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SpaceX is a private American aerospace company founded by Elon Musk, building Falcon 9 and Starship rockets and operating the Starlink satellite network.
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Ukrainian officials say SpaceX cut Starshield service to any drone or vehicle moving faster than 160 km/h this week. Musk says the U.S. government controls Starshield, while Trump says it was not him and he does not think it was Musk.
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Tesla is expected to unveil the redesigned Roadster on 15 October 2026 at a SpaceX site in Texas, six years after the 2020 deliveries it promised. Musk's range and acceleration claims have yet to be shown in a production-ready car, so the figures Tesla commits to are the test.
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Musk proposed the Oct. 14 Starlink speed cap on Ukrainian forces to Trump, the Telegraph reports, citing four sources. Musk had said on X that the U.S. government decides any limits, and SpaceX applied the cap without warning Kyiv.
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Reuters reports, citing U.S. and Western officials, that the Oct. 14 Starlink slowdown on Ukraine's military was ordered from inside the White House. A senior U.S. official denied it came from Trump; no one has named who issued it.
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Ukraine's military can use Starshield on the move again, a Defense Ministry source says, after a speed limit disrupted drone missions. The cause is unexplained, and officials are in talks with SpaceX and its partners to find it.
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SpaceX imposed a speed limit on Starlink terminals mounted on Ukrainian drones overnight, Zelenskyy adviser Serhii Beskrestnov said Wednesday. SpaceX and the White House did not immediately comment, so the political motive he alleges rests on his word alone.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk said a thruster-equipped Roadster shown at a SpaceX test site in Texas will go into production in 2028. He also said the vehicle's success is not guaranteed, and the date stays a claim until a price or a filing backs it.
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Ukrainian commanders report lost drones and failed missions after a one-day Starshield restriction, Fast Company reported. Elon Musk said this week that decisions about the system's use rest with the U.S. military and, ultimately, the president.
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Blue Origin will spend $330 million on a Cape Canaveral expansion due in summer 2027 that will let it build up to 150 New Glenn upper stages a year. Two flights a week would be 104 launches a year, 63% of the 165 Falcon missions SpaceX flew last year.
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Presidential adviser Serhii Beskrestnov said on Oct. 14 that SpaceX capped Starlink's StarShield military service package at 100 mph on moving terminals. A Defense Ministry source says the cause is under investigation.
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SpaceX closed its Nasdaq debut on Friday, June 12, 2026, at $161.11 after opening just above $150, up nearly 20% on the largest IPO in stock market history. At that close, the shares SpaceX sold were worth about $14.5 billion more than it collected.
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SpaceX's Grain spectrum purchase, put at nearly $8 billion by a source, is under a tenth of the more than $80 billion TD Cowen says a mobile network would cost. The build would draw on the same cash as Starship, AI infrastructure and the Terafab chip factory.
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Harvard's endowment returned 27.1% in fiscal 2026 and reached a record $68 billion, up from $57 billion. The disclosed SpaceX and Cerebras positions total about 3.6% of the fund, so they cannot account for the whole lead over the median.
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Starlink is encouraging every satellite operator to share maneuvers ahead of time, citing around 164,000 near-miss events in six months. It calls Stargaze free to all operators, though DatacenterDynamics describes the map behind it as proprietary.
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Anthropic told investors its third-quarter revenue reached $16.8 billion and that it turned a profit, the Financial Times reported. At up to $2 trillion, that quarter annualized puts the listing near 30 times sales.
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Anthropic will show institutional investors its first third-quarter financials on Wednesday, ahead of a listing that could be valued near $2 trillion. Whether they move chip stocks, as OpenAI's did last week, depends on how partner revenue is counted.
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New Constructs puts Anthropic's equity at as little as $144bn, 93% below the $2tn it is reportedly targeting for its IPO. That is its lowest scenario, built from reports of leaked financials because the prospectus was filed confidentially.
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Ukraine's defence adviser Serhiy Beskrestnov says an unannounced 100 mph speed cap on Starshield's military package caused several missions to fail. Accounts of who imposed it conflict, so supplier risk and political risk cannot yet be separated.
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SpaceX's CRS-35 cargo Dragon is scheduled to dock with the ISS around 11 a.m. EDT on Oct. 15 with more than 6,000 pounds of food, research and hardware. Space.com's preview says the supplies are mainly for the four astronauts of Crew-13.
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