MAROKO133 Breaking ai: SpaceX Is Building Its Own Particle Accelerator Terbaru 2025

📌 MAROKO133 Hot ai: SpaceX Is Building Its Own Particle Accelerator Edisi Jam 21:1

The Sun unleashes a torrent of charged particles. Some of them slam into the Earth’s atmosphere, triggering breathtaking auroras in the night sky.

But for equipment that’s orbiting our planet in outer space, solar weather can quickly turn into a major headache. The particles have been shown to wreak havoc on the on-board electronics of satellites, endangering their mission and longevity.

As part of an effort to bring the study and testing of the phenomenon in-house, SpaceX is now developing its own particle accelerator in Florida. The planned facility is a cyclotron, which can accelerate individual protons to near the speed of light, allowing them to study how radiation affects their spacecraft, including its broadband-beaming Starlink satellites.

SpaceX’s VP of Starlink, Michael Nicolls, confirmed the news in a tweet last week, announcing that the company is “hiring elite engineers at our new 230 [Meta-electronvolt] cyclotron facility in Florida, where we are bringing single-event radiation testing in house to accelerate development across all SpaceX vehicles.” (Meta-electronvolts, or MeV, are a commonly-used unit to measure the amount of kinetic energy that a single particle can gain.)

Put simply, cyclotrons use a magnetic field to bend the path of charged particles into a circular shape, allowing them to be accelerated to high energies. The idea is to blast these particles at certain materials to simulate the effects of space radiation here on Earth.

Job pages posted to ZipRecruiter suggest the goal is to study how computer chips react to a bombardment of highly energetic particles.

“This proton particle accelerator will be used to screen and characterize electronics across all of our vehicles and platforms, unlocking unprecedented agility for chip and [Printed Circuit Board Assembly] level performance characterization that will be critical as we build and scale our AI constellations and deep space exploration vehicles,” reads a posting for an Electronics Test Engineer.

“As a member of our fast-paced Radiation Effects team, you will be responsible for ensuring avionics hardware performance across our fleet of vehicles (Dragon, Falcon, Starship, Lunar Human Landing System, etc.) and satellites (Starlink, Starshield) through some of the harshest and varied radiation environments imaginable,” the job posting reads.

At 230 MeV, SpaceX’s cyclotron would be quite powerful — but with less than the juice than the 590 MeV Ring Cyclotron at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland, which is considered the most powerful in the world by beam power. (CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is not a cyclotron, but a different type of particle accelerator called a synchrotron.)

SpaceX’s Starlink satellites have already had to endure the damaging effects of space weather, particularly during solar storms. These bursts of electromagnetic activity in orbit have been found to shorten the lifespans of Starlink satellites, causing them to de-orbit much sooner than expected.

Beyond orbit, conditions get even more extreme. Well past the protective boundaries of the Earth’s atmosphere, which extends thousands of miles beyond our planet’s surface, spacecraft are exposed to the full brunt of space radiation — a major challenge for missions into deep space, crewed or uncrewed.

While the risks to electronics are considerable, scientists are still studying the effects of space radiation on the human body as well. Astronauts are exposed to 2.6 times as much radiation on the surface of the Moon, for instance, as they would be when spending the same amount of time on board the International Space Station.

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📌 MAROKO133 Eksklusif ai: Photo Shows Elon Musk at Jeffrey Epstein Dinner Hari Ini

A newly revealed photo shows Elon Musk attending a “wild” dinner with Jeffrey Epstein and other powerful tech figures, including Mark Zuckerberg.

The picture, which appears to have been taken by Epstein himself, was contained in the latest tranche of documents released by the Department of Justice, and adds to the growing pile of evidence showing that Musk had much deeper ties to Epstein than he’s let on publicly.

Based on the photo, other files, and previous reporting from Vanity Fair, the dinner — which was already public knowledge — took place on August 2, 2015, and was hosted by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.

Epstein mentioned the dinner in an email sent to Peter Attia, a wellness and “longevity” influencer, on that same day, adding that along with Musk, Peter Thiel and Mark Zuckerberg would be in attendance. The next day, he emailed himself a photo taken at the dinner, with Musk and Zuckerberg in clear view.

He evidently thought highly of the occasion. Later that month, Epstein bragged about the dinner in an email sent to Tom Pritzker of the billionaire Pritzker family, calling it “wild.”

An email sent by Epstein’s personal assistant Lesley Groff on the morning of the dinner, with the subject “Reconfirming tomorrow’s dinner,” provides a list of attendees. It includes Musk, Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, Hoffman and his wife Michelle Yee, Palantir cofounder Thiel, then-head of MIT Media Lab Joi Ito, MIT neuroscientist Ed Boyden, and Musk’s college roommate Navaid Farooq. 

The dinner was hosted in honor of Boyden by Hoffman, according to Vanity Fair, which first reported on the dinner in 2019. Musk, Hoffman, and Thiel were all considered to be part of the so-called “PayPal mafia,” a group of former heavies at the payment platform that went on to be huge figures in Silicon Valley. 

On top of clearly contradicting Musk’s long-held insistence that he had little contact with Epstein, the dinner revelations also come as the SpaceX CEO has spent the past week or so blasting Hoffman for his apparent ties to the sex trafficker. Shortly after the newly released emails showed that Musk extensively corresponded with Epstein, Musk made a series of tweets highlighting emails claiming Hoffman had visited Epstein’s island and demanded an investigation. Hoffman fired back, sharing evidence of Musk’s own involvement, including an email in which Musk asks Epstein when his “wildest” party will be on the island. Musk continued to maintain his innocence throughout their catfight.

“The big difference between you and me, Reid, is that you went and I did not,” Musk fumed. He added that he “obviously didn’t anticipate anything actually shady, as I was bringing my wife [Talulah Riley] at the time.” 

Notwithstanding that all these emails are taking place well after Epstein was first convicted of sex crimes against underage girls in 2008, some exchanges show that Musk was almost certainly aware, to some degree, of the kinds of parties Epstein was throwing. In a conversation on Christmas day 2012, Epstein cautioned Musk that the “ratio on my island might make Talilah [sic] uncomfortable,” using a euphemism for the number of women, or perhaps young girls, that would be there compared to the number of men. Musk responded: “Ratio is not a problem for Talulah.”

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