SpaceX prepares Starship for first ever orbital launch Elon Musk hopes to send the world’s biggest rocket around the planet six times in its most ambitious test yet The Independent UK · Sep 22
SpaceX moves closer to securing 700 acres of Texas wildlife refuge land after judge allows swap A federal judge refused to block SpaceX's land swap deal in Texas. Environmental groups are vowing to continue their legal challenge against the exchange. The US Fish and Wildlife Service approved moving forward with the deal in June. The judge found insufficient evidence of ecological risks from the land transfer.… The Economic Times · Sep 22
ETMarkets Smart Talk | From SpaceX to Anthropic: Subho Moulik decodes a step-by-step guide for Indian investors In this edition of ETMarkets Smart Talk, Subho Moulik, Founder & CEO of Appreciate, breaks down the US investing opportunity for Indian investors. The Economic Times · Sep 22
Green light for Elon Musk: Federal judge approves Texas land swap between SpaceX and US government A federal judge has refused to block the Trump administration from giving SpaceX more than 700 acres of wildlife refuge as part of a land swap in Texas The Independent UK · Sep 21
Exchange of land between SpaceX and federal refuge in Texas OK’d despite conservationists’ objections The exchange of 715 acres in the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge for 683 acres of private land is expected to occur Sept. 22. The Texas Tribune · Sep 21
Tesla Wants $50,000 Deposits For A Roadster Nobody Has Seen Yet Tesla reopened reservations for the Roadster. A place in line will cost you $50,000—two weeks before even seeing it. InsideEVs · Sep 21
SpaceX Has Huge, Unusual Put Options Volume - Is SPCX Set to Fall or Rise From Here? SpaceX Corp showed huge, unusual put options volume on Friday, over 82 times the prior volume, in an out-of-the-money (OTM), i.e., lower, strike price. Is this a way to buy SPCX cheaper and get paid? Barchart · Sep 21
NASA Hands SpaceX Another $946 Million. Three More Astronaut Missions Will Fly Through 2030. The new missions will bring SpaceX's total under the contract to 17 operational crew flights. International Business Times · Sep 21
Tesla Is Taking $50,000 Roadster Deposits Again. Only Nine Years Later Tesla Roadster deposits return with a $50,000 deposit that raises questions about pricing and real production timing. Motor1 · Sep 21
The men building AI want us to fear it. We should – but not for the reasons they give Is AI going to run wild and kill us all – or are the concerns lately voiced by the bosses of the AI titans just some kind of convenient business ploy on their part? Those bosses include Dario Amodei of Anthropic, which owns Claude; his rival Sam Altman of OpenAI,… Newslaundry · Sep 21
ETMarkets Smart Talk | From Anthropic to SpaceX: Mehul Vora on AI valuations, IPO hype and investor risks The excitement around AI and high-profile IPOs is undeniable—but the bigger question is whether valuations are being driven by current business economics or expectations of what these companies could become five or ten years from now. The Economic Times · Sep 21
China's Xi Lands in DC With Tech Titans Altman, Huang and Cook in Tow. What Trump Wants from Him. Xi Jinping's first White House visit in 11 years brings AI titans, a $30B tariff plan and an unresolved Nvidia chip standoff. Latin Times · Sep 20
SpaceX and NVIDIA Want to Put AI Data Centers in Orbit Elon Musk is reportedly confident SpaceX will launch NVIDIA's AI chips into orbit by 2027, aiming to build satellite-based data centers, though major technical hurdles remain. MarketBeat · Sep 20
As White House shields the AI gold rush, Trump family and other allies strike it rich – with few guardrails It’s not clear that financial interests are driving White House policy, but they run parallel even as resistance mounts The Guardian - US · Sep 20
Radio France Internationale · Sep 19 Europe weighs the cost of sending its own astronauts into space French President Emmanuel Macron wants Europe to develop its own way of sending astronauts into space within a decade. Europe already builds rockets and satellites and sends astronauts to the International Space Station – but it still relies on American spacecraft to get them there. As the global space sector…
MarketBeat · Sep 19 MarketBeat Week in Review – 09/14 - 09/18 A volatile week saw AI regulation fears hit chip stocks before a recovery, with MarketBeat writers covering Micron, Nike, Tesla, Rocket Lab, Adobe, SpaceX and other stocks ahead of key inflation and jobs data.
Barchart · Sep 18 Elon Musk, Who Became the World’s First Trillionaire, Still Sleeps in a Tiny $50,000 House Where His Mom Uses the Garage — ‘It’s Kinda Awesome Though’ Musk is worth more than $900 billion, but his Texas home is famously modest. His mother, Maye Musk, says she sleeps in the garage when visiting him at Starbase.
The Independent UK · Sep 18 Elon Musk’s data center sued for $30 million by family of worker killed at site The worker plunged to his death from a mezzanine with his family alleging that the area was unsafe, a lawsuit says
Caixin Global · Sep 18 The Week Ahead (Sept. 21-27): U.N. Debate Opens, SpaceX Targets Orbital Starship Flight 2026 World New-Energy Vehicle Congress convenes in Haikou, APEC labor and employment ministers will meet in Nanjing
The Economic Times · Sep 18 The Year of Freak: How an Elon Musk’s SpaceX employee’s big bet on company stock became a $25,000-a-month adventure across Europe and beyond for a year Brian Aggrey and Phoebe Novack are enjoying a year of travel and creative pursuits. They are spending $25,000 monthly on experiences and personal projects. Aggrey previously worked for SpaceX for fourteen years on rocket technology. Their extensive travels include France, Mexico City, and California activities. This financial freedom allows them…
Barchart · Sep 18 SpaceX CFO’s Confidence in Its $100 Billion Goal Grows. Investors Need to Pay Attention Before September 21. SpaceX's CFO is more confident it can hit $100 billion in revenue, and a September 21 index change could lift the stock in the meantime.
International Business Times UK · Sep 18 SpaceX IPO Made This Couple Rich Enough to Quit Their Jobs at 35—Now They're Spending $25K a Month Travelling Former SpaceX engineer Brian Aggrey and Phoebe Novack quit their jobs to travel the world after the company's IPO transformed their stock stake into substantial wealth.
The Economic Times · Sep 18 AI doomsday warnings unlikely to slow IPOs but questions linger Anthropic is expected to beat rival OpenAI to the public markets with a blockbuster IPO later this year despite recent doomsday warnings, but questions remain about their business models and whether regulators should step in. Before the recent headlines over AI safety, Altman and executives at OpenAI had already signaled…
Fortune · Sep 17 OpenAI hires Brian McCarthy from SpaceX as its VP of worldwide sales McCarthy is the first major hire by Dali Rajic, OpenAI's new CRO who joined less than a month ago.
Barchart · Sep 17 Musk Calls $10 Trillion in Starship Revenue ‘Not Impossible.’ Here Are 2 Things You Need to Know About His Bold Projection. Cathie Wood floated $10 trillion in SpaceX revenue by 2030, but the math rests on a launch rate SpaceX is nowhere near.