‘Greetings, earthlings’: Nvidia-backed Starcloud trains first AI model in space as orbital data center race heats up

‘Greetings, earthlings’: Nvidia-backed Starcloud trains first AI model in space as orbital data center race heats up

The Starcloud-1 satellite is launched into space from a SpaceX rocket on November 2, 2025. Courtesy: SpaceX | Starcloud Nvidia-backed startup Starcloud trained an artificial intelligence model from space for the first time, signaling a new era for orbital data centers that could alleviate Earth’s escalating digital infrastructure crisis. Last …

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Investing in Space: The U.S.-China space race is getting tighter

Investing in Space: The U.S.-China space race is getting tighter

CNBC’s Investing in Space newsletter offers a view into the business of space exploration and privatization, delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up to receive future editions. A Long March-12 rocket carrying a group of internet satellites blasts off from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site on Aug. 4, 2025 in Wenchang, …

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Apollo 13 moon mission leader James Lovell dies at 97

Apollo 13 moon mission leader James Lovell dies at 97

James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, Illinois, NASA said in a statement on Friday. “Jim’s character and steadfast courage helped our nation reach the Moon …

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Investing in Space: Space IPOs are rearing their heads again

Investing in Space: Space IPOs are rearing their heads again

CNBC’s Investing in Space newsletter offers a view into the business of space exploration and privatization, delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up to receive future editions. Stock market information at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, US, on Wednesday, July 9, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Overview: Space IPOs …

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Investing in Space: NASA’s months of reckoning

Investing in Space: NASA’s months of reckoning

CNBC’s Investing in Space newsletter offers a view into the business of space exploration and privatization, delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up to receive future editions. WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 2: A NASA logo is displayed at the entrance to the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building on June 2, 2025 …

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Investing in Space: NATO holds out its hand to the commercial space sector

Investing in Space: NATO holds out its hand to the commercial space sector

CNBC’s Investing in Space newsletter offers a view into the business of space exploration and privatization, delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up to receive future editions. BRUSSELS, BELGIUM – DECEMBER 04: Logo of the NATO on December 04, 2024 in Brussels, Belgium. (Photo by Florian Gaertner/Photothek via Getty Images) Florian Gaertner …

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In the new space race, hackers are hitching a ride into orbit

In the new space race, hackers are hitching a ride into orbit

The unoccupied space-facing port on the International Space Station’s Harmony module is pictured several hours before the SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft would relocate there after undocking from Harmony’s forward port. NASA Johnson Space Center In the race to conquer the cosmos, the greatest challenge to space exploration might be the …

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