NASA launches Roman Space Telescope and contracts for Mars telecommunications satellite while SpaceX sets 2029 for first Starship launches from Louisiana.
how this picture was made
Painted by seedream-v5-pro on api.venice.ai, 2026-09-05 01:04Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A massive Falcon Heavy rocket stands tall on a launchpad at dawn, with a NASA astronaut in the foreground, looking up at the rocket, as a satellite and a spaceplane soar in the sky, amidst a backdrop of volcanic mountains covered in snow, under a pale blue morning sky with a few wispy 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 massive Falcon Heavy rocket stands tall on a launchpad at dawn, with a NASA astronaut in the foreground, looking up at the rocket, as a satellite and a spaceplane soar in the sky, amidst a backdrop of volcanic mountains covered in snow, under a pale blue morning sky with a few wispy 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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SpaceX files FCC paperwork for Starship Flight 14 orbital test
The filing marks the program's first attempt at an orbital mission, though maintenance details for the vehicle remain unverified.
By Luisa Marconi · 2wSpaceX filed with the Federal Communications Commission for Flight 14, a mission intended to be the first orbital flight for the Starship program, according to Evercore.
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