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Elon Musk's SpaceX to launch reusable "fabships" for orbital chip manufacturing experiments

By Zak Killian Published

The new D.C.-based startup is hoping to use the vacuum of space as its clean room for chip fabrication.

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX will reportedly receive $2 billion for Trump’s Golden Dome project

By Jowi Morales Published

SpaceX will reportedly deliver 600 satellites for Trump's Golden Dome missile shield project.

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ForgeStar-1, seen on the SpaceX Transporter-14 rideshare rocket.
New satellite to create semiconductors in space reaches orbit

By Sunny Grimm Published

CPUs with parts fabricated in space may be coming soon, assuming the ForgeStar-1 experiment succeeds

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James Webb Space Telescope
1.5TB of James Webb Space Telescope data dumped on the internet

By Mark Tyson Published

NASA-backed astronomy project has just released the 'largest look ever into the deep universe.'

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Starlink factory in Bastrop, Texas
Elon Musk's SpaceX to build its own advanced chip packaging factory in Texas

By Jowi Morales Published

Elon Musk reportedly plans to move some chip packaging capabilities in-house at SpaceX.

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Chip wafer
Axiom Space pitches idea to produce chipmaking materials in space, plans trials aboard ISS

By Anton Shilov Published

Making silicon wafers in space could enable building ultra-pure silicon wafers, but at a prohibitively high cost.

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Kioxia SSDs used in SBC-2 Computers aboard the International Space Station
International Space Station gets Kioxia SSD upgrade for edge computing and AI workloads -- HPE Spaceborne Computer-2 now packs 310TB

By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh Published

With the need to have an on-site computer equipped with local storage, Kioxia has sponsored over 310TB of total SSD space for Spaceborne Computers built by HP Enterprise (HPE).

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Astronauts on the lunar surface
NASA Aims For 100x Speedup With Next Space Computer

By Ian Evenden Published

A lucrative contract to make spaceflight processors has gone to Microchip Technology, Inc. of Arizona.

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