Josh @jp215

Wait. Google is paying SpaceX $920 million per month for GPUs? Google. The company that builds its own TPUs. That runs one of the largest cloud infrastructures on earth. Is renting 110,000 Nvidia GPUs from a rocket company. I'm honestly not sure what to make of this. Either Google's AI compute needs have gotten so massive that even they can't build fast enough. Or SpaceX has built something in AI infrastructure that nobody was paying attention to. Or both. $920M a month. $30B over the contract. Whatever is happening behind the scenes at these companies is moving way faster than what we see publicly.

Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt

3 days ago

SpaceX has just announced that they have entered into a $920 million per month agreement with Google to provide compute capacity, according to a new filing. "On June 5, 2026, we entered into a Cloud Service Agreement with Google with respect to access to compute capacity. The

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Here's the announcement that the Ontario, Canada Teachers' Pension Plan made in 2019 when they invested $300M into @SpaceX, which at the target IPO valuation of $1.75T would be worth $11.6B: "SpaceX is the world’s leading private space launch provider, and we are excited to work with the company in the next phase of its growth as it rolls out its Starlink satellite network." This would come out to about $33,500 for each of the Pension Plans' 346,000 members. Incredible.

Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt

17 hours ago

The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is sitting on a potential windfall of as much as $11.6 billion from an initial investment of about $300 million into @SpaceX in 2019. This would make it the single most successful investment the pension plan has ever made. The Teachers

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During a telescope observation of the Moon, a fast-moving object appeared near the lunar surface before briefly disappearing from view. The object's identity cannot be confirmed from a single recording, and several explanations may exist, including a meteoroid, satellite transit, or imaging artifact. Observations like these highlight the dynamic nature of astronomical imaging. A fleeting moment near the Moon... captured through a telescope.

Coming soon: one of history’s most complex missions Tune in on Tuesday, June 9, at 11am ET, to meet the astronauts flying aboard Artemis III, the mission that will test docking capabilities with commercial landers in low Earth orbit — an important step to crewed lunar landings.

Thank goodness @NASA chose @SpaceX, not just @BoeingSpace, as a launch provider for NASA's astronauts.

More of these types of stories should be written about SpaceX’s IPO. Thousands of folks who would traditionally not had access to ownership in a company are about to have an awesome outcome. I had the good fortune to be able to a few hundred welders and technicians. Most will make 6 and 7 figures. Capitalism is awesome 🚀

The Wall Street Journal @WSJ

a day ago

Current and former SpaceX employees are poised to hit it big when the rocket-and-satellite maker goes public next week. on.wsj.com/3Q3wGvu

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If you want to hate America watch the news, if you want to love America drive across it. 🇺🇸

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Today we remember D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy. With 160,000 troops, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history.

RIGHT NOW in 1944, this is the scene in Normandy. The liberation of France is underway #DDay

D-Day: Invasion of Normandy [Real Footage in Colour]

16th Infantry Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division moving towards Omaha Beach, taken by Robert Capa. One of the Magnificent Eleven photos we have of his. He took over 100 that morning, but most were lost in a processing accident.

Reminder for all young parents: You only get: - 1 Summer with your baby - 3 with your toddler - 9 with your child - 5 with your teenager This time is precious. Don’t rush it.

They put the skyline on the cover and the entirety of Chicago got hit with the worst Madden curse of all time

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BREAKING: Inside Impulse Space with Tom Mueller (@lrocket) (SpaceX's 1st Employee) FULL TOUR The famous engineer behind the Merlin engine, now Founder, CEO & CTO of Impulse Space (@GoToImpulse) ICYMI: Merlin still powers Falcon 9 today, the most reliable rocket engine ever flown & the highest thrust-to-weight ever developed. It's the workhorse behind nearly every SpaceX mission: Starlink launches, Dragon crew & cargo flights to the ISS, & booster landings Tom walks us through the factory floor, from the avionics clean room to a live rocket engine firing in the vacuum chamber Impulse is building the in-space mobility layer: the vehicles & engines that move spacecraft after launch, from LEO to GEO, the Moon, infinity & beyond We cover: → Mira: precision maneuvering spacecraft & its saiph thrusters (8 thrusters, ~50 lbs thrust, 5-yr orbit life) → Helios: long haul same-day delivery vehicle (12 tons of LOX/methane, LEO to GEO) → Deneb Engine: 15,000 lbs thrust engine that powers Helios, ox-rich staged combustion, carbon skirt running over 3,000°F → Why 3D printing is "almost a cheat code" for rocket engines → In-house composite tanks, Novaloy, & copper liners machined from 700 lbs down to 25 → 3 spacecraft in orbit + a 1,200-meter rendezvous → Starlink, iterating Merlin & Raptor, & working with @elonmusk → Nuclear propulsion, the Moon, & why compute needs to move to space 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Tom Mueller, Founder, CEO & CTO of Impulse Space (00:49) Inside Impulse Space (02:32) Avionics Bay floor (02:59) Building rockets at home (03:50) Mira and Helios (08:00) Why Tom left SpaceX (09:33) The Deneb Engine walkthrough (11:42) Testing in Mojave (12:23) Favorite part of the Engine (13:30) How it's 3D Printed (14:21) Why 3D Printing changes everything (16:54) Finding Talent for COPVs (17:28) No Modern hardware without software (19:52) The Mill Turn explained (22:42) Payload Deck Design (25:28) Entering the Secret Area (30:48) Thrust, Flow Rate, & 100 Sensors (32:13) Collision avoidance in Orbit (32:57) The Electric Propulsion Chamber (34:28) Nuclear Electric is the future (38:49) Data Centers in Space (40:28) SpaceX & Starlink's Growth (41:10) Working with Elon (42:07) If not CEO, then what? (42:32) Moon matters more than Mars

Roscosmos has paused Friday’s structural repair efforts inside the Zvezda service module transfer tunnel, known as PrK, as more measurements and data is assessed. Given this development, NASA has instructed the crew members inside the Dragon spacecraft to end the safe haven procedures and return to planned operations aboard the International Space Station. We look forward to working with Roscosmos on a collaborative approach to address the leaks.

NEW: American journalist pleads guilty to working as a Chinese agent.

The Zvezda service module transfer tunnel, known as PrK, has suffered from cracks and leaks for some time, and has been mitigated by Roscosmos as much as possible to date. The cracks have always been a concern that NASA watches very closely. NASA and Roscosmos have been working to determine the root cause of the cracks, and Roscosmos manages the issue through operational mitigation measures and periodic partial-repair efforts.

Following new leaks, Roscosmos has elected to proceed with a more extensive repair operation on Friday, June 5. Out of an abundance of caution, NASA has directed all four of the agency's SpaceX Crew-12 members and NASA astronaut Chris Williams to assume an elevated safety posture in the Dragon spacecraft while the repair is underway.

We continue to work with our Russian counterparts, along with the rest of the international community that supports the space station, to arrive at a more permanent resolution.

The Challenger disaster never happens. NASA doesn’t just lose seven astronauts that day. It loses momentum, trust, and maybe an entire generation’s belief in how far we could go. One of America’s biggest “what ifs.”

Today in History @TodayinHistory

5 days ago

If you could change the outcome of one event from history, what would it be?

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It'd be interesting to find out what the "more extensive" repair operation involves, to the point that the Crew-12 astronauts need to be (I assume) "inside" Dragon and ready to undock in the event those repairs...well, it wouldn't be good for anyone, not least the Cosmonauts conducting the repairs.

Bethany Stevens @NASASpox

3 days ago

The Zvezda service module transfer tunnel, known as PrK, has suffered from cracks and leaks for some time, and has been mitigated by Roscosmos as much as possible to date. The cracks have always been a concern that NASA watches very closely. NASA and Roscosmos have been working

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