#Orbital

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On 1 October, Google put four of its AI chips into orbit on a satellite about the size of a...

The California demonstration by Reflect Orbital used spotlights to imitate sunlight-reflecting satellites.

Company imitates reflection of sun from mirrors, prompting pushback from some scientists, environmentalists and California locals

Was playing around with the new Orbital Unloading and came up with this design. Haven't looked at ways other people have been setting it up yet but figured this was a pretty solid build and wanted to share.…

The successful Antares launch restored U.S. cargo ship redundancy for NASA space station crews.

SpaceX's IPO filing reveals that orbital AI data centers hinge on acquiring vastly more chips than currently exist, with Terafab as an uncertain fix. The company admits its plans could fall short amid supplier limits and unstable partnerships.…

Elon Musk and SpaceX are exploring AI data centers in orbit, but the idea reveals a much bigger problem: AI is running into Earth’s limits.

From Polygon RSS Feed: Akira creator Katsuhiro Otomo's mysterious new sci-fi movie just got a massive update

From Dev.to - datascience: How the Gannon G5 Solar Storm Pushed the World’s Largest Satellite Constellation to Its Limits

Rome wasn’t built in a day, and a city on Mars is likely going to take even longer to build than Rome itself. At the time of the first Martian colonists, it is likely that the entirety of humanity’s industrial capacity, including the infrastructure to…

From Dev.to - ai: When in Doubt, Go Up: Orbital Data Centers and the Limits of Architectural Imagination

I have a question about LUMO (Lowest Unoccupied Molecular Orbital), and specifically how Br₂ works as a LUMO. My understanding is that an empty antibonding orbital accepts electrons, but I don’t get how this is specific to Br₂ and why this doesn’t apply…

From Reddit - r/electronicmusic: In Sides by Orbital was released 30 years ago today.

From Gizmodo: Astronomer Finds a Shortcut to Mars by Following an Asteroid’s Journey Through Space

China’s Orbital Chenguang secured major credit lines for space-based data centers as AI demand strains power, land, and cooling capacity.

US Space Command reveals Russia has shifted co-orbital ASAT weapons from tests to operations, with Nivelir satellites shadowing US spy assets. Gen. Whiting warns of nuclear risks too, as wargames game out orbital Armageddon.

It turns out that even after studying our solar system in depth and discovering more than 6,100 exoplanets across more than 4,500 exoplanetary systems, not all solar systems are created equal.…