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SpaceX tells the FAA it plans 10,000 launches a year. The airlines want launches at off-peak hours
SpaceX’s FAA filing says it expects 10,000 launches a year and that air traffic rules are now the limit. Airlines for America wants launches at low-traffic times.
Every new Tesla can now power tools from its charge port. Here’s what 2.4 kW gets you
Tesla says every new Model 3, Model Y and Cybertruck can now run tools from the charge port. Which cars qualify, the $80 adapter, and how 2.4 kW compares.
SpaceX’s Raptor engines, explained: from 185 tons to Raptor 4’s 300
Musk says Raptor 4 will make 300 t of thrust. How full-flow staged combustion works, Raptor 1–3 side by side, the deleted heat shield, and the Saturn V math. With our film.
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Vandenberg just broke its launch record with two months to spare
Vandenberg says a Falcon 9 Starlink launch on 27 Oct was its 72nd of 2026, beating 2025’s 71. The pace math, the 26-flight booster, and the 100-a-year goal.
easyJet said Starlink’s numbers didn’t work. Nine months later it’s putting it on its whole Airbus fleet
In January easyJet’s CEO said Starlink’s economics weren’t working. On 26 Oct it said Starlink goes on 277 A320-family jets from 2027. What changed, and the Apollo link.
Verizon says Starlink Mobile needs up to $500 billion and 4 to 6 years. Musk says 2 or 3
Verizon’s CEO put a $300B–$500B, four-to-six-year price on a SpaceX phone network on 26 Oct. Musk replied “2 or 3 years.” What each side said, and the math.
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SpaceX’s $40 billion GPU deal is four times the old record. Musk called it closed; the filing says not yet
SpaceX’s 8-K, filed 26 Oct, shows a binding commitment for a ~$40B Apollo-managed GPU lease. The rate isn’t set and closing is expected before year-end.
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Latvia approves Tesla’s supervised FSD, making it 10 EU countries. Here’s what drivers there are getting
Latvia’s CSDD accepted the Dutch approval on 26 Oct, with tighter speed and driver-monitoring rules. Tesla says rollout begins soon; no date or Latvian price yet.
Musk says Grok Bot can now phone a business for you. Here’s what’s confirmed and what isn’t
Musk says the Bot can call a person or business and send you a summary. Prerelease builds show a Calls panel; the official changelog doesn’t mention calling yet.
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Booster 22 just fired all 33 engines. Here’s what still stands between Starship and its first double catch
SpaceX confirmed a full-duration 33-engine static fire for Flight 15’s booster on 25 Oct. Ship 42, the FAA licence and a launch date are still open.
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Starlink now has more subscribers than AT&T Fiber. Here’s what that does and doesn’t mean
SpaceX’s 10-Q shows 13.6M Starlink consumer subscribers; AT&T reported 13.31M fiber connections. Starlink added 6.4M in a year to AT&T’s 2.5M, with caveats.
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Tesla’s Texas Robotaxi fleet hits 938 as Austin rides reach the F1 track until 1am
135 cars added to the Texas registry in eight days, most of them Cybercabs, and Austin’s map now reaches the F1 track, with rides until 1am.
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Grok Imagine’s Odyssey Episode 1 is out. Can Musk’s full-length movie still land this year?
A 7-minute, 4K first episode is out. Musk’s full-length Odyssey movie is still a pledge with a 31 Dec deadline. The timeline and the math.
Starship will now push Orion to the Moon. What NASA’s new Artemis IV plan changes, and a first look inside Cabin 1
NASA dropped the halo-orbit meetup. Starship will dock with Orion near Earth and fly both to low lunar orbit. Plus Cabin 1, the tanker count and SpaceX’s milestone chart.
One customer paid a third of SpaceX’s bills last quarter. Here’s what the 10-Q adds to that $4.4 billion profit
SpaceX’s 10-Q shows one unnamed customer was 34.5% of Q3 revenue, and about $1 billion of the profit came from one-off items.
Trump says Musk “put it back.” Ukraine’s drone pilots say their tests show the Starshield speed cap is still there
Trump said Musk had restored Ukraine’s service. Ukraine’s drone pilots and Zelenskyy say the cap is still in place. What was claimed, what was tested and what’s unanswered.
SpaceX wants at least 80,000 US cell sites for Starlink Mobile. That’s about half of America’s cell towers
Bloomberg says SpaceX is in talks for at least 80,000 US cell sites, including with Crown Castle. What’s signed, what’s only talks, and the numbers behind it.
NASA’s safety panel says one Starship Moon landing needs about 22 launches. Musk says 6 to 8. Here’s the math behind both numbers
A NASA safety adviser says the latest refueling estimate is “around 22” launches; Musk says 6 to 8. What each number means per tanker, and how long each takes to fly.
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Grok Bot can now use your phone’s Calendar, Messages, Contacts and Home apps. Here’s what each permission unlocks
Rolling out on iOS and Android: the six phone permissions in @bot’s screen, from Calendar to door locks, and what hasn’t been said yet.
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SpaceX passed on three Space Force launches, and no other rocket company bid either. Here’s every option the military has left
Politico says SpaceX declined to bid and no rival offered a rocket. Vulcan was grounded this year, New Glenn lost its pad, and the newer rockets haven’t flown yet.
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Tesla just put a SpaceX merger committee in an SEC filing. Its $2 billion SpaceX stake is already up $863 million
Tesla’s Q3 10-Q makes the SpaceX special committee official. Tesla’s $2.0B SpaceX stake was worth $2.87B on 30 Sep, and SpaceX bought $626M of Megapacks this year.
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The US ambassador says Musk offered Starlink to 500 South African schools. Starlink’s own letter says 5,000
The 30% rule covers a local licensee, not “the company.” And Starlink has never applied for a licence.
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Tesla is ditching outside maps for its own AI maps. Its fleet’s 15.8 billion FSD miles are the whole bet
Tesla’s AI chief says FSD will stop relying on other companies’ maps, starting with V15. I put 15.8 billion FSD miles next to Street View, Waymo and every US road.
Tesla’s Q3: profit fell 43%, but $1.5 billion of cash came back. Where the money went, and every promise now on the clock
Revenue flat at $28.05B, GAAP net income down 43% as R&D jumped 69%, and free cash flow back at $1.53B. I took apart the cash, the capex math and every new date from the call.
Tesla’s first Robotaxi safety report: 3.1 million miles, zero injuries. What the zeros prove, and what they don’t
No injuries, airbag deployments or pedestrians hit in 3.1 million driverless miles. I ran the odds on each zero and put it next to Waymo’s 271 million miles.
Musk says Terafab’s output will rank in the top 20 of world GDP. I checked the math
That’s about $1.14 trillion a year: roughly 69% of the 2026 world chip market and six times TSMC’s pace. What’s on file, what’s reported, and what the math requires.
SpaceX just put dates on Starship’s next five steps. Here’s each one next to the old target, and the launch caps the plan runs into
A double catch on Flight 15 next month, a reflown ship and orbital refuelling early in 2027, then weekly flights. Each date checked against earlier targets and the FAA launch caps.
Who throttled Ukraine’s Starshield? Three accounts of one speed cap, and what’s actually confirmed
The Wall Street Journal reports Musk ordered the cap. Musk said the US military decides, and Trump says he’d like to find out. What’s confirmed, what’s alleged, and the November 2 deadline.
SpaceX Q3 results: $14.6B revenue and a $4.4B profit as AI becomes the biggest business
Revenue of $14.58B beat the $12.72B estimate, with $4.40B in net income. AI brought in more than Starlink for the first time, and capex hit $19.59B.
No, Canada isn’t cutting off Starlink. Here’s what Carney actually said, and why Telesat still needs SpaceX
The viral claim stitches an August military contract to a September quote. There’s no ban, and Canada’s rival network launches on SpaceX rockets.
Tesla Q3 preview: the cash burn, what’s at stake for the stock, and the SpaceX merger talk
Results landed after the US close on Wed 21 Oct. Why free cash flow is expected to be negative, the bull and bear cases for the stock, and what has actually been said about a SpaceX merger.
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SpaceX Q3 preview: Wall Street expects $12.7B in revenue, AI now the biggest piece
Written before the results. Analysts expected $12.72B in revenue and 13c a share, with AI forecast as the biggest segment.
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Fans, thrusters and Optimus legs: Tesla’s Roadster engineer takes Hagerty under the skin
Lars Moravy on the 1 MW rear-drive powertrain, the fan “sucker” system, an Optimus-actuated wing and SpaceX cold-gas thrusters, and what’s still a target.
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Grok Bot now works from the iPhone Action Button
App 1.16 lets iPhone 15 Pro and newer start a Bot voice chat with one press. The setup, who qualifies, and two weeks of updates.
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ARK’s $4,400 Tesla target comes with a smaller robotaxi forecast
ARK’s new 2031 model lifts its target from $2,600, but its robotaxi revenue range came down. Optimus, storage and margins fill the gap.
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Tesla’s December vote: three items, no shareholder proposals
The 2026 proxy: re-elect Musk, Denholm and Straubel, say-on-pay and PwC on 3 Dec. Last year’s ballot had 14 items.
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Europe’s big four carriers eye Starlink’s satellite airwaves
A letter of intent to explore a joint EU 2 GHz bid, an EU proposal still awaiting approval, and a US warning of “devastating” retaliation.
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Musk pledges a SpaceX share to every kid in America
One share each for about 72 million children is worth roughly $10.5 billion. How it compares, and how it could work.
SpaceX rents out its compute, but can’t rent any itself
Musk says AWS, Google Cloud “or anyone” had no inference capacity, while SpaceX leases GPUs to Google and Anthropic.
SpaceX reports Tuesday, Tesla Wednesday, then 1.3B shares unlock
SpaceX reported on Tue 20 Oct and Tesla on Wed 21 Oct, then up to 1.3 billion SpaceX shares were due to unlock on Thu 22 Oct.
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Tuesday’s Falcon 9 carries SpaceX’s second Starfall test
Bandwagon-5 flies 32 payloads, including two capsules built to come home: Varda’s W-7 and SpaceX’s Starfall.
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Tesla Robotaxi now runs until midnight in Austin
An app alert pushed Austin’s day to 6am–midnight. Texas registrations passed 800, and all 34 new cars are Model Ys.
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Texas weighed selling Boca Chica State Park to SpaceX
A draft agenda listed a closed-door 1,300-acre sale. Sources say SpaceX is the buyer; the state says it’s off November’s agenda.
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Grok Bot says it’s 3x faster, adds Robinhood and Coinbase
The speed figure is the company’s own claim. What’s new, and what to check before you connect a brokerage.
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X will bar “ugly” and “shrill” advertisers
Musk’s new ad “esthetic standard” vs Google’s and Meta’s rules: vaguer test, tougher penalty.
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Starlink answers Reliance: “ready to connect India”
Three licensees, none selling yet. The real gate is a Home Ministry security review, then spectrum pricing.
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Slovakia approves FSD, the 9th EU country
Nine EU yeses, but only ~14% of the EU's people. An EU-wide approval needs 65%.
EU fast-tracks Project Bromo vs SpaceX
€6.5B Airbus–Leonardo–Thales merger vs Starlink’s 11,000+ satellites — the scale gap.
Tesla’s new Roadster flew
Upside down on a ramp, over five Teslas, 0–60 under 0.59s. $50,000 to reserve, production 2028.
Southwest puts Starlink on every plane
Full fleet by fall 2027, setting up a race with United to finish first.
Star Mind computer hits volume production next year
Musk puts a year on the orbital AI computer SpaceX is building with Nvidia.
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Dragon docks with the station’s last new solar arrays
CRS-35 arrived half an hour early with 6,300+ lb of cargo and health experiments.
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Starlink on nearly half of United’s flights
635+ jets, 250,000+ passengers a day, and a tracker for your flight.
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SpaceX will ‘make you whole’ if Grok Bot shops wrong
Musk’s refund promise vs Grok Bot Terms that put the risk on you.
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Roadster day preview: Musk promised a “BANGER”
Musk’s hype, and the physics and safety of cold-gas thrusters.
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Barclays: Tesla–SpaceX merger “consensus”
Analyst speculation: an all-stock deal before Tesla’s AGM.
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The Tesla dream scenario
Optimus, Cybercab, a thruster Roadster and a truck for Mars: what's real, and what could be.
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Grok Voice 3.0 tops speech-to-speech at 86.9
Already running ~20,000 Starlink support calls a day, ~70% with no human.
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319 Cybercabs, six weeks: what the Texas numbers really tell us
Registered isn’t running. The S-curve, the NHTSA deadline and what to watch next.
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Powerwalls help set a 745 MW home-battery record
Tesla and Sunrun sent enough power to California's grid for every home in San Francisco and San Jose at peak.
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Roadster livestream: Thu 8:55pm ET (5:55pm PT)
What to watch for: the 1.1-second 0-60 claim, the 2017 targets and "Timing is everything."
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Roadster's promised SpaceX cold-gas thrusters
About 10 thrusters and a claimed 1.1s 0-60, ahead of the 15 Oct reveal.
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33 Raptor 3s: about 18 million pounds of thrust
Super Heavy makes roughly 2.4 times a Saturn V's thrust, the most powerful rocket ever flown.
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Model Y alone outsold the next nine US EV brands
99,037 Model Ys in Q3; Tesla took 54% of US EV sales, per Cox / KBB.
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Dragon flies the last of the station's 8 new solar wings
CRS-35 launched at 6:33am ET (3:33am PT); Dragon has carried every one of them.
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Booster B1088 flies and lands for a 20th time
Starlink 15-25 from Vandenberg, landing on Of Course I Still Love You.
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The X Subscription: Grok, Cursor and X Premium in one plan
Five tiers from free to $200 a month; Grok Bot starts at $30.
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Roadster reveal set for 15 Oct (preview)
Nine years after the 2017 unveil promised 0-60 in 1.9 seconds. Start time not yet announced.
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668 Falcon booster landings
B1103 made it 668 on Saturday. CRS-35 followed on Tuesday 13 Oct, with B1096 landing at LZ-40.
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Automations app spotted in Europe
“If this, then that” for your Tesla, seen on one car in Europe. Not confirmed by Tesla.
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FSD fleet passes 15.4 billion miles
About 35 million supervised miles a day, per Tesla’s safety report.
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SpaceX runs 2 of every 3 working satellites
11,143 Starlinks vs 5,770 for the rest of the world, per McDowell’s catalogue.
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Cybercab lands in Europe for Paris
Production Cybercab on show in Hall 7.1, stand C25. Static display, no rides.
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Headlights that aim themselves
2026.38 adds Dynamic Headlight Leveling on select Model 3 and Cybertruck.
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Ship catch in 4–6 weeks
Elon says Flight 15 will try to catch the ship itself for the first time.
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Assisted Driving Basic, €99
FSD Supervised renamed in Europe. Same stack, a name for the forms.
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Ship 40 is home: inside the first Starship returned to Starbase
Flight 13, an intact splashdown, a 75-day trip home and a Megabay at Starbase.
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