SpaceTech Pulse

Starbase Updates

• 🔥 Booster 19 Rolled Back from Pad 2: SpaceX rolled back Booster 19 from Pad 2 following its first test campaign at the launch...

Pivotal V3 debut from Pad 2, first 2026 launch after two years of upgrades.

• Booster swap: B18 lost in cryo test at Massey's; now B19/S39 in preps.
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Key Gemini upgrades for space/tech pros:

• Cross-app data pull: Creates Docs, Sheets, Slides from multiple sources.
• Email & content tools:...

US government deems Anthropic AI an 'unacceptable risk' to military and national security due to its refusal to allow deployment for any lawful use.

NASA is reassessing the rollout date for the Artemis II rocket following repairs, signaling potential schedule risks for the crewed mission's pad updates.

Starbase milestone: SpaceX rolled back Booster 19 from Pad 2 following its first test campaign at the launch site, captured in a live stream drawing thousands of views.

Starbase Starship Advances

• 🔥 Booster 19 Static Fire: SpaceX conducted a static fire test of Super Heavy Booster 19, the first Version 3 booster...

Cognitive science critiques reveal why AI systems don't truly learn autonomously, sparking 62 points of heated Hacker News debate—key implications for space on-board autonomy and realtime AI inference limits.

Rising alternatives to OpenAI and Anthropic via enterprise custom models and open-source push:

• Mistral Forge enables training custom AI from...

SpaceX's revenue ops meet dev acceleration:

• Falcon 9 Starlink 10-46 launched 29 satellites from Florida; Booster B1090 on its 11th flight with...

Toward automated verification of unreviewed AI-generated code scores 45 points on Hacker News – a critical ML engineering tool for reliable agentic AI in space autonomy workflows.

Polarized DLSS 5 reactions pit breakthrough against fidelity fears:

• NVIDIA's hype: 'GPT moment for graphics' via generative AI enhancing lighting,...

NASA flags critical risks for Starship Human Landing System: single external elevator ~10 stories up with no backup if it fails.

• Starship's 52m...

• Booster 19 is Super Heavy for Starship Flight 12, first v3 full stack launch.
• Live static fire test of B19, attempting Version 3 Super Heavy for the first time.
• Community coverage tracks this key Starbase prep step.

Google's Personal Intelligence—pulling Gmail, Photos, and more for tailored Gemini responses—is accelerating across its ecosystem:

• Jan start:...

OpenAI expands government reach via AWS partnership, selling AI models to U.S. agencies for classified and unclassified work.

• Builds on recent...

Astroport-Astrolab partnership equips FLEX rovers with interchangeable tools like excavators and graders for lunar soil work—building pads, roads,...

Jensen Huang must sell AI's future at Nvidia's GTC to a skeptical audience, as Meta plans 20% layoffs to offset $600B data spending by 2028.

OpenAI-Oracle Stargate ambitions hit turbulence:

• OpenAI eyed $300B payment to Oracle for data center capacity, linked to $500B project.
• Oracle...

An xAI engineer went viral sharing a 19-hour workday shortly after joining Elon Musk's AI startup, declaring 'I've Never Felt More Alive'—spotlighting the intense culture fueling AI innovation.