Video · SpaceX Desk
Starship Booster 22 on Pad 2 for Flight 15 static fire
Starship Booster 22 is on Starbase Pad 2 but hasn't fired yet. A Starbase order closes roads Sunday, Texas time, for a planned static fire.
SpaceX correspondent
Harper Quinn
SpaceX desk
Harper Quinn covers the SpaceX desk, with 20 stories on Starship, Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy and the Starlink network. Quinn reported Starship reaching orbit and releasing 26 Starlink satellites, booster B1063's 35th flight, and Falcon Heavy's first mission for the NRO. Quinn also writes the plain-English explainers on Starship and Starlink.
SpaceX Desk
SpaceX seeks 80,000 cell sites as carriers lobby the FCC
SpaceX wants at least 80,000 US cell sites for Starlink Mobile, Bloomberg reports. AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile want two 5G bands kept from satellites.
Video · Game Reviews
Modern Warfare 4 launches today without Game Pass
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 launched on 23 October with 20 multiplayer maps and 33 weapons. It won't join Game Pass until Holiday 2027.
United States
Trump signs Mystic Alerts Act for satellite phone warnings
The Mystic Alerts Act became law on 22 October. It lets US carriers send emergency alerts by satellite when cell towers fail, after the 2025 Texas floods.
SpaceX Desk
US envoy warns EU of retaliation over Starlink spectrum
US ambassador Andrew Puzder warns of "devastating" retaliation if the EU limits 2 GHz satellite spectrum for non-EU firms such as Starlink.
Video · Tech Desk
Neuralink's 50,000-hour brain model shortens calibration
Neuralink says pretraining on 50,000 hours of trial brain data shrank some users' calibration to 10 minutes a week and set an 11.32 bps cursor record.
ArchiveSpaceX Desk
Zelensky says Starlink limit is a planned operation
Zelensky says Starlink drops out above 161 km/h in Ukraine but worked at over 180 km/h in EU tests. On 17 October he called it a planned operation.
ArchiveSpaceX Desk
Reliance answers Musk: Starlink welcome in India
Reliance says it welcomes Starlink and that Jio's own satellite service also awaits clearance. Starlink says it's ready, days before Jio's 21 October IPO.
ArchiveSpaceX Desk
FAA opens review of SpaceX bid for 456 Starship launches
The FAA has begun an environmental review of SpaceX's plan for up to 456 Starship launches a year from Starbase. Public meetings run in November.
ArchiveSpaceX Desk
Starlink Starshield speed limit disrupts Ukraine's drones
Ukraine says Starshield terminals cut out above 160 km/h and drone missions were scrapped. Musk says the US military and the president set those limits.
ArchiveSpaceX Desk
SpaceX launches CRS-35 cargo with the last ISS solar arrays
SpaceX's CRS-35 Dragon lifted off on 13 October with more than 6,300 pounds of cargo, including the last new solar arrays for the space station.