SpaceX to attempt Starship catch on next flight, with eye on rapid cadence increase
"We have had significant constructive engagement with the FAA.".
"We have had significant constructive engagement with the FAA."
The short version
- “We have had significant constructive engagement with the FAA.” In its current iteration, SpaceX is largely a data company seeking to provide enormous amounts of compute for artificial intelligence.
- During an earnings call on Tuesday afternoon, company officials spent much of their time discussing ambitious plans to roll out up to 10 GW of compute in 2027—on the ground.
- Gone are the days of aspirational talk about sending humans to Mars and settling the red planet.
What happened
Now it is almost all about artificial intelligence and the data needed to support its expansion. However, the company’s long-term ambitions to provide data services from space, initially with the Starlink Internet constellation and eventually through the “Starmind” data center constellation, still rely on an actual rocket.
Why it matters
That would be the Starship vehicle, and during the earnings call, SpaceX founder Elon Musk and the company’s president and chief operating officer, Gwynne Shotwell, provided new performance targets for the vehicle.
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