SpaceX hits reusable booster milestones while NASA launches Roman Space Telescope and astronauts complete a spacewalk to upgrade the International Space Station.
how this picture was made
Painted by seedream-v5-pro on api.venice.ai, 2026-09-03 01:02Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A vast launchpad stretches under a dawn sky with a Falcon Heavy rocket rising in the distance, as astronauts in suits walk towards a space station module, while a Starship prototype sits nearby, and a massive asteroid flies silently overhead, amidst a backdrop of rising sun and scattered clouds.
Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received
Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A vast launchpad stretches under a dawn sky with a Falcon Heavy rocket rising in the distance, as astronauts in suits walk towards a space station module, while a Starship prototype sits nearby, and a massive asteroid flies silently overhead, amidst a backdrop of rising sun and scattered clouds. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. No such surface appears in the picture at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing.
The picture's own pin (SHA-256 of the exact bytes served)
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Chinese spaceplane releases satellite that loops around another craft
US tracking data shows the maneuver took place in June 2026 in a crowded orbital region.
By Luisa Marconi · 2wA secretive Chinese spaceplane released a small satellite in June 2026 that subsequently looped around another Chinese satellite before returning toward the spaceplane, according to US space-tracking firm LeoLabs.
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