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Firefly's FDA-cleared EEG/ERP brain-function platform will be embedded into RadialOS, the AI-guided operating system used across 27 US brain medicine

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Redmond, Wash.-based Starcloud has signed up to send its artificial intelligence data-processing hardware into lunar orbit on a Firefly Aerospace spacecraft. Starcloud’s payload, known as SC-1L, will fly on Firefly’s Elytra orbital vehicle during a NASA-supported mission that’s scheduled for launch no earlier than 2028. The mission will demonstrate technologies that Starcloud plans to use on AI data centers in Earth orbit — and around the moon as well. “Space is the future of data centers, and the moon is the next frontier for that vision,” Ezra Feilden, Starcloud’s co-founder and chief technology officer, said today in a news release. Starcloud made its mark in Earth orbit last year with Starcloud-1, a satellite equipped with an Nvidia H100 chip. Starcloud-1 successfully trained a large language model called NanoGPT, marking a first for orbital computing. “We successfully validated our ability to run and train AI models on enterprise-grade GPUs in low Earth orbit, and now we’re taking this proven technology to lunar orbit,” Feilden said. Starcloud’s SC-1L payload will be integrated aboard the Elytra vehicle for a mission aimed at delivering Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander to a lunar region known as the Gruithuisen Domes. After the lander separates from Elytra and...

Prototype data center scheduled to make the trip to the moon to demonstrate Starcloud's in-space processing capabilities in 2028.

To misquote Firefly’s Wash Washburn, “I am a Leaf Phoenix on the wind, watch how I soar!” The year is 1986 and the film Jason Dedrick, Eric Fell and Vicky Van are remembering is Space Camp starring…

Firefly Aerospace (Nasdaq: FLY) signed a commercial payload agreement with Starcloud to demonstrate AI computing aboard its Elytra spacecraft in lunar orbit.Starcloud’s SC-1L payload will process data from Firefly’s Solux vision system and transmit processed data to Earth, testing capabilities for a future lunar data center. The payload is being onboarded to Firefly’s third lunar mission, targeted to launch no earlier than 2028. Elytra will first provide transfer and communications support for the Blue Ghost lander’s mission to the Moon’s Gruithuisen Domes under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative. After that mission is completed, Elytra will remain in lunar orbit for five years for customer payload and imaging operations, including Starcloud’s demonstration.

My journey to a firefly sanctuary in Bali revealed a striking truth: the artificial light destroying the firefly’s glow is the same force disrupting our circadian rhythms, sleep, and long-term health.

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To misquote Firefly’s Wash Washburn, “I am a Leaf Phoenix on the wind, watch how I soar!” The year is 1986 and the film Jason Dedrick, Eric Fell and Vicky Van are remembering is Space Camp starring Leaf (soon to be Joaquin) Phoenix. Also there’s a robot called Jinx - not to be confused with the Halle Berry character of the same name.

My journey to a firefly sanctuary in Bali revealed a striking truth: the artificial light destroying the firefly’s glow is the same force disrupting our circadian rhythms, sleep, and long-term health.