Dima Anoshin

What. A. Night. After a little more than 9 days in space and a journey around the Moon, the crew is safe, healthy, and back in gravity. 📷: NASA

This speech is my second favourite thing to have come from the Artemis 2 mission 🥹🥹🥹

Sunbird is a nuclear fusion-powered spacecraft concept developed by Pulsar Fusion to reduce deep-space travel time. It uses a Dual Direct Fusion Drive powered by deuterium and helium-3 and is designed to act as a space tug from low Earth orbit. Still in development, it could become the fastest self-propelled spacecraft ever built if testing is successful.

Elon Musk came within one launch of permanent erasure. It is easy to worship the victories. Comfortable to admire the rockets landing and the stock price climbing. But the real story lives in the wreckage. The year most people never talk about. 2008. He was 37 years old and watching everything collapse at once. Three rockets had exploded into the ocean. Three violent reminders that physics does not negotiate. Tesla was hemorrhaging tens of millions a month. The American economy was in freefall. His marriage was ending. His personal fortune was gone. Musk: “In debt. More than broke.” This is the exact moment where every conventional founder in history walks away. You take the loss. You protect what little dignity remains. You tell yourself you tried. Musk did the opposite. He took every remaining dollar he had on earth and split it between two companies the entire world had already buried. Not a calculated bet. A final stand. Musk: “A fourth failure would have been absolutely game over. Done. SpaceX bankrupt.” There was no Flight Five. There was no backup plan. There was no safety net waiting beneath the man who built rockets for a living. He knew that. He launched anyway. It worked. Flawless. Three days later, NASA called with a $1.5 billion contract. Musk couldn’t hold the phone steady. He just blurted out, “I love you guys.” Two days after that, Christmas Eve, Tesla’s investors came through. Three days. Two miracles. One man who simply would not stop. People call it luck. They say the stars aligned. The lesson is not motivational. It is mechanical. The stars did not align. He held on long enough for the universe to run out of ways to kill him. That is not luck. That is a form of willpower that does not have a name yet. Consider what we almost lost. No reusable rockets. No commercial space industry. No electric vehicle revolution. No Starlink bringing connectivity to war zones and disaster sites and forgotten corners of the planet. All of it. Three days from gone. Not delayed. Deleted. We will not see this again. The specific combination of technical depth, tolerance for pain, and willingness to risk total annihilation for the future of the species does not arrive assembled in one person twice in a century. He is alive. He is still building. Still walking through fire that would have ended anyone else long ago. And the only question left is why the world keeps trying to stop the one man who refused to stop for it.

Sir Peter Beck’s annual letter to shareholders $RKLB

I just published my first deep-dive investment thesis on $RKLB — a company that’s been a 2-year journey for me. What started as a sub–5–figure position has grown into a 7-figure one. I’ve followed the company so closely that it honestly feels like family at this point. Even the CEO, Peter Beck, has retweeted me 3 times — which makes this even more special. Excited to finally share this with you all. My Substack and Discord are FREE for the next 3 years because charging violates my H1b status 😆 open.substack.com/pub/heeranipar…

Chamath is right. “It’s the beginning, of the beginning, of the beginning” of the space industry. @chamath

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan’s advice for startups: “When you’re small, act small” A lot of founders try to emulate large companies, and will do things like use the same terminology as Microsoft to describe their products. But Garry argues this is a mistake: “When you’re starting something new, the whole advantage is that you’re a real human being. We are so starved for real, authentic connection that if you can talk to people and say ‘Hey, I’m the CEO. What do you need?’ That’s the most powerful thing.” Being small lets you offer fanatical customer support. Not only will this win customer trust, but it’ll help you find product/market fit. If you listen to customers, they will tell you what they want. “The reason why people don’t do this is they think starting a startup is building this incredibly complex machinery… But I encourage you to think about it in a different way. It’s more like throwing a really, really amazing party… You go there, you see a friend, they say ‘Welcome! Let me take your coat. Let me introduce you to your friends.’” For his first startup, Posterous, Garry and his team aimed to reply to every single customer support email within ten minutes. And if there was a bug, they fixed it on the spot. Human connection with your customers is really important. Garry cites a study on Usenet that found retention increased from 16% to 26% if someone received a reply to their post on the forum. As Garry explains: “A 10% difference in retention is actually the difference between a startup that’s flatlining and one that’s working. The compounding of this is really, really massive… Be small. Be human.” Video source: @ECorner (2023)

$3 million in pre-seed funding. First satellite launched in 21 months. Unicorn in 17 months from demo day. Fastest in Y Combinator's 21-year, 5,000+ company history. More than double the next largest YC Series A ever raised. And they're building data centers in space. Starcloud-1 launched in November 2025 weighing 60 kilograms with a single NVIDIA H100 on board. It ran inference, fine-tuned a model in orbit, and ran a version of Gemini. All firsts. Total cost to get there: $3 million. Now look at what's coming. Starcloud-2 launches later this year at 450 kilograms with 100x the power generation, an NVIDIA Blackwell B200, an AWS server blade, and a bitcoin mining computer. Real customer workloads from Crusoe, partnerships with AWS, Google Cloud, and NVIDIA. Starcloud-3 is a 200-kilowatt, three-ton spacecraft designed to fit SpaceX's Starship deployment system. The investor list tells you who's paying attention. Benchmark, EQT (which owns 70+ terrestrial data centers), Macquarie Capital ($500B AUM, world's largest infrastructure fund). Angel investors include a former Boeing CEO, a former Starbucks CEO, and a retired Air Force general. When a fund that operates 70 data centers on the ground starts writing checks for data centers in orbit, they're telling you the ground is running out of room. The math on why this exists: over 25 gigawatts of terrestrial data center capacity is currently under construction in the U.S. alone. Permitting and building new energy projects takes up to five years. Meanwhile, low Earth orbit has near-unlimited solar power and zero NIMBY opposition. Starcloud's target: $0.05 per kWh once Starship hits $500/kg launch cost. SpaceX filed to deploy up to one million data center satellites. Starcloud is planning 88,000. The long-term vision for AI compute is literally leaving the planet.

Someone just caught Artemis from their flight. Cool view of little piece of history!

Difference in quality between NASA and SpaceX’s launch livestreams.

🔴 LIVE – Watch the first launch attempt of the Artemis II test flight. CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen is about to become the first Canadian to fly to the Moon! 🌕🚀 youtube.com/watch?v=WcSnjR…

We're going around the Moon. Come watch with us. Artemis II's four-astronaut crew is lifting off from @NASAKennedy on an approximately 10-day mission that will bring us closer to living on the Moon and Mars. The launch window opens at 6:24pm ET (2224 UTC). twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Productive day at The Pentagon for @Starcloud_ 💪 @ezrafeilden

Amazon Leo is coming to @Delta. Delta will install Amazon Leo on hundreds of aircraft across its fleet, bringing fast, reliable Wi-Fi to tens of millions of customers who fly Delta every year. An initial installation on 500 aircraft will begin in 2028. Read more: spr.ly/6019B6myXZ

In 4 or 5 years, there will be a launch every hour

119 satellites. One rocket. One clean booster landing. #spacex

NDP is a total joke 🤣🤣🤣

Had the incredible honour of hosting BGen Horner of the 3 Canadian Space Division, sharing details about our Tundra orbital rocket (with exclusive looks at our flight scale primary structures and tanks in production), Terra Nova satellite platform, SHARP Sabre hypersonic rocket, Hadfield-150 orbital engine program, Atlantic Spaceport Complex, and more. We also toured a new 60,000 sqft facility that NordSpace has acquired to 10x our production capacity of rockets and satellites for Canada. We’re going to redefine Canada’s future in space and leave nothing to chance or on the table.