Stories by Alex Diaz

Starlink posted a thread on Tuesday morning arguing that undisclosed satellite maneuvers by other operators are the biggest collision risk in low Earth orbit, and it's pushing the industry to share ephemeris data, predicted trajectories and planned maneuvers in the open. According to the thread, Starlink runs more than 11,000 satellites delivering broadband to millions...

Tesla is rolling out software update 2026.38.3 with two major additions, including Emergency Drive Away, which lets drivers shift into Drive while still plugged into a Supercharger, and Powershare Home Backup, which can add up to two days of home backup with a Model 3 or Model Y, or three days with a Cybertruck, when...

SpaceX has released a new visualization showing what its proposed Starmind constellation of one million AI satellites could look like, with spacecraft flying in tight formation clusters around the Earth. SpaceX vice president of Starlink engineering Michael Nicolls said Tuesday the company needs to "operate clusters of satellites in tight formation to get enough coherent...

SpaceX has released new video showing Starlink V3 satellites deploying into orbit from Starship, opening a series of posts from the official Starlink account on October 6 explaining how the company says it keeps the largest satellite constellation in history operating safely as traffic in low Earth orbit continues to grow. The footage shows satellites...

SpaceX's Crew-12 Dragon is set to undock from the International Space Station on Wednesday, October 7, bringing NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev back to Earth after nearly eight months in orbit. According to SpaceX's Crew-12 mission page, Dragon is targeted to undock autonomously at...

Tesla Korea says the Model Y closed out September as the best-selling vehicle of any kind in South Korea, its third straight month atop the country's overall sales chart, while Tesla stretched its lead as the top-selling imported brand to eight consecutive months. Tesla Korea shared the milestone in a post on Monday night, thanking...

Tesla wants commercial property owners to understand the math behind hosting a Supercharger. The company just published a new guide that breaks down a business utility bill and explains why busier charging sites end up costing less per kilowatt-hour to run. The guide, titled "How Higher Supercharger Site Utilization Increases Your Profits," is dated October...

Starlink is slashing Residential plan prices in half for people living in Texas's Cameron County area near SpaceX's Starbase headquarters, and the discount kicks in automatically for eligible addresses with no upfront hardware cost for new customers. Starlink announced the offer on October 5. It covers standard Residential service plans, and eligibility comes down to...

Tesla registrations in Germany shot up 268.7 percent in September to 12,552 vehicles, and over in France the Model Y finished the month as the best-selling car of any kind with 8,183 registrations, according to official data released Monday. The September press release from Germany's Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) shows Tesla at 12,552 new...

Elon Musk amplified the news that the Farmersville, California city council voted 4-1 to have Grok, the AI assistant from SpaceXAI, produce verbatim meeting minutes at a cost of $30 per month. The council voted on September 29 to use Grok to draft minutes from meeting recordings, with city clerk Rochelle Giovanni reviewing each draft...

Elon Musk is putting Starlink’s in-flight Wi-Fi on display after a passenger turned an empty exit row into a personal sports bar, streaming five live football games at once on a commercial flight. The moment started with sports announcer Chase Snyder, who posted the photo on Saturday, October 3, writing: “I’m very excited to announce […]

A Tesla Cybercab has been filmed arriving at what the poster calls a public Supercharger with no one inside, offering a look at how a single worker might handle charging for 10 robotaxis as Tesla works toward scaling its autonomous fleet. The 57-second video was posted on October 2 by X user Abhimanyu Yadav, who...

Elon Musk said overnight that his artificial intelligence company SpaceXAI will be renamed SpaceXSI, extending his push to replace the term “AI” with “SI,” short for superintelligence. In a series of posts on X in the early hours of Sunday morning, Musk wrote “No more AI,” followed by “SI” and the line “It's better.” He...

Elon Musk asked Tesla followers on Saturday, “How would you like your FSD?”, adding fuel to a viral discussion about whether buyers could eventually choose among more vehicle shapes while keeping Tesla’s Full Self-Driving technology at the centre of the experience. The post had reached about 4.8 million views, 13,000 likes, 3,700 replies and 1,200...

Update: Saturday, October 3 - Elon Musk has confirmed talks are underway with TSMC about a role in his $16.8 billion Terafab chip project in Texas. Responding to a post from Whole Mars Catalog about the reported discussions, Musk wrote: "Just discussions, but something may come of it." He stopped short of announcing a deal,...