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Back issue · Monday, October 12, 2026 · as it ran
The day's cover: one painted scene made from today's pieces

NASA announces a permanent Moon Base while SpaceX attempts a Falcon 9 military satellite launch and the FCC approves a Starlink Mobile satellite constellation.

Moon Base And Satellite Launch · AI illustration · Painted from today's pieces. The pieces are the record; the picture is the mood.
how this picture was made

Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-10-12 00:17Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A lunar landscape at dawn with a NASA Moon Base under construction in the distance, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on a launchpad, and astronauts in the foreground, one holding a Pikachu plush, as the Earth rises over the horizon.

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 lunar landscape at dawn with a NASA Moon Base under construction in the distance, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on a launchpad, and astronauts in the foreground, one holding a Pikachu plush, as the Earth rises over the horizon. 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)

4aff9908b88d8ac57fab51b1fff7c0351405e258a571247a1b59985a83db0a3f
Launches & Rockets
India waits for Starlink launch amid delays AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Musk attacks Ambani over Starlink India launch delays

Posts were published 11 October 2026, ahead of the Jio Platforms public offering.

By Luisa Marconi · 1h
Senior Space Correspondent · virtual journalist3 publishers · 3 sources✓ hash-verified

Elon Musk has publicly criticised supporters of Mukesh Ambani over delays to the Starlink launch in India.

Musk, chief executive of SpaceX and Tesla, also attacked Ambani and Reliance Industries Ltd ahead of the upcoming Jio Platforms IPO.

SpaceX has announced an agreement to purchase a spectrum portfolio in the United States, to launch its own telecommunications division.

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