working on the Moon becomes a reality: • Semi-permanent habitation modules with spacious interior for crew living and operations. • Operational fission surface power systems capable of delivering steady, reliable energy through the long lunar nights, leveraging in situ resource manufacturing. • Advanced logistics networks supported by crewed and autonomous rovers to keep the base supplied and functioning year-round. • Delivery of up to 38 tons of cargo annually to sustain habitats, power systems, logistics operations, and major science outposts, enabled by low-cost reusable heavy-lift capabilities." Moon base website:

Sawyer Merritt

955,317 views • 2 months ago

🚨12 HOUR NEWS RECAP 1.⁠ Trump returned to the White House, still full of energy, despite a marathon Middle East peace tour where he saw the last Israeli hostages released from Gaza and then flew to Egypt for the Sharm El-Sheikh Peace Summit with world leaders. 2.⁠ Screams of joy filled the air as Israeli hostages freed from Gaza after 2 years of captivity were finally reunited with their families. World leaders were united in their praise for Trump in bringing an end to the war. 3.⁠ Leaders from at least 27 countries gathered in Egypt to witness the signing of the historic peace agreement that brought to an end the Gaza war. Trump announced the Trump Declaration for Enduring Peace and Prosperity, declaring the war officially over and a new chapter of stability beginning. 4.⁠ Hamas accused Israel of violating the ceasefire agreement after airstrikes killed several people in Gaza, and the fatal shooting of 5 Palestinians who crossed a ceasefire line and approached Israeli forces. 5.⁠ Trump is due to posthumously award Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House later today. The ceremony falls on what would have been Charlie’s 32nd birthday. His widow, Erika, will attend with family and conservative leaders. 6.⁠ SpaceX’s latest Starship test flight completed one of its main objectives - opening its side payload door and releasing several dummy satellites while traveling at near-orbital speed. The booster executed its final landing maneuvers smoothly splashing down in the Indian Ocean, marking the second time a Version 2 Starship has completed a full flight profile. 7.⁠ Following Trump’s historic peace deal in Gaza, Time put him on its front cover using a picture he slammed as “the worst of all time. I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a super bad picture and deserves to be called out.” 8.⁠ Torrential rains slammed central and Gulf Coast Mexico, killing at least 64 people and leaving 65 missing. Over 100,000 homes were flooded, power went out across 5 states, and entire roads and bridges were literally washed away. 9.⁠ A powerful nor’easter, the type of massive winter storm known for heavy coastal flooding and fierce winds, tore up the East Coast, hammering Long Beach with waves up to 16 feet and gusts reaching 45 mph. Reporters on scene described relentless surf and flooding from the Carolinas to New York. 10.⁠ Three police officers are dead and 13 others injured after a booby-trapped farmhouse exploded during an eviction raid in Castel D’Azzano, Italy. Police say 3 siblings refused to leave - and instead turned their home into a death trap, detonating gas cylinders as officers entered.

Mario Nawfal

88,730 views • 10 months ago

SERAPH: A new round of major events in Diablo is about to begin! 🚀 Each new event is a new opportunity. Let's first review the achievements SERAPH has made before. 🏆 Seraph Achievements: Genesis NFT (Weapons) 0.06e ==》0.628e 💎 SERAPH Priority Pass Freemint ==》3.2e 🚀 In traditional GameFi, the issue of the death spiral of the initial NFT launch is often encountered. However, SERAPH achieved a tenfold floor price increase with a public sale of 0.06e and has stably maintained this position. This highlights the commendable tokenomics of the project. 📈 Additionally, SERAPH's gameplay is quite impressive. The Twitter community shows a high level of engagement, with many players sharing their gaming experiences. During the third testing phase, players were not just playing SERAPH for profit but were immersed in the game, experiencing the storyline and the thrill of gameplay. 🎮🔥 New Major Event: After the War of Light, the life fortress of Seraficia faces energy depletion. As chaos spreads, the Archangel Seraf crafted the World Ring from the souls of all life, a powerful shield against chaotic attacks. 🌌🛡️ To protect the hard-won peace, fallen heroes are bestowed with new souls, transcending the limits of time and space. Barbarians, Valkyries, Witches, and Necromancers reassemble on the lands of Seraficia. Reborn SOULs, the legends of heroes. 🌟 In the shimmering rune light, we summon the most outstanding legion of heroes to face this gradually collapsing world. ⚔️ >>Hero Series NFT The newly launched Hero Series PFP NFT primarily features human heroes such as Barbarians, Valkyries, Witches, and Necromancers. It also includes angels, demons, and other otherworldly races, showcasing numerous characters developed in the game so far. 🎭 Specific Acquisition Methods: Hero Series NFTs will be sold through a limited whitelist and public sale lottery. Whitelist distribution channels include: 【Veteran Players Exclusive】- Ongoing support from our veteran players; 【DC Exclusive】- New players participating in this DC event; 【Community Collaboration】- Communities collaborating with Seraph. 【Veteran Players Exclusive】 Veteran players will have their whitelist distribution rules, which can be followed in later project updates. 【DC Exclusive】 New players can acquire whitelist status by participating in various activities in DC, accumulating Soul shards through DC events. Ways to earn them include: 1⃣️ Participate in team-organized activities and games. 2⃣️ Create unique and high-quality content, such as videos, posts, art, to earn Soul shards. 3⃣️ During flash community events/tasks, active community members may discover additional Soul shards. 4⃣️ Interact with the Engage bot in the 💠│engage channel. 5⃣️ Warriors making genuine contributions to the community may receive random Soul shard rewards. 【Community Collaboration】 Members of gaming communities can participate in special activities in their own communities to obtain whitelist spots. T1 labs will also have a series of events to secure whitelist spots. 🤝 SERAPH Elite Test Server Note: The test server does not involve digital assets, and all data will be uniformly deleted after the test. 🧪 To welcome the new content, the game's official release includes a small-scale test. This test is mainly for early experience and bug testing, providing an opportunity to explore new features. Players are encouraged to actively participate and explore to get a glimpse of what's to come. 🌐 Test Start Time: February 5, 2024, 11:00 (UTC+8) 📅 Test Method: Limited invitation using activation codes 💌 Invitation Targets: Top-ranking users from the previous three game tests; Active users involved in SERAPH community building. 🎉 Test Content: Significant structural and numerical optimization of the economic system; All-new concepts for NFT treasures; Comprehensive adjustments to skill balance and numerous detailed optimizations and bug fixes, etc. This test is open for PC/IOS/Android, allowing testing across multiple platforms simultaneously. 🕹️📱💻 Research Analyst: 比特狸狸

SERAPH: A new round of major events in Diablo is about to begin! 🚀 Each new event is a new opportunity. Let's first review the achievements SERAPH has made before. 🏆 Seraph Achievements: Genesis NFT (Weapons) 0.06e ==》0.628e 💎 SERAPH Priority Pass Freemint ==》3.2e 🚀 In traditional GameFi, the issue of the death spiral of the initial NFT launch is often encountered. However, SERAPH achieved a tenfold floor price increase with a public sale of 0.06e and has stably maintained this position. This highlights the commendable tokenomics of the project. 📈 Additionally, SERAPH's gameplay is quite impressive. The Twitter community shows a high level of engagement, with many players sharing their gaming experiences. During the third testing phase, players were not just playing SERAPH for profit but were immersed in the game, experiencing the storyline and the thrill of gameplay. 🎮🔥 New Major Event: After the War of Light, the life fortress of Seraficia faces energy depletion. As chaos spreads, the Archangel Seraf crafted the World Ring from the souls of all life, a powerful shield against chaotic attacks. 🌌🛡️ To protect the hard-won peace, fallen heroes are bestowed with new souls, transcending the limits of time and space. Barbarians, Valkyries, Witches, and Necromancers reassemble on the lands of Seraficia. Reborn SOULs, the legends of heroes. 🌟 In the shimmering rune light, we summon the most outstanding legion of heroes to face this gradually collapsing world. ⚔️ >>Hero Series NFT The newly launched Hero Series PFP NFT primarily features human heroes such as Barbarians, Valkyries, Witches, and Necromancers. It also includes angels, demons, and other otherworldly races, showcasing numerous characters developed in the game so far. 🎭 Specific Acquisition Methods: Hero Series NFTs will be sold through a limited whitelist and public sale lottery. Whitelist distribution channels include: 【Veteran Players Exclusive】- Ongoing support from our veteran players; 【DC Exclusive】- New players participating in this DC event; 【Community Collaboration】- Communities collaborating with Seraph. 【Veteran Players Exclusive】 Veteran players will have their whitelist distribution rules, which can be followed in later project updates. 【DC Exclusive】 New players can acquire whitelist status by participating in various activities in DC, accumulating Soul shards through DC events. Ways to earn them include: 1⃣️ Participate in team-organized activities and games. 2⃣️ Create unique and high-quality content, such as videos, posts, art, to earn Soul shards. 3⃣️ During flash community events/tasks, active community members may discover additional Soul shards. 4⃣️ Interact with the Engage bot in the 💠│engage channel. 5⃣️ Warriors making genuine contributions to the community may receive random Soul shard rewards. 【Community Collaboration】 Members of gaming communities can participate in special activities in their own communities to obtain whitelist spots. T1 labs will also have a series of events to secure whitelist spots. 🤝 SERAPH Elite Test Server Note: The test server does not involve digital assets, and all data will be uniformly deleted after the test. 🧪 To welcome the new content, the game's official release includes a small-scale test. This test is mainly for early experience and bug testing, providing an opportunity to explore new features. Players are encouraged to actively participate and explore to get a glimpse of what's to come. 🌐 Test Start Time: February 5, 2024, 11:00 (UTC+8) 📅 Test Method: Limited invitation using activation codes 💌 Invitation Targets: Top-ranking users from the previous three game tests; Active users involved in SERAPH community building. 🎉 Test Content: Significant structural and numerical optimization of the economic system; All-new concepts for NFT treasures; Comprehensive adjustments to skill balance and numerous detailed optimizations and bug fixes, etc. This test is open for PC/IOS/Android, allowing testing across multiple platforms simultaneously. 🕹️📱💻 Research Analyst: 比特狸狸

T1 Labs

12,545 views • 2 years ago

The Chinese are flying 4 sixth-generation prototypes, but what does that mean? While the West keeps debating wars that seem never-ending, huh, China is flying low – or rather, high! – improving their 6th generation fighter prototypes, like the J-36/J-50, with total focus on advanced integration. This gives a huge strategic advantage, with emphasis on long-range missiles and multiple guidance to dominate global scenarios. China already has about 4 6th generation prototypes and plans to reach 8, selecting the most adapted one. All this under the General Concept: Indestructible Flying Brain: 6th generation fighters go way beyond just a slightly improved stealth; they are central platforms that command a global war web via AI, drones, and varied weapons, making previous fighters obsolete in connectivity and limiting them to very local operations. This omnipresence redefines air superiority, with the fighter surviving as a resilient node in the first hours of conflicts and being able to operate with speed. Kill Web: The Global War Web: The fighter acts as the central node of a real-time network, connecting submarines, satellites, ships, drones, and troops worldwide. It allows omnipresence, receiving data from a destroyer thousands of km away and attacking as if it were right nearby, with AI assisting the pilot in analysis and target acquisition. That's why the Chinese focus on missiles with ranges of thousands of km, with multiple guidance, turning the 6th generation pilot into a tactical manager very different from today's. Being a 6th generation fighter pilot is going to demand a lot. Command of Drone Swarms (CCA/Loyal Wingman) The fighter controls 6-20 drones simultaneously for reconnaissance, jamming, or suicide attacks. It transforms the pilot (or AI) into a "maestro" of a robotic orchestra, or quarterback of Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCAs), which carry extra weapons, expanding offensive power without exposing the main fighter. Like, a controlled symphony of destruction! Superior Multi-Spectral Stealth (Stealth++) Not limited to radar, it covers infrared, acoustic, visual, and electromagnetic. It uses advanced materials, tailless designs, and minimal thermal signature to penetrate dense A2/AD defenses, making it extremely hard to detect and essential for operations in contested environments. Extreme Range, Autonomy, and New Generation Weapons Combat radius of 1,800-2,500 km without refueling, with sustained supercruise (Mach 1.5-2.0) without afterburner, thanks to adaptive cycle engines and huge internal tanks. There's talk of including lasers, but so far, what's really there are internal hypersonic missiles and 2-3x greater armament capacity than the F-35, all while maintaining total stealth. Artificial Intelligence, Integrated Sensors, Resilience, and Open Architecture AI as co-pilot or main, processing data in real time and making tactical decisions to reduce human load; optionally manned mode: piloted, remote, or autonomous flight; virtual cockpit via helmet visor. Multifunctional sensors combine radar, electronic warfare, communications, and non-kinetic effects, with total data fusion transforming the fighter into a flying data center. Network resistant to jamming and GPS loss via quantum-resistant communications, mesh networks, and inertial/computer vision navigation. Modular architecture allows quick upgrades (90% by software), avoiding high costs like in the F-35; in "Decision Centric Warfare," AI decides in milliseconds, with the human as an optional bottleneck, including cyber warfare and active defense. In another article, I'll talk about what I think of this in terms of costs and demand and if such an investment is really worth it.

The Chinese are flying 4 sixth-generation prototypes, but what does that mean? While the West keeps debating wars that seem never-ending, huh, China is flying low – or rather, high! – improving their 6th generation fighter prototypes, like the J-36/J-50, with total focus on advanced integration. This gives a huge strategic advantage, with emphasis on long-range missiles and multiple guidance to dominate global scenarios. China already has about 4 6th generation prototypes and plans to reach 8, selecting the most adapted one. All this under the General Concept: Indestructible Flying Brain: 6th generation fighters go way beyond just a slightly improved stealth; they are central platforms that command a global war web via AI, drones, and varied weapons, making previous fighters obsolete in connectivity and limiting them to very local operations. This omnipresence redefines air superiority, with the fighter surviving as a resilient node in the first hours of conflicts and being able to operate with speed. Kill Web: The Global War Web: The fighter acts as the central node of a real-time network, connecting submarines, satellites, ships, drones, and troops worldwide. It allows omnipresence, receiving data from a destroyer thousands of km away and attacking as if it were right nearby, with AI assisting the pilot in analysis and target acquisition. That's why the Chinese focus on missiles with ranges of thousands of km, with multiple guidance, turning the 6th generation pilot into a tactical manager very different from today's. Being a 6th generation fighter pilot is going to demand a lot. Command of Drone Swarms (CCA/Loyal Wingman) The fighter controls 6-20 drones simultaneously for reconnaissance, jamming, or suicide attacks. It transforms the pilot (or AI) into a "maestro" of a robotic orchestra, or quarterback of Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCAs), which carry extra weapons, expanding offensive power without exposing the main fighter. Like, a controlled symphony of destruction! Superior Multi-Spectral Stealth (Stealth++) Not limited to radar, it covers infrared, acoustic, visual, and electromagnetic. It uses advanced materials, tailless designs, and minimal thermal signature to penetrate dense A2/AD defenses, making it extremely hard to detect and essential for operations in contested environments. Extreme Range, Autonomy, and New Generation Weapons Combat radius of 1,800-2,500 km without refueling, with sustained supercruise (Mach 1.5-2.0) without afterburner, thanks to adaptive cycle engines and huge internal tanks. There's talk of including lasers, but so far, what's really there are internal hypersonic missiles and 2-3x greater armament capacity than the F-35, all while maintaining total stealth. Artificial Intelligence, Integrated Sensors, Resilience, and Open Architecture AI as co-pilot or main, processing data in real time and making tactical decisions to reduce human load; optionally manned mode: piloted, remote, or autonomous flight; virtual cockpit via helmet visor. Multifunctional sensors combine radar, electronic warfare, communications, and non-kinetic effects, with total data fusion transforming the fighter into a flying data center. Network resistant to jamming and GPS loss via quantum-resistant communications, mesh networks, and inertial/computer vision navigation. Modular architecture allows quick upgrades (90% by software), avoiding high costs like in the F-35; in "Decision Centric Warfare," AI decides in milliseconds, with the human as an optional bottleneck, including cyber warfare and active defense. In another article, I'll talk about what I think of this in terms of costs and demand and if such an investment is really worth it.

Patricia Marins

60,403 views • 8 months ago

AI just hit a wall that no amount of money can move. The planet itself. There is not enough power, water, or land on Earth to build the data centers the AI race now demands. So the most valuable bet in artificial intelligence is no longer a chip company or a model. It is a rocket company. The plan is to leave. In January, SpaceX filed with the FCC to launch up to 1 million solar-powered data center satellites into orbit. In February it bought xAI, the maker of Grok, folding an entire frontier AI lab into a rocket company in the largest corporate merger ever recorded. On June 8 it unveiled the AI1, a compute satellite with a 70-meter wingspan, wider than a Boeing 747, powered by the sun, cooled by the vacuum of space, and wired to the ground through Starlink. Four days later it went public in the largest IPO in history, near 1.77 trillion dollars, touched 2.1 trillion on its first day, raised close to 86 billion, and made one man the first trillionaire alive. Now read the direction of that merger, because it is the whole story. A rocket company bought the AI lab. Not the reverse. For three years everyone assumed the constraint on AI was chips, or data, or talent. It is none of them anymore. It is energy and heat and dirt. The head of Anthropic said his company grew faster than the exponential, 80 times in a single year, and that is exactly why it ran out of compute. The answer was not to build more data centers in Virginia. It was to leave the atmosphere, where the sun never sets and a solar panel does five times the work. The moat in artificial intelligence is no longer the model. It is the launch. And the first rent is already being paid. A rival lab, Anthropic, is reported to be sending roughly 1.25 billion dollars a month to Musk for compute. Google near 920 million. If intelligence moves to orbit, the company that owns the only affordable road there becomes the landlord of the next layer of the internet, the way one bookstore became the landlord of the cloud. The merger is the proof of concept. The IPO is the war chest. Those monthly checks are the lease. Here is the part the price tag does not want you to read. Close to a trillion dollars of that valuation rests on orbital data centers that do not yet exist, and on a chip factory, Terafab, that SpaceX's own public filing calls a general framework with no binding deal, one that may not achieve commercial viability. Musk said it on camera. This is not a promise. The largest IPO ever written is priced on a future the filing itself cannot verify. The other side is just as real. Compute in orbit costs about four times what it costs on the ground today, and the curve may not cross for fifteen years. The machines that print the chips are backordered for years. Shedding heat in a vacuum at this scale has never been done. Musk's timelines have a long history of meaning later. And Bezos is racing the same orbit with a constellation of 51,600 satellites of his own. But strip it all away and the trade underneath is one sentence. Earth has run out of room for intelligence, and whoever owns the road off the planet owns whatever gets built next. Call it the most expensive science fiction ever sold, or the first time the map of the internet pointed up.

AI just hit a wall that no amount of money can move. The planet itself. There is not enough power, water, or land on Earth to build the data centers the AI race now demands. So the most valuable bet in artificial intelligence is no longer a chip company or a model. It is a rocket company. The plan is to leave. In January, SpaceX filed with the FCC to launch up to 1 million solar-powered data center satellites into orbit. In February it bought xAI, the maker of Grok, folding an entire frontier AI lab into a rocket company in the largest corporate merger ever recorded. On June 8 it unveiled the AI1, a compute satellite with a 70-meter wingspan, wider than a Boeing 747, powered by the sun, cooled by the vacuum of space, and wired to the ground through Starlink. Four days later it went public in the largest IPO in history, near 1.77 trillion dollars, touched 2.1 trillion on its first day, raised close to 86 billion, and made one man the first trillionaire alive. Now read the direction of that merger, because it is the whole story. A rocket company bought the AI lab. Not the reverse. For three years everyone assumed the constraint on AI was chips, or data, or talent. It is none of them anymore. It is energy and heat and dirt. The head of Anthropic said his company grew faster than the exponential, 80 times in a single year, and that is exactly why it ran out of compute. The answer was not to build more data centers in Virginia. It was to leave the atmosphere, where the sun never sets and a solar panel does five times the work. The moat in artificial intelligence is no longer the model. It is the launch. And the first rent is already being paid. A rival lab, Anthropic, is reported to be sending roughly 1.25 billion dollars a month to Musk for compute. Google near 920 million. If intelligence moves to orbit, the company that owns the only affordable road there becomes the landlord of the next layer of the internet, the way one bookstore became the landlord of the cloud. The merger is the proof of concept. The IPO is the war chest. Those monthly checks are the lease. Here is the part the price tag does not want you to read. Close to a trillion dollars of that valuation rests on orbital data centers that do not yet exist, and on a chip factory, Terafab, that SpaceX's own public filing calls a general framework with no binding deal, one that may not achieve commercial viability. Musk said it on camera. This is not a promise. The largest IPO ever written is priced on a future the filing itself cannot verify. The other side is just as real. Compute in orbit costs about four times what it costs on the ground today, and the curve may not cross for fifteen years. The machines that print the chips are backordered for years. Shedding heat in a vacuum at this scale has never been done. Musk's timelines have a long history of meaning later. And Bezos is racing the same orbit with a constellation of 51,600 satellites of his own. But strip it all away and the trade underneath is one sentence. Earth has run out of room for intelligence, and whoever owns the road off the planet owns whatever gets built next. Call it the most expensive science fiction ever sold, or the first time the map of the internet pointed up.

Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡

54,394 views • 1 month ago