Inside SpaceX's habit for stellar names, like this California drone ship

SpaceX is known for cosmic branding, including in California. Here's a look behind the names of some of its most famous rockets, vehicles and more.
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Small forest fragments can protect more birds when the surrounding landscape is more helpful

Larger areas contain more species. This is one of the most ironclad laws of ecology, which explains why large natural areas usually receive higher priority in conservation strategies. In fragmented ...

13,000 tonnes of space junk clutters Earth orbit. Here’s how it could be cleaned up

Properly addressing the problem of space requires work across three fronts: technology, policy and philosophy.

SpaceX's 'Starmind' AI constellation continues cosmic naming tradition

SpaceX's cosmic branding for anything from its Falcon 9 rockets to its Starlink satellites has become core to its identity.

SpaceX Has Three AI Customers Paying $27.8 Billion a Year. How Big Can This Revenue Stream Get?

First, Anthropic signed a deal to access more than 300 MW of compute capacity and more than 220,000 Nvidia GPUs at SpaceX's ...

Think tank games out how to respond to disaster scenarios in space warfare

The US military begins tracking a mysterious spacecraft maneuvering near one of the Space Force’s missile-warning satellites ...
ZME Science

NASA Rover Finds Most Complex Organic Chemistry Ever Detected on Mars. But Can It Reveal Whether Life Ever Existed There?

The Perseverance rover on Mars inspects a rock coined Cheyava Falls with the SHERLOC instrument on its robotic arm. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech NASA’s Perseverance rover has reported the most robust ...

New insight into how cells move copper out of the mitochondrial matrix could guide novel treatments

Copper is essential for life. Our cells need the metal to make energy and stay healthy, but if it is in the wrong place or present in excess, copper can be deadly. Texas A&M AgriLife Research ...
SpaceNews

The MEO durability crisis: why LEO hardware will fail the new orbital economy

To some, space is the final frontier. But the reality is that once you leave Earth’s atmosphere, you’re not entering a single, uniform void. There are several frontiers up there — distinct orbital ...
CNBC

Upstart chipmakers keep challenging Nvidia. This time it's Microsoft-backed D-Matrix

D-Matrix says its chips can run inference workloads 10 times faster and using five times less energy than a standalone graphics processing unit from Nvidia. Like Cerebras, D-Matrix is trying to prove ...
Futurism

Elon Musk’s Ex Says He Bragged About 10,000 Lasers in Orbit That Are “Not a Piece They’ll See on the Chess Board”

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Elon Musk’s Ex Ashley St. Clair Claims He Used ‘Space Technology’ in 2024 Election

Elon Musk’s ex Ashley St. Clair claimed in a recent video that he used his “space technology” during the 2024 election. “In October, Elon tells me that he is ready to release, in his words, ‘an ...