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Oh man. I just listened to the $TSLA call and it’s very cringe-worthy. Tesla was up ~4% on what seemed like a beat before the call and after the call, the stock ended down. Tomorrow might be even worse as people start to digest all the info. Energy business, which was supposed to be growing …
(Bloomberg) — Sales of Tesla Inc.’s Cybertruck have been propped up in recent months by Elon Musk’s other companies, an unusual arrangement that further indicates the polarizing pickup is failing to appeal to everyday buyers. SpaceX, the Musk-led rocket and satellite maker, accounted for 1,279 — or more than 18% — of the 7,071 Cybertrucks …
BREAKING: SpaceX has boosted its target IPO valuation to above $2 trillion, per Bloomberg. This would make SpaceX bigger than all but 5 companies in the S&P 500. pic.twitter.com/hUZRFY2N6Y — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) April 2, 2026
X factor: Elon Musk himself. And not just the part about him seeking to simultaneously run two of the world’s most valuable companies. Musk hasn’t been part of an IPO since Tesla in 2010. At the time, he was fairly quiet on social media. In fact, his first-ever tweet was just a couple of weeks …
Elon Musk reveals SpaceX to focus on ‘self-growing city’ on the moon instead of Mars https://t.co/0okAiCEnW6 pic.twitter.com/KbMLcX4leq — New York Post (@nypost) February 9, 2026 Elon Musk revealed that his rocket-launch firm SpaceX is now focused on building a “self-growing city” of humans on the moon – backing away from his plans to launch a …
Following the Tesla Cybertruck his friends had climbed into late one night around Thanksgiving last year, Matthew Riordan spotted a fire blazing in the distance. The Cybertruck had crashed into a tree and wedged itself against a retaining wall, trapping his friends inside the burning car. He rushed to pull them from a growing blaze …
USA remains 64% of global equity market cap GS pic.twitter.com/rB5LmBjld1 — Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT 🍖 (@MikeZaccardi) October 20, 2025 SpaceX is essentially the US space program https://t.co/rpYnDnna4z pic.twitter.com/f6B0OOmYiP — Robin (@xdNiBoR) October 19, 2025
IFT-11 occurred as twilight was fading in Florida, but Starship had line of sight to the sun, illuminating the exhaust and the vehicle over the curve of the Earth. Here is my tracking footage captured with an 11″ Celestron NexStar GPS and Blackmagic Pocket Cinema 4K camera, as well as an Orion ST-80 and Canon …
Robinhood built OpenAI and SpaceX tokens with no equity rights. CEO says it doesn’t matter. OpenAI rejects the deal. This is synthetic ownership rebranded as access.
Robinhood just dropped a product that’s already drawing heat. On July 1, the company launched blockchain-based tokens tied to the valuations of OpenAI and SpaceX. These aren’t shares. They don’t come with voting rights. They don’t grant ownership. They’re synthetic contracts built on Arbitrum that track price movement. That’s the pitch. The tokens are only …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA4hJE8Fu_g SpaceX Starship during static fire testing explodes and is in flames.
Elon Musk’s fortune has soared to an estimated $430 billion, cementing his status as the world’s wealthiest individual by a staggering margin. His closest competitor, Mark Zuckerberg, holds $224 billion, making Musk’s wealth nearly double that of the Meta CEO. The numbers tell the story. Musk’s empire spans Tesla, SpaceX, X Corp, Neuralink, and The …
SpaceX is gearing up to change the game in internet speed. The Starlink Gigabit Dish is set to deliver lightning-fast internet speeds—up to 2 gigabits per second—a massive leap from the 200 Mbps many users are accustomed to. 🚨SPACEX PREPARES STARLINK GIGABIT DISH FOR LIGHTNING-FAST INTERNET SpaceX is developing a new Starlink dish designed to …
NASA, SpaceX launches mission to International Space Station to retrieve Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore. “NASA and SpaceX launched NASA’s Crew-10 astronauts to the International Space Station on Friday night in a mission that will also aim to return Starliner astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore. In a clear night sky, the launch went off as planned …
Chinese launch startup secures early funding for fully reusable rocket plane. Nayuta Space is developing a series of stainless steel rockets named Black Bird, referring to a creature from Chinese mythology rather than the common blackbird. The Xuanniao-1 (Black Bird-1) will use nine Canglong-1 methane-liquid oxygen engines developed by Beijing Aerospace Propulsion Technology Co. Ltd., …
https://www.investors.com/news/technology/palantir-anduril-talks-openai-elon-musk-spacex-defense-giants/ Palantir Technologies (PLTR) and startup Anduril are talking with many other tech companies, including OpenAI and Elon Musk’s SpaceX, to form a consortium to jointly bid on U.S. government contracts, The Financial Times reported Sunday. The aim is to take on traditional defense giants such as Lockheed Martin (LMT), Northrop Grumman (NOC), Boeing (BA) …
The European Commission has been investigating X for several potential breaches of the Digital Services Act, newly introduced rules meant to ensure platforms police illegal content. The EU is leading a global crackdown on harmful online content and disinformation that’s sparked increasingly vocal responses from Musk, who has said such measures restrict free speech. The …
PARIS — The Federal Aviation Administration announced its intent to fine SpaceX more than $633,000 for violating its launch licenses on two occasions in 2023, a decision SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said he will fight in court. The FAA announced Sept. 17 that it notified SpaceX of $633,009 in proposed fines for violating terms of …
***Update… At some point they will open the capsule and do the spacewalk. Will try to catch it when it goes LIVE. Launch is at 04:45:00 on Replay… Watch live as Falcon 9 launches the @PolarisProgram’s Polaris Dawn crew on a multi-day mission orbiting Earth https://t.co/u1KqQx5AFr — SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 10, 2024 h/t MT Ballsack
In the new study, published Aug. 26 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, researchers revealed that the second explosion temporarily created a large hole in the ionosphere — the part of the atmosphere between 50 and 400 miles (80 and 650 kilometers) above Earth’s surface where gases have been ionized, or stripped of electrons, and …
The carriers tell the FCC that a SpaceX proposal to ensure robust coverage for its cellular Starlink system risks causing interference with their own networks. A SpaceX proposal to ensure its cellular Starlink system offers robust coverage to users is facing opposition from AT&T and Verizon over concerns it’ll cause interference on their networks. “Specifically, AT&T’s technical …
SpaceX, the aerospace manufacturer founded by Elon Musk, is currently developing a network of spy satellites for a U.S. intelligence agency. This initiative, which underscores the growing partnership between SpaceX and national security agencies, involves constructing hundreds of satellites under a classified contract valued at $1.8 billion with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), according to …
A robotic lunar lander built by private aerospace company Intuitive Machines was successfully launched by SpaceX on Thursday, with hopes of being the first American spacecraft to successfully touch down on the Moon’s surface since the 1972 Apollo 17 mission. The Nova-C lander named “Odysseus” was carried into orbit by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, …
