Starship
Starship Flight 15 is now targeted for no earlier than November 12, after Booster 22 and Ship 42 completed static-fire tests; it is meant to attempt the first catch of both stages. SpaceX is also…
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Orbital data centers / space compute (Starmind lineage)
Google's Suncatcher prototype, launched October 1, booted four TPUs in orbit and ran its Gemma 4 model, returning a generated answer. A rival Indian orbital data center and a power-beaming prototype…
Starlink in Ukraine
Ukrainian officials say SpaceX slowed Starlink service used by military drones, with the order reported to come from the White House, and Ukrainian forces temporarily lost some access to Starshield,…
Falcon 9 retirement
SpaceX is winding down commercial Falcon 9 launches as Starship takes over, closing new commercial reservations and ending retail Transporter and Bandwagon rideshare bookings after the 2028 manifest,…
The reported Tesla–SpaceX merger exploration and its open questions
Independent committees are exploring a possible Tesla-SpaceX merger, with Optimus, AI investment and shared engineering as open questions. Tesla’s October 21 earnings call did not address it, no deal…
Anthropic is SpaceX's largest customer — 34.5% of the Q3 10-Q's $14.6B quarter
SpaceX's mystery "Customer B" is Anthropic, which accounted for 34.5% of the company's $14.6 billion in Q3 2026 revenue and became its largest customer. That quarter's revenue was up 161% from 2025,…
Russia's Starlink alternative: Putin calls Musk a "genius" and discloses "close contact"
Russian President Vladimir Putin has publicly called Elon Musk a genius and said the two are in close contact, as Russia develops its own alternative to Starlink. The backdrop is the…
Starbase Louisiana: SpaceX's $100B Gulf Coast spaceport
SpaceX plans a $100 billion, ten-pad Starship launch site on roughly 125,000 acres in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, targeting construction in 2027 and a first launch in 2029, though the realistic date…
Starfall: SpaceX's commercial reentry/manufacturing service
SpaceX's Starfall reentry capsule is building a customer manifest for returning manufactured payloads from orbit, with Exolaunch and Space Cargo Unlimited booking Starship missions in 2028 and 2029.…
Starlink Mobile
SpaceX has FCC approval for Starlink Mobile covering up to 15,000 next-generation satellites, plus a waiver to serve phones without a traditional wireless carrier, and it has bought about $8 billion…
SpaceX earnings and financing
SpaceX, listed since June, reported third-quarter revenue up 161% on October 20 and a $4.4 billion net profit, with AI-compute revenue of $7.6 billion passing Starlink's. Musk says SpaceX has closed…
Terafab: Musk's chip gigafab (compute for robots + space data centers)
Tesla and SpaceX are planning a huge chip campus in Grimes County, Texas, to supply chips for robots and space data centers, with Intel's 14A process named. Permits, tax incentives and foundations…
Tesla Roadster
Tesla demonstrated a Roadster that can hop and fly, and Tesla has claimed 0-60 mph in 0.81 seconds while an executive said 0.55 seconds is possible. Skeptics including Yann LeCun argue the…
Starlink for rural schools: Bolivia's 85 La Paz municipalities
Bolivia's Aula Conectada has signed Starlink agreements to bring satellite internet to schools in 85 La Paz municipalities, part of a wider push for satellite education across Latin America. The…
Musk's pledge to give every US child one SpaceX share in 2027
Elon Musk pledged on October 19 to give one of his SpaceX shares to every child in America next year, calling it the first of many and saying shares given directly to people are stakes in the future…