[thatcherc]

Are the pictures in that second link from a diffusion model? They look flashy but they don't look like any spacecraft I recognize (and are weirdly asymmetric) and especially don't look like the Starlink satellites SpaceX has launched so far, which look more like [1].

[1] - https://spacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Starlink-Sc...

[marcellus23]

Definitely looks like it. There's also no source on the images, and each image has a different-looking spacecraft.

[vel0city]

Yeah, and the strange solar panel placement on the last one really solidifies to me these are AI generated images. Weird filler to this article.

[b112]

The are larger, because each is going to hold significant compute power, all driven by solar and internal magno-derived, gravatic driven ancillary power systems.