Topic: spacex launch
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Ride a Cosmic Carpool to a Distant Space Weather Post
A $1.6 billion trio of scientific missions launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to a point nearly a million miles from Earth, using a shared "cosmic carpool" approach to maximize scientific return. NOAA's satellite will provide real-time solar wind data to forecast geomagnetic storms that threate...
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How SpaceX's Historic Rocket Landing Revolutionized Launches
SpaceX's first in-flight failure occurred in June 2015 when a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a NASA cargo mission disintegrated, though the Dragon capsule briefly survived and transmitted data. Engineers attempted an unprecedented emergency command to deploy the capsule's parachutes, but the effort fai...
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Commercial Space Station Startup Reaches Orbit
Vast's Haven Demo mission successfully reached orbit, marking a key step toward privately owned space stations and validating the company's spacecraft design under actual spaceflight conditions. The company is pursuing an iterative development strategy, with plans to advance from the Haven Demo t...
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NVIDIA's H100 GPU Launches AI Processing Into Orbit
Nvidia's H100 GPU, launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, is the first terrestrial-grade data-center GPU in space, offering a hundredfold performance increase over previous spaceborne computers for AI tasks like Earth observation analysis. Orbital data centers, as tested by Starcloud-1, reduce env...
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UK Launches Space Factory with 1,000°C Furnace
A UK company, Space Forge, has successfully operated a high-temperature furnace in orbit, reaching about 1,000°C, to manufacture ultra-pure semiconductor materials in the microgravity and vacuum of space. Manufacturing in space allows for near-perfect atomic alignment without gravity's distortion...
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