SpaceX engineers spent several days inspecting Ship 40 in the waters off Christmas Island. They collected heatshield samples and gained vital insight into how the vehicle handled reentry with improvements now planned on future vehicles
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SpaceX is partnering with @Nvidia to design the Starmind AI1 satellite compute payload.
Each of the Starmind satellites will include NVIDIA Rubin GPUs and Vera CPUs for datacenter class space compute → https://t.co/4MOQv0DvTQ
The first Starlink V3 satellites in space successfully deployed their solar arrays, fired their thrusters, established connections with the Starlink constellation using radio frequencies and laser links, and captured imagery of Starship
🚀 The first soft splashdown of Starship!
It's just bobbing in the sea at the target location in the Indian Ocean. Tons of post-flight data on heat shield performance from the drones now swarming overhead...
Continuing on the journey to accelerate towards an optical future. Come help us connect and move things with optical photons 🥰 working with an amazing team!
SpaceX has developed a novel Space Situational Awareness (SSA) system, called Stargaze → https://t.co/dZUIfl2xmx
To maximize safety for all satellites in space, @SpaceX will be making Stargaze conjunction data available to all operators, free of charge. By providing this ephemeris sharing and conjunction screening service free of charge, we hope to motivate operators to take similar steps towards ephemeris sharing and safe flight.
The Starlink “mini laser” shown in today’s video will connect third party satellites and space stations into the Starlink constellation. The mini laser is designed to achieve link speeds of 25 Gbps at distances up to 4000 km, and was recently successfully tested in orbit on a satellite launched on Starlink G10-20.
Amazing performance by @starlink during Flight 5 - with coverage aggregated across all terminals on the ship and booster, only 20 ms of outage on the 66 min flight (>99.999% uptime). Now using very similar software to serve rockets as we do to serve airplanes.
@Starlink@PolarisProgram The plaser in Dragon’s trunk and the partner Starlink satellite for the event maintained their laser link during 16 Draco thruster firings
Hello Earth -
We are so grateful for all the support! Please enjoy two recent photos from our mission and stay tuned for our next message 🎶
Sent to you from space over a beam of Starlink laser light 🛰️ - Crew of Polaris Dawn
Coming full circle on this flight — my first project here was Dragon’s communication system software. 32K over TDRS now complemented by gigabit laser links to the Starlink mesh!
Polaris Dawn is the first mission to test @Starlink laser-based communications, using the “Plug and Plaser” inside Dragon’s trunk to communicate with Starlink satellites throughout the mission
Just when you thought it wasn’t possible to make yet another major advance — the latest SpaceX Raptor iteration.
Additive manufacturing internally integrates so many formerly discrete components… Taking “no part is the best part” to the extreme.
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