Future Stories

SLS still has helium leaks. Helium leaks have been a problem since the Space Shuttle days. It is so cold that it is hard to work with. The picture is of the SLS rolling back to the Vehicle Assembly Building in 2022. Rolling back to the bay for work will look the same in 2026. ... Read more

On the Feb 12, 2026 USSF-87 launch, one of Vulcan’s four Northrop Grumman GEM 63XL solid rocket boosters (SRBs) suffered a nozzle burn-through (visible fiery plume ~20–30 seconds after liftoff). This is the second identical anomaly (first occurred on Vulcan’s second flight in Oct 2024). The mission still succeeded (core stage compensated), but ULA and ... Read more

As of February 2026, NextBigFuture.com is one of the most heavily cited external sources on Grokipedia, with approximately 1,050–1,450 distinct Grokipedia pages containing direct links to NextBigFuture articles. This is roughly 10–13 times more than on English Wikipedia, which has ~110 citations. This high citation volume is concentrated in topics where NextBigFuture has provided long-term, ... Read more

NASA escalated the botched Starliner to a Type A mishap — and publicly blamed both Boeing and itself. The Boeing Starliner had over $200 million of property damage. Type A is NASA’s highest-severity label — it signals not just a technical problem but something that demands systemic change. A NASA “Type A” mishap is the ... Read more

✅ Progressing well — no major hydrogen leaks reported this time. ✅ Rocket is now in its final fueling configuration (“replenish mode”) on all stages (core stage + Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage). ✅ Brief ground communications glitch earlier this morning (around 11 a.m.) was quickly resolved by switching to backup systems. ✅ Teams have completed ... Read more

Marques Brownlee will likely be sold the first commercial Tesla Cybercab that will be used outside of Tesla. Most Tesla Cybercabs will be built and used internally for the Tesla robotaxi fleet. Marques made a bet that a Cybercab would not be made and sold for less than $30,000 before 2027 and delivered to a ... Read more

Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 19th February 2026, CyberNewswire

I reveal • How Grok 4.20’s 4-agent system (Captain Grok + Harper + Benjamin + Lucas) works with shared weights for massive efficiency • The bombshell “MacroHard” project: digital humans that watch your screen, move your mouse, and automate repetitive white-collar work using Tesla Hardware 4 chips in parked cars • Why this could create ... Read more

Elon Musk confirmed to me, Brian Wang, that the current beta model is the ~500B parameter base model. Overall early consensus from testers, it beats or matches frontier models (GPT-5, Claude 4/Opus 4.5, Gemini 3) in practical coding, simulations, iterative work, and real-world agentic tasks. XAI Grok 4.20 will scale to 16 agents in Heavy ... Read more