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SpaceX has successfully launched French satellite communications provider Eutelsat’s Hotbird 13G satellite, chipping away at a jam-packed November manifest and completing Falcon 9’s 50th launch of 2022. The company’s workhorse rocket lifted off from its Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ...

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket back in action after a three-year hiatus

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy has continued a streak of successful dual-booster landings during its first attempted launch directly to geostationary orbit, a mission that was also the rocket’s first launch in more than three years. Known as USSF-44 and initially scheduled ...

Elon Musk explains Twitter’s planned paid subscription for verified users

In a response to comments from noted horror novelist Stephen King, Tesla CEO Elon Musk explained Twitter’s planned paid subscription for its verified users. Musk also considered adjusting the price for the service. Recent reports have indicated that Elon ...

Twitter will not change its commitment to brand safety says Elon Musk

Elon Musk said on Monday that Twitter’s commitment to brand safety is unchanged. This was in response to a statement issued by the World Federation of Advertisers and the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM). The organization said that ...

SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket rolls to pad for Tuesday launch, dual booster landing

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket has rolled out to Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A for its first launch (and dual booster landing) in almost three and a half years. Missing its payload fairing and the US Space Force’s classified USSF-44 ...

SpaceX still an option for future Amazon internet satellite launches, says Senior VP

An Amazon executive says that the company could still call on SpaceX to launch some of its Project Kuiper internet satellites after two of the three unproven rockets it purchased announced launch delays days apart. Amazon began work on Project ...

SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket passes static fire test three years in the making

After knocking out some figurative cobwebs, SpaceX has test-fired a Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time since June 2019. Shortly before the static fire, NASASpaceflight’s Thomas Burghardt reported that Falcon Heavy’s first launch in 40 months – a mission ...

SpaceX bests Boeing to become NASA’s largest for-profit vendor

Fourteen years after winning its first major NASA contract, data shared by Aviation Week reporter Irene Klotz shows that SpaceX has usurped every other major aerospace company in the US to become the space agency’s largest for-profit vendor. SpaceX’s ascension ...

Tesla Model Y bodies ready for megacasts at Giga Berlin

Tesla Gigafactory Berlin has started producing Model Y bodies ready for front megacasts and structural battery packs. Tesla gigafactory in Germany is steadily ramping up Model Y production in Europe. Giga Berlin already hit a 2,000-per-week run rate in ...

Tesla lowers price China made Model 3 & Model Ys.

Tesla lowered its starting prices for its made-in-China Model 3 and Model Y vehicles according to listings posted on its website. These are the first cuts by Tesla this year and follow Tesla’s offer of limited incentives to customers ...

SpaceX to launch Europe’s next deep space telescope, first asteroid orbiter

On October 17th, a NASA official speaking at an Astrophysics Advisory Committee meeting revealed that the European Space Agency (ESA) had begun “exploring options” and studying the feasibility of launching the Euclid near-infrared space telescope on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. ...

SpaceX assembles Falcon Heavy rocket for first launch in 40 months

SpaceX has assembled the fourth Falcon Heavy for the rocket’s first launch in 40 months. A photo shared by SpaceX on October 23rd shows that it has mated Falcon Heavy’s three first stage boosters together while preparing for prelaunch testing. ...

SpaceX Starlink might get funds from EU to pay for service in Ukraine

Starlink Funds for Services in Ukraine Starlink Service funded by the EU Recently, 27 foreign ministers representing countries in the European Union (EU) discussed Starlink services in Ukraine. They talked about funding Starlink to maintain telecommunications systems in Ukraine. ...

Efforts to bring Starlink terminals to Iran expected to scale up.

Starlink terminals are in Iran, and efforts to bring more in are expected to scale up. On Thursday, a video of a Starlink terminal in Iran was shared on Instagram by Manoto TV. On Friday, it was confirmed that ...

SpaceX rolls out Starship, stacks world’s largest rocket, and aces Starlink launch hours apart

In 15 hours, SpaceX has rolled a new Starship to its South Texas launch and test facilities, reassembled the world’s largest rocket, launched Starlink satellites to orbit, and recovered a reused Falcon 9 booster in port. The burst of ...

Video of Starlink terminal in Iran shared on Instagram

A video of a Starlink terminal in Iran was recently shared on Instagram. In September, Elon Musk and the team at SpaceX showed support for the Iranian people by granting them access to Starlink internet after the Iranian government shut ...

Tesla aims to produce 50K Tesla Semi in 2024, could become one of US’ largest truck makers

If there were one upcoming product that Tesla truly discussed during the Q3 2022 earnings call, it would be the Tesla Semi. Elon Musk and Tesla executives shared a lot of interesting tidbits of information about the Class 8 all-electric ...

Tesla Semi will achieve 500-mile range while hauling cargo, confirms Musk

When the Tesla Semi was unveiled back in late 2017, many were skeptical. A Daimler executive even went so far as to sarcastically comment that the massive all-electric vehicle defies the laws of physics. Doubts were abounding about whether ...

SpaceX ready for 30th Starlink launch of 2022

SpaceX is on track to launch its 30th Starlink mission of 2022 later this morning. No earlier than (NET) 10:50 am EDT (14:50 UTC) on Thursday, October 20th, a Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off from SpaceX’s Cape ...

Tesla expects to fully meet Inflation Reduction Act requirements

Tesla confirmed efforts to meet requirements for the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). During the recent earnings call a TSLA shareholder asked to elaborate on Tesla’s ability to meet the requirements for consumer tax credit eligibility under the Inflation Reduction Act. ...

SpaceX slashes base price of smallsat rideshare program, adds “Plates”

SpaceX has rolled out an upgraded version of its Rideshare program that will allow even more small satellite operators to send their spacecraft to orbit for extremely low prices. SpaceX threw its hat into the growing ring of smallsat launch ...

Pentagon considers paying for Ukraine’s Starlink after Musk withdraws funding request

During the weekend, Elon Musk announced that SpaceX is withdrawing its request to the Pentagon to help keep Ukraine’s Starlink satellite internet service running. Musk noted that SpaceX would continue funding Ukraine’s satellite internet out of pocket even if ...

European spacecraft converge on the US for rides on SpaceX rockets

Thanks in large part to delays suffered by Arianespace’s next-generation Ariane 6 rocket, a small fleet of European satellites are simultaneously converging on the United States to hitch rides into orbit with SpaceX. SpaceX launching European payloads is nothing ...

SpaceX, NASA targeting separate Moon launches days apart

NASA and a SpaceX customer have announced plans to launch two unrelated Moon missions days apart next month. On October 12th, NASA confirmed that it will roll its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket out to its Kennedy Space Center LC-39A ...

EnerStar partners with Starlink to provide broadband to remote customers

EnerStar Solutions is partnering with Starlink to add broadband to its list of services for customers, with a focus on those in the most remote regions of Pennsylvania. The company will use the entire suite of Starlink’s land-based enterprise ...

SpaceX announced Starship 2nd commercial spaceflight first two crewmembers

SpaceX announced the first two crew members of Starship’s second commercial spaceflight around the Moon. Entrepreneur Dennis Tito and his wife, Akiko, purchased seats on a private trip on Starship. The couple joined SpaceX’s mission to contribute to its ...

SpaceX fully stacks Starship rocket for the first time in six months

For the first time in more than six months, SpaceX has stacked both stages of its next-generation Starship rocket, creating the largest and most powerful launch vehicle ever fully assembled. It’s not the first time. SpaceX has conducted three other ...

Tesla Model S and Model X vehicles approved for tax exemption in China

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) recently released the next batch of electric vehicles eligible for the vehicle purchase tax exemption. The list included the refresh Tesla Model S and Model X. According to the MIIT catalog, the ...

SpaceX’s first Falcon Heavy launch in three years eyes late-October liftoff

For the second time in 2022, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket has a firm launch date for the first time in more than three years. Cursed by a seemingly relentless flood of delays impacting almost every one of the rocket’s payloads, ...

Starlink now available in Japan

Starlink is now available in Japan, SpaceX announced Monday, adding that Japan is the first Asian country to access Starlink. In September 2021, KDDI Corporation announced that it chose Starlink to deliver its high-speed, low-latency broadband internet to its ...

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