Green Rocket Glow Meets Moonrise in Desert Launch
For Saint Patrick’s Day, one of my favorite rocket launch photos… Black Rock Desert, NV The green glow comes from barium chloride mixed into the AP propellant. I planned the camera location in advance to bisect the moonrise, and then my rocket did something very unusual. https://t.co/te3bI9iUk0
Marvell Partners with Mojo for Trillion‑bit Optical AI Interconnects
Marvell at the Mojo By using a grid of micro-LEDs instead of lasers, Mojo delivers 100x more bandwidth/channel + lower energy/bit. Mojo’s fiber has thousands of physically discrete channels for massively multiplexed bandwidth + redundancy for reliability in orbital data centers. Today,...
AlphaGo's Victory Ignited China's AI Ambitions
The shot heard round the Rim 🇨🇳 10 years ago, Google’s AlphaGo, an AI built with RL, beat a human champion and shocked China into action: “In China, Go wasn’t just a game. It represented a wider nexus of history, emotion,...
SpaceX’s Simple Plan: Moon, Mars, Robots, Multiplanetary Future
Explain like I'm 5. The SpaceX roadmap, from their children's book: • Moon, Mars, Beyond ✔️ • Making Life Multiplanetary 🔜 Mars ✔️ • Robots working it ✔️
China Dominates LEO GPS, 41 Satellites vs Lone Western Provider
🇨🇳🛰 The competitor to watch is China, with 75 startups raising $7B. For example, China’s progress in resilient GPS in LEO is far ahead of the West. China already has 41 PNT sats in LEO, and Xona is sole provider in...
New CFS Book Showcases Giant SPARC Fusion Magnets
The Book of CFS just arrived The cover shows a top down slice of the SPARC fusion plant, with a ring of 18 D-shaped toroidal magnets, each strong enough to levitate an aircraft carrier. Embedded in the center is a slice...
SpaceX's 20th Crew Flight Delivers Valentine's to ISS
🚀❣️ Cupid's Crew is delivering the Valentines to the ISS. Dragon Freedom is en route for a Feb 14 arrival with NASA's Crew-12 astronauts. This is SpaceX's 20th flight of humans to orbit. https://t.co/MpufCmPn1J
