June 2026 – Page 33 – Aerospace and Mechanical Insider

Teaching legged robots with human cues, then letting simulation do the repetition

SpaceX asks regulators to clear a million satellites for orbital AI servers

Starliner’s Uncrewed ISS Run Turns Propulsion Fixes Into the Whole Program’s Test

Musk Wants a Million Satellites to Compute in Sunlight Engineers See the Bottlenecks

Perseverance’s AI Waypoints Put Rover Driving Through a New Safety Pipeline

Artemis II will fly farther than Apollo ever did, and the cabin details matter

Knee-like rolling joints cut alignment error by 99.6% and let small grippers carry 3.5× more

Space-based AI data centers would demand an industrial launch cadence, not just bigger chips

Too many satellites now leave operators only days to prevent a chain collision

Investors may price “AI in orbit,” but Starlink’s day job carries the real constraints

The hidden bumper covers that decide how safely a car gets moved or “sees” ahead

How SR-71 Crews “Beat the Sun” and what it cost to fly that fast

Musk moved the destination from Mars to the moon hardware readiness will decide it

Helion’s 150-million-degree plasma raises the stakes for fusion power by 2028

Particle Accelerators Could Turn Nuclear Waste Into Power and Shrink Its Danger Window

Scientists found AI’s hidden weakness: “reasoning” models still miss obvious rules

A four-door Mustang may finally make sense and it won’t be just gas

Barra’s blunt truth about plug-in hybrids exposes the policy math behind their “clean” label