SpaceX appears to be putting its Mars plans on hold for the time being. According to the Wall Street Journal, the company is now prioritising the Moon instead. The current goal is an uncrewed lunar landing scheduled for March 2027, with no astronauts aboard initially. Elon Musk had previously aimed to send an uncrewed mission…
SpaceX has set out a plan to shift large-scale artificial intelligence computing away from Earth and into orbit, following its acquisition of xAI. The proposal comes amid growing pressure on terrestrial data centres, which consume vast amounts of electricity and require constant cooling. According to SpaceX, global demand for AI compute is rising faster than…
Speaking at a tech conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, Garman threw some cold water on the notion of space-based data centers, which have been touted by Elon Musk and others as the future of AI. While putting AI data centers in space has obvious benefits, including the ability to harness energy directly from the…
Elon Musk confirms ‘SpaceX and xAI are now one company’; says future of AI is in space (Image Source – X/ xAI) SpaceX has moved to absorb Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence start-up xAI, bringing the smaller company and its Grok chatbot under the aerospace firm’s control. The deal continues Musk’s broader effort to align his…
SpaceX Wants a Million Satellites for AI: Is This the Future of Computing or a Space Disaster Waiting to Happen? SpaceX has submitted a daring proposal to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to launch a constellation of up to one million satellites into Earth orbit, not for Internet coverage like Starlink but as orbital…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Dragon delivers final orbital boost to the ISS before return (AI-generated) The International Space Station received another small lift late last week, continuing a routine but essential process that keeps the orbiting laboratory at the right height above Earth. On Friday, January 23, a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft attached to the station fired…
The TOI correspondent from Washington: Among Silicon Valley elites where tech titans have largely aligned with President Donald Trump’s purportedly race-driven MAGA vision, Indian-American venture capitalist Vinod Khosla has been an outlier. Exceptional as his opposition to Trump has been, the billionaire tech savant has set off a political and cultural firestorm this week with…
Crew 11 (Image credit Nasa) Nasa astronauts aboard the International Space Station will return “no earlier than 5 pm ET on January 14,” after a medical issue led the crew to end their mission ahead of schedule, Nasa said in a statement, adding that the crew member was ‘stable’.In a post on X, the American…