We need to make bigger solar sails from materials that can take high temperatures. Taking high temperatures means the solar sails could fly closer to the sun. If we got four times closer to the sun than Mercury (9 million miles or so )then we could go 20AU per year which is about 3 times ... Read more
NASA plans to build larger solar sails that can generate more thrust. A new unique composite carbon fiber booms, the ACS3 system has the potential to support sails as large as 2,000 square meters, or about 21,500 square feet, or about half the area of a soccer field. The ACS3 system has been in low ... Read more
There has been several updates on the numbers of Tesla Dojo systems that have been built. The main technical details are compared between the Tesla Dojo version 1 and the Nvidia H100 and chips from a startup Etched. These are some of the main AI chips that are competing for the future multi-trillion AI training ... Read more
The booster landed with a speed that was far higher than normal. This resulted in damage that eventually broke one of three landing legs. SpaceX had a run of 267 consecutive successful landings. SpaceX booster 1062 has suffered a landing failure after its 23rd flight! 💥 This ends a run of 267 consecutive landings. pic.twitter.com/2TNhegTjp9 ... Read more
[Note: I started this blog post in June of 2023, and was hoping I would never have to finish it. But given the recent decision to return the CFT crew members on Dragon Crew-9 due to technical issues with its … Continue reading →