tristan

i love rockets :)
aspiring aerospace engineer - math undergrad
starship believer - $SPCX - old school spitter

[tristan @agntkrbl]

wtf

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Access to all other Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

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[tristan @agntkrbl]

@ContraPoints and they're gonna achieve all these goals no problem

[tristan @agntkrbl]

$SPCX
IT'S SHOWTIME

[tristan @agntkrbl]

I consider SpaceX to have been through multiple ~5 year long "phases", todays marks the beginning of a new one along with Starship V3, cape launches, Starlink v3, AI sats and Artemis

[Nasdaq @Nasdaq]

Mission: @SpaceX.
Objective: Make life multiplanetary.
Exchange: @NasdaqExchange.
Status: Initial Public Offering. $SPCX

[tristan @agntkrbl]

that has to be on purpose lol, literally 10 mins after the IPO

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Deployment of 29 @Starlink satellites confirmed

[tristan @agntkrbl]

@Nasdaq @SpaceX GUYS TELL THE AUDIO ENGINEER TO WAKE UP

[tristan @agntkrbl]

I was here

[tristan @agntkrbl]

The last launch before it happens

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Watch Falcon 9 launch 29 @Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida https://t.co/YVgxRrZL2H

[Robin @xdNiBoR]

CNBC interview with Gwynne Shotwell about the IPO, Starship, Starlink and AI satellites.

[tristan @agntkrbl]

@Truthful_ast yeah it's embarassing
oh and of course it's fucking thales of course it's them

[tristan @agntkrbl]

i love Gwynne so much, I actually respect her a lot

[Niall Anderson @INiallAnderson]

Gwynne Shotwell is anticipating SpaceX's 13th Starship Flight could happen some time in July with monthly flights thereafter with Flight 14 hopefully being their first attempt at full orbit! 🔥
📸: @CNBC

[Niall Anderson @INiallAnderson]

Gwynne Shotwell is anticipating SpaceX's 13th Starship Flight could happen some time in July with monthly flights thereafter with Flight 14 hopefully being their first attempt at full orbit! 🔥
📸: @CNBC

[tristan @agntkrbl]

just came across THE most retarded bluesky post ever
LIKE WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY ON OVER THERE

[NoLifeJordan 🇨🇦🌌🚀 @NoLifeJordan69]

The last twelve American Prime Ministers

[tristan @agntkrbl]

welcome to europe, our rockets are extremely meh and if we ever do announce something slightly cool it's actually AI generated

[Thales Alenia Space @Thales_Alenia_S]

A new chapter in European space logistic is approaching.

The countdown for the introduction of our upcoming autonomous Low Earth Orbit cargo vehicle has begun.
Stay tuned.

#spaceforlife

@thalesgroup @Leonardo_IT @esa
@ASI_spazio

[tristan @agntkrbl]

THEY'RE MAKING TUTORIALS ON HOW TO HATE ELON NOW 😂😂😂
THEY'RE SO OUT OF IDEAS LMAO, THE GUY JUST KEEPS ON WINNING WHICH DOESN'T FIT THEIR NARRATIVE AND THIS IS HOW THEY COPE?? 😂

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Opinion: SpaceX IPO makes Elon Musk the first trillionaire. Here’s how to properly hate him https://t.co/qAQVdquwCP

[tristan @agntkrbl]

The most boomer boomer that has ever boomered

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

The SEC must delay the SpaceX IPO until investors are protected.

[Phil Trubey @PTrubey]

Oh my, my dunk of JerryRigs is going viral. Well, let's use this as a teaching moment.

First, realize when people say "data centers in space" they aren't talking about lofting up giant Costco sized buildings.

SpaceX and Starcloud are proposing satellites that each have the compute capacity of about one AI rack, or what the guy is pushing in the picture below.

These individual sats won't be connected together in space to run large training jobs, they'll only be used for inference - answering people's questions, running agentic tasks, etc.

So each satellite has relatively tractable power and cooling requirements. There will be a couple of largish solar panels attached to give it 24x7 cheap power (remember that you get like 5x more solar energy per panel in space than on Earth). And a smaller radiator that will radiate away waste heat into the vastness of space.

Both the power and cooling technologies are simple, well tested and cost nothing to operate, unlike power and cooling on earth.

In particular, cooling on earth requires extra power to run powerful water pumps to move fluid all over the place and then to dump the heat into a relatively hot atmosphere.

Yes, space based cooling can only reject heat via radiative cooling, but it is doing it in the vacuum of space at -454 °F (-270 °C, 3 K) versus about 77 °F (25 °C, 298 K) on Earth, so that helps a lot. Point being that cooling in space has only a single upfront cost of building a passive radiator.

But what about the overall cost, you ask? Well, think about all the things you don't need to build now. That rack the guy is pushing around weighs 1,400 pounds mostly because of all the metal required to support everything against Earth's gravity. Things can be built far more flimsy in space since they are in zero gravity.

Also that rack has a bunch of power electronics and fans, neither of which are needed in space. Indeed, that entire building those racks sit in doesn't need to be built. All that fiber cabling isn't needed (lasers in space take the place, no need for cables). Giant utility transformers and a small army of step down transformers and battery packs don't need to be built. The land doesn't need to be bought. The permits don't need to be acquired. The supposedly huge amount of water used doesn't need to be provisioned (it's a tiny amount, but the detractors love to bring it up).

There are in fact giant cost savings going into space.

What about launch costs? That is small as well. Starship is fully reusable. The majority of launch costs are natural gas and liquified oxygen extracted from the air. That's it. Cheap access to space, really cheap I mean, is a huge unlock.

I was initially shaking my head when I first heard about Elon's "crazy" idea of space based compute, but the more you look into it, it is far less crazy and more doable and practical. At least for SpaceX.

[Ryan Caton @dpoddolphinpro]

Details on The Exploration Company's Storm:
- Liquid Oxygen/Liquid Bio-methane
- 1,765kN / 180tf thrust (about 72% Raptor 3)
- Full-flow staged combustion cycle
- Reusable

"[...] Storm represents a concrete step toward a new generation of European rocket propulsion."

The Exploration Company had already been working on this engine for some time, but I guess today is the "official" unveiling or something.

So far they've worked on turbomachinery, main combustion chamber hardware, regeneratively cooled nozzle extensions, as well as oxidizer-rich and fuel-rich preburners.

P.S. the original name, Typhoon, was so much better than "Storm" 😭

📷 The Exploration Company

[tristan @agntkrbl]

@ZacksJerryRig dude