Stoke Space Reusable Rocket

[TheKutKu]

Important part: "The talks are no longer active, people close to OpenAI said"

 

[BlueAbyssal]

Indeed. But it wouldn’t surprise me if, assuming the bubble doesn’t burst outright, data center launches drive the entire sector to full reuse. Expendables just won’t have the costs or flight rate to keep up.

In other Stoke news, they have a Celestis launch called Infinite Flight, currently scheduled for Q4 2026: https://www.celestis.com/blog/celes...e-flight-our-next-deep-space-voyager-mission/

Their early contracts are all for deep-space missions. I’m curious if those will continue to dominate their manifest, or if station resupply, lunar landings, etc. become a bigger market for them.

 

[Brett Davidson]

Important part: "The talks are no longer active, people close to OpenAI said"

Open AI's run into a spot of bother recently.

Sam Altman issues ‘code red’ at OpenAI as ChatGPT contends with rivals

Chief executive tells staff it is ‘critical time’ for chatbot as it faces intense competition from Google’s new Gemini 3

www.theguardian.com

 

[Scott Kenny]

If that spaceborn data center craze turns serious, then the space program will ride the crest of A.I. Siphonning some of the trillions pumped into the damn thing.
Provided of course the bubble don't burst sooner rather than later, obviously.

I suspect that the bubble will pop pretty soon. The small language bases are already seeing AI collapse from using AI-generated materials to train newer AIs.

 

[BlueAbyssal]

Data centers are used for quite a bit besides AI.

 

[Scott Kenny]

Data centers are used for quite a bit besides AI.

I don't disagree, but it seems that a lot of the major expansion is sold in terms of "needed to support AI"

 

[BlueAbyssal]

For now. It will be interesting to watch where the market goes.

 

[Forest Green]

Stoke Space adds $350 million to Series D round​

Stoke Space adds $350 million to Series D round

Stoke Space has raised an additional $350 million to advance work on its reusable launch vehicle and future projects.

spacenews.com

Stoke Space has raised an additional $350 million to advance work on its reusable launch vehicle and future projects.