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StarCoder
StarCoder is a family of open large language models for code from the BigCode project, a Hugging Face and ServiceNow collaboration, first released in May 2023.
Starfish Prime
Starfish Prime, part of Operation Fishbowl, was a 1962 US high-altitude nuclear test that detonated a 1.4-megaton warhead above Johnston Island, disabling satellites and causing EMP damage in Hawaii.
Stargate
Stargate is an AI data-center company announced in January 2025 by OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, and MGX, which intends to invest $500 billion over four years, starting in Abilene, Texas.
Stargate LLC
Stargate LLC is a Delaware joint venture announced at the White House in January 2025, intending to invest $500 billion over four years in AI infrastructure for OpenAI.
Stargate UAE
Stargate UAE is a 1-gigawatt artificial intelligence compute cluster announced in May 2025, built by Abu Dhabi's G42 and operated by OpenAI and Oracle within a 5-gigawatt UAE–US AI Campus.
Stargazer (aircraft)
Stargazer is a modified Lockheed L-1011 TriStar airliner, built in 1974 for Air Canada and converted in the 1990s, used to air-launch Pegasus rockets on 46 missions through 2026.
StarHub
StarHub is a Singapore info-communications company providing mobile, broadband, entertainment, and enterprise services, the second-largest mobile operator by revenue share, incorporated in 1998 and listed on the Singapore Exchange.
Stari Most
Stari Most, also known as the Old Bridge of Mostar, is a rebuilt 16th-century Ottoman arch bridge in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, destroyed in 1993 and reconstructed in 2004.
STARK
STARK, also known as STARK Defence GmbH or SKD SE, is a Berlin defense-technology company founded in 2024 that makes AI-enabled unmanned systems, including the Virtus loitering munition.
Starlab (space station)
Starlab is a planned commercial space station developed by Starlab Space, a joint venture led by Voyager Technologies with Airbus, scheduled to launch in 2029.
StarLAN
StarLAN was an AT&T local area network technology that carried Ethernet-style traffic over unshielded twisted-pair telephone wiring in a star topology, standardized as IEEE 1BASE5 in 1987.
StarlETH
StarlETH, short for Springy Tetrapod with Articulated Robotic Legs, was a compliant quadruped robot developed at ETH Zurich between 2011 and 2015, predecessor of the commercial robot ANYmal.
StarLight (network)
StarLight is an international optical network exchange facility in Chicago, opened in December 2001 to interconnect research and education networks, including those distributing Large Hadron Collider data.
Starlink
Starlink, also known as SpaceX Starlink, is a satellite internet constellation operated by SpaceX that delivers broadband from thousands of satellites in low Earth orbit, announced in 2015.
Starlite
Starlite is an intumescent heat-resistant material invented by Maurice Ward, a British hairdresser, which survived a blowtorch in a famous 1990 TV demonstration; its secret formula died with him in 2011.
Starlux Airlines
Starlux Airlines (星宇航空) is a Taiwanese full-service international airline founded in 2018 by K.W. Chang and flying commercially since January 2020, rated a Skytrax 5-Star Airline.
StarPlus Energy
StarPlus Energy is a joint venture of Stellantis and Samsung SDI, formed in 2022 to build two battery plants in Kokomo, Indiana, backed by over $6.3 billion in investment and a $7.54 billion federal loan.
StarRocks
StarRocks is an open-source MPP OLAP database and lakehouse query engine forked from Apache Doris in 2020, donated to the Linux Foundation in 2023, with a vectorized engine, cost-based optimizer, and sub-second Iceberg analytics.
Starrucca Viaduct
The Starrucca Viaduct is a stone masonry railroad viaduct completed in 1848 for the New York and Erie Railroad at Lanesboro, Pennsylvania, and still carrying freight today.
Starship flight test 12
Starship flight test 12, also known as Flight 12 or IFT-12, was SpaceX's twelfth Starship test flight and the first of the Version 3 vehicle, launched in 2026 from Starbase, Texas.
Starship flight test 13
Starship flight test 13, SpaceX's thirteenth Starship launch on July 24, 2026, deployed the first Starlink V3 satellites and achieved the first intact upper-stage splashdown.
Starship flight test 14
Starship flight test 14 was the fourteenth test flight of SpaceX's Starship and its first to reach Earth orbit, launching from Starbase, Texas, in September 2026.
Starship HLS
Starship HLS, also known as the Lunar Starship, is a crewed lunar lander SpaceX is developing for NASA to carry two astronauts to the Moon's surface on Artemis missions.
Starship Propellant Transfer Demonstration
NASA Tipping Point-funded SpaceX demonstration moving cryogenic liquid oxygen between tanks on Starship in orbit, first flown March 14, 2024, transferring about 5 metric tons toward future ship-to-ship refueling.
Starship Technologies
Starship Technologies is an Estonian-founded robotics company, started in 2014 by Skype founders Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis, that builds and operates autonomous sidewalk delivery robots.
START (tokamak)
START (Small Tight Aspect Ratio Tokamak) was the world's first hot spherical tokamak, a compact, low-cost fusion experiment at Culham, UK, operating from 1991 to 1998.
Start menu
The Start menu is the launcher element of the Microsoft Windows interface, giving access to applications, files, and settings; it debuted with Windows 95 in 1995.
Start-1
Start-1 (Старт-1) was a Russian four-stage, all-solid-propellant launch vehicle converted from the SS-25 Topol ICBM, which placed small satellites into low Earth orbit from 1993 to 2006.
Start-stop system
The start-stop system, also called idle stop-start, is automotive technology that shuts off a car's engine at a complete stop and restarts it when the driver moves again.
Starter (engine)
A starter, also known as a starter motor, is a mechanism that cranks an engine until it reaches self-sustaining speed, ranging from electric motors to air turbines.