John W. Little

🛰️Design locked 🔒 We’ve completed Critical Design Review for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 2 Transport Layer constellation. We’re now moving into full-scale production of 18 spacecraft to support the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture. Read more bit.ly/4l5e5cL

Rocket Lab launches second Electron within 48 hours A Rocket Lab Electron placed an undisclosed satellite into orbit June 28 on the company’s second launch within 48 hours and fourth this month.

Rocket Lab launches second Electron within 48 hours

A Rocket Lab Electron placed an undisclosed satellite into orbit June 28 on the company’s second launch within 48 hours and fourth this month.

Our next Electron rocket is lined up at Launch Complex 1 for launch later today - our second mission in less than 48 hours from the same site 🚀🚀

The launch window for 'Symphony In The Stars' opens:

⏰NZT | 6:45 p.m.
⏰UTC | 06:45
⏰EDT | 2:45 a.m.
⏰PDT | 11:45 p.m.

Electron is vertical on the launch pad in preparation for this morning’s mission for HawkEye 360.

📍 Launch site: LC-1 Pad A
🛰️ Payload: 4x satellites
🎯 Orbit: 520km LEO
🚀 Launch window opens: 5:00 am NZT / 17:00 UTC

Tune into the live broadcast at T-20 minutes: rocketlabcorp.com/live-stream/

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Thanks. I've built a personal system for automating model edits and builds. I'm working to consolidate a lot of the different components and may make it available - but not likely to be very soon.

Screenshot of model deck instructions

Did you launch a simple web server?

Next on the pad at LC-1 🚀 ‘Symphony In The Stars’ will deploy a single satellite to a 650km orbit for a confidential commercial customer at the end of this week.

Launch window opens NET June 20th.

More info: bit.ly/3xAxsql

Working with LLMs closely for an extended period is to be constantly awed by both their intelligence and stupidity.

Language models may not get us to “superintelligence”, but they’re definitely already powerful enough to create very socially and economically destabilizing technologies so it doesn’t really matter. We have to make the world ready for that.

Massive Stealth Flying Wing Emerges At Secretive Chinese Base It's possible we are seeing a very large high-flying stealth drone or China's long awaited H-20 stealth bomber.

"Massive Stealth Flying Wing Emerges At Secretive Chinese Base
This appears to be China's largest high-altitude, long-endurance drone, and one that has clear low observable qualities."
@twz.com h/t @alxluck.bsky.social
www.twz.com/air/massive-...

Beefing up my AI log assistant tool. It proactively alerts me to system issues and I can chat with it about the activities of my various agents.

Israel’s unprecedented attack shows Iran has become a ‘playground’ for the Mossad | CNN Before Israel launched a wave of strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities and top military leaders this week, its spies were already on the ground in enemy territory.

“A second Israeli security source said the Mossad operations were years in the making, involving both intel-gathering efforts & the deployment of Mossad commandos deep behind enemy lines. Some of the Mossad commando forces operated in the Iranian capital” www.cnn.com/2025/06/13/m...

Shining light on America’s missing man in Syria A top official in the Assad regime says it seized the American

What happened to Austin Tice? He vanished in Syria over a decade ago, but questions remain. One man may have the answer https://econ.trib.al/WeoWyxr

Iran’s Options for Retaliating Against Israel Iran faces a critical decision in responding to Israel’s unprecedented attacks; with an increasingly narrow options, the likely option will be a choice of missile and drone retaliation directly target...

"Given Israel’s unilateral decision to strike Iran, Tehran will be reluctant to take actions that draw Gulf States and the United States into a broader war," write CSIS Futures Lab experts.

Read more on Iran's options for retaliating against Israel: www.csis.org/analysis/ira...

I Taught an AI to Read My Logs (So I Don't Have To) I built an AI assistant that reads system logs and explains what's happening in plain language instead of technical jargon. Transforms monitoring from tedious manual scanning into proactive, conversat...

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On the bright side, this is an excellent opportunity to fine tune an AI-powered automated intelligence platform...

screenshot of a chat with a custom LLM

The platform I'm building generates a ton of log entries so I created a custom model and script that runs in terminal and updates me, informally, on the system status every 5 minutes. I can ask it questions about the logs as well.

Exclusive: After Trump feud, role of Musk's SpaceX in Golden Dome missile shield in question The role of Elon Musk's SpaceX in an ambitious new U.S. missile defense system is in question following the dramatic feud last week between the billionaire entrepreneur and President Donald Trump, according to three people familiar with the project.

Exclusive: The role of Elon Musk's SpaceX in an ambitious new US missile defense system is in question following the dramatic feud last week between the billionaire entrepreneur and President Donald Trump, according to three people familiar with the project. reut.rs/4045Zsl

AI Search Agents Redefined: Agentic Research, MCP, & Tool Calling YouTube video by IBM Technology

AI Search Agents Redefined: Agentic Research, MCP, & Tool Calling www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUUz...

Introduction to AI Fluency Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Learn to collaborate with AI systems effectively, efficiently, ethically, and safely www.anthropic.com/ai-fluency

MacTop screenshot showing power consumption of a Mac Studio

The Mac Studio M3 Ultra cranking away in the middle of a multi agent process that takes several minutes to execute. Power consumption is 🤏

Coding Defense Solutions on the Fly with AI - War on the Rocks Two weeks ago, a P-8 aviator asked if I could make a tool to help plan flight schedules when conducting operations against maneuvering submarines. The

Why throw manpower at problems when AI can deliver working software before lunch? warontherocks.com/20...

🕊️ "Peace is not a deal we make. It is a right we defend." #BrusselsForum

🇧🇪 Maxime Prévot, Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs for European Affairs calls for a long-term peace plan for future generations.

NATO chief calls for five times more air defenses increase to deter Russia Mark Rutte also appeared to accept that the US will go through with plans to withdraw its forces from Europe, but in a way that won't leave "capability gaps."

NATO chief calls for five times more air defenses increase to deter Russia

Solving the Stale Knowledge Problem in AI Intelligence Analysis With a little creativity, AI intelligence systems can overcome their fundamental limitation of frozen training data through curated knowledge bases and systematic verification processes that maintain ...

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Autonomous Drone from TU Delft Defeats Human Champions in Historic Racing First YouTube video by MAVLab TU Delft

Autonomous Drone from TU Delft Defeats Human Champions in Historic Racing First www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz2i...

"For the first time in history, you can hear what a 2nd stage sounds like with our new live audio from space. We use structure born vibe to recreate audio. Listen for stage sep, electric pumps spool up and ignition." - Peter Beck

Livestream starting now www.youtube.com/watch?v=PplS...

Set your alarm for our next mission⏰Our launch operators will be on console overnight to prepare Electron for its 66th launch and latest constellation deployment for iQPS.

Launch window opens:
🚀 June 12, 3:15 a.m. NZT
🚀 June 11, 15:15 UTC
🚀 June 11, 11:15 a.m. EDT
🚀 June 11, 8:15 a.m. PDT