Trump's Backroom Billionaire: Bezos Meets As SpaceX Fades President Donald Trump reportedly had a private meeting with Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, at the White House last week. Benzinga · Jul 22, 2025
SpaceX launches 2 powerful internet satellites, lands rocket on ship at sea (video) A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched two of SES's O3b mPOWER communications satellites toward medium-Earth orbit today (July 22), then aced its landing on a ship at sea. Space · Jul 22, 2025
SpaceX launches NASA's TRACERS mission to protect Earth from space weather (video) NASA's TRACERS mission blasted off July 23 on a Falcon 9 rocket with three other small agency satellites that will act as technology demonstrators to monitor space weather. Space · Jul 22, 2025
Trump Turns To Jeff Bezos's Project Kuiper As Elon Musk Feud Threatens SpaceX Role In $175 Billion 'Golden Dome' Defense Project: Report The Trump administration is reportedly contemplating other potential partners, including Amazon.com Inc.’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) Project Kuiper, for the Golden Dome missile defense system amid soured ties with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. Benzinga · Jul 22, 2025
SpaceX aborts satellite launch 11 seconds before liftoff (video) SpaceX aborted the planned launch of two of SES' O3b mPOWER communications satellites just before liftoff on Monday evening (July 21). The company will try again tomorrow (July 22). Space · Jul 21, 2025
Trump Administration's Attempt To Cut Elon Musk's SpaceX Contracts Thwarted by Vital Role in Defense and NASA President Donald Trump‘s administration reviewed contracts held by SpaceX with the federal government and found that the majority of these contracts are indispensable to the Defense Department and NASA. Benzinga · Jul 20, 2025
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 169 — The Day Mars Died On Episode 169 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by JPL Chief Engineer Emeritus Rob Manning to look back at the Mariner 4 Mars mission 60 years later. Space · Jul 19, 2025
Friday night light: SpaceX launch from California sends two dozen new Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit (video) A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Friday, July 18, 2025. Space · Jul 19, 2025
'A 1,000-year-plus memory crystal': SPhotonix’s CEO tells us how its glass-based data tech is the future of high-density archival storage We talk durability, density, and the future of data storage with Ilya Kazensky, CEO of SPhotonix. TechRadar · Jul 19, 2025
Space station astronauts bid farewell to private Ax-4 crew | On the ISS this week July 14-18, 2025 The Expedition 73 and Axiom Mission 4 crews wrapped up their time together as science and maintenance activities continued aboard the International Space Station. Space · Jul 18, 2025
Voters Want Third Party Option, But 77% Say 'Not So Much' To Elon Musk, While Trump Approval At 44% A new voter poll shows that people want third-party options as President Donald Trump's approval rating continues to be below 50%. While Elon Musk could be launching a third party, voters are saying no thanks to one from the world's richest man. Benzinga · Jul 17, 2025
Inside Elon Musk’s plan to rain SpaceX’s rocket debris over Hawaii’s pristine waters Texas has long been under threat from the launches and explosions of SpaceX rockets. Now Hawaii is emerging as another possible victim The Guardian - US · Jul 17, 2025
'Doghouse' days of summer — Boeing's Starliner won't fly again until 2026, and without astronauts aboard NASA and Boeing are still working on the thruster issues that Starliner experienced on its first crewed flight last year, and the spacecraft's next mission will likely launch without astronauts. Space · Jul 17, 2025
China developing military space tech ‘breathtakingly fast’ as they threaten to blast ahead of US in space race NASA lay-offs and Chinese ambition are changing the space power balance, writes Chris Stokel-Walker Evening Standard · Jul 17, 2025
PC Gamer · Jul 17, 2025 What the heck is 'AI Appreciation Day'? Turns out it was started by an Elon Musk admirer who camped outside of SpaceX Starbase for a year hoping to talk to the billionaire about AI regulation Some claim that the day was started to promote a movie, but its creator says he wants to encourage ethical AI development.
Benzinga · Jul 17, 2025 Elon Musk Once Revealed How He Comes Up With 'Crazy Ideas' — And Gets Them Off The Ground Even When Funding Is Scarce Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk once explained how he turns bold ideas into reality, even when starting with little to no funding.
Benzinga · Jul 16, 2025 SoFi's Comeback Is Minting ETF Winners—These Funds Let You Ride The Rally Without The Risk Following a volatile period after SPAC listing, SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ:SOFI) has made an impressive resurgence in 2025, posting a whopping 176% one-year return and rising more than 43% in just the last month alone.
Benzinga · Jul 16, 2025 Elon Musk's SpaceX Commits $2 Billion To xAI In $5 Billion Round As AI Startup Hits $113 Billion Valuation Amid Controversy SpaceX has agreed to invest $2 billion in Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI. The investment makes up nearly half of the company's recent $5 billion equity round, according to investors cited by The Wall Street Journal.
International Business Times · Jul 16, 2025 Amazon Teams Up with Elon Musk's SpaceX in Rare Satellite Launch Deal Amazon partners with SpaceX to launch 24 Kuiper satellites, marking a rare collaboration between tech rivals in the growing satellite internet race.
Benzinga · Jul 16, 2025 Elon Musk's 'Muskonomy' Strategy Could Take A 'Toll' On Tesla, Potentially Delaying Innovation, Warn Experts Elon Musk‘s strategy to leverage resources across his business empire, including Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA), SpaceX, and xAI, has sparked investor concerns, particularly after a recent controversy involving chatbot Grok.
Benzinga · Jul 16, 2025 Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev Defends Tokenizing Elon Musk's SpaceX, Sam Altman's OpenAI: 'They Were A Little Bit Upset…' Vlad Tenev, the CEO of Robinhood Markets Inc. (NASDAQ:HOOD), is defending his company’s bold move to give retail investors exposure to shares in high-profile private companies such as SpaceX and OpenAI, without seeking their permission.
Space · Jul 16, 2025 SpaceX launches 26 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit from California A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 26 Starlink internet satellites into low Earth orbit after lifting off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on July 15, 2025.
Space · Jul 15, 2025 SpaceX launches 3rd batch of satellites for Amazon's Project Kuiper megaconstellation (video) SpaceX launched 24 of Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband satellites early Wednesday morning (July 16), the 56th anniversary of the Apollo 11 liftoff.
Space · Jul 15, 2025 Revenge of the Savage Planet is an 'upbeat, optimistic dystopia' that pulls no punches on our corporate overlords (interview) 'We had an idea for a meat planet' — Revenge of the Savage Planet game director Alex Hutchinson talks strange new worlds and mocking corporate spaceflight.
InsideEVs · Jul 15, 2025 Lucid CEO Warns New Cars Are About To Get More Expensive: 'No Other Way Around It' Today on Critical Materials: Lucid CEO issues a price warning, Musk's companies infuse cash into xAI and Hyundai will ride out tariffs with cheap cars.