Mercury freezes at roughly minus 38.8 degrees Celsius, a temperature so far below everyday conditions that the silvery ...

In a sense, this whole thing was inevitable. Elon Musk and his coterie have been talking about AI in space for years — mainly in the context of Iain Banks’ science-fiction series about a far-future ...

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at building data centers in orbit, the new inductees to the National Inventors Hall of Fame, 3D-printed housing and more. To get The Prototype in your ...

In a newly filed FCC application, Musk’s SpaceX outlines plans to launch a data center constellation of up to 1 million satellites. Reading time 3 minutes Orbital data centers are the latest big tech ...

This time-lapse image of Venus and the Pleiades shows the tracks of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites. The image received an award in the 2021 IAU OAE Astrophotography Contest. (Torsten Hansen / IAU OAE / ...

Representational image: Elon Musk is looking to put data centers in space.Heisenberg Media/Wikimedia Elon Musk plans to place artificial intelligence data centers in orbit. AI has a huge energy ...

In one 8-page document, SpaceX describes its proposed Orbital Data Center system. "To deliver the compute capacity required for large scale AI inference and data center applications serving billions ...

Hundreds of miles above Earth, thousands of satellites and fragments of debris are racing around the planet at speeds exceeding 17,000 miles per hour. Most of the time, they pass safely by one another ...

SpaceX has lost contact with one of its broadband satellites, which is now falling toward Earth due to an unspecified and seemingly mysterious anomaly. The company revealed that a Starlink satellite ...

Intellistake has now completed its initial US$500,000 strategic equity investment in Orbit AI. On December 10, 2025 Orbit AI successfully launched its first Orbital Cloud satellite. Intellistake is ...

Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti receives funding from NASA and Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). He teaches space systems engineering and mission design and management at the University ...