With six days remaining before liftoff, the spacecraft set to carry four astronauts to the International Space Station has now arrived at the launch pad at Cape Canaveral. SpaceX announced Thursday that its Crew-13 Dragon spacecraft has reached pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The company shared NASA photos showing the...

Starlink will double peak download speeds for maritime customers using its $2,000 Performance Gen 3 terminal by the end of December, bringing shipboard throughput close to 1 Gbps. The speed increase was revealed in a message Starlink sent to enterprise customers Thursday morning. The company said maritime users on Performance Gen 3 hardware will receive...

After nine years of delays since its 2017 reveal, Tesla's Class 8 electric truck finally has a dedicated factory. On Thursday night in Sparks, Nevada, the Semi moved from pilot builds to high-volume production. Tesla announced that the Semi has entered high-volume production at its first dedicated Semi factory, a 1.8-million-square-foot plant in Sparks designed...

Three flags, one Dragon, and an International Space Station waiting for its next crew. NASA is already planning the next chapter of its long-running partnership with SpaceX. The announcement came Thursday, when NASA named the four astronauts who will fly the SpaceX Crew-14 mission to the International Space Station, with liftoff targeted no earlier than...

Update (October 8, 2026): Banglalink's Starlink service is now commercially live. Starlink announced on Wednesday that Starlink Mobile is available in Bangladesh through Banglalink, letting customers message over apps, share their location and stay connected on compatible phones in cellular dead zones. In its launch press release, Banglalink said customers need only a 4G phone...

Prime Minister Mark Carney told the New York Times in an interview published Wednesday that Canada will reduce its reliance on Starlink, the satellite internet service operated by Elon Musk's SpaceX, saying, "Starlink, we will diversify away from, no question." The prime minister described the move as part of a broader effort to reduce Canada's...

Vietjet has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Starlink to bring free, high-speed Wi-Fi to its passengers, formalizing a collaboration that was first teased earlier this week. The agreement was exchanged in New York on Wednesday, September 23, in the presence of Vietnam's President To Lam and senior business leaders from both countries, Vietnam's state...

Elon Musk said Wednesday that SpaceXAI's Grok @Bot is getting a major set of new features, including voice calls, a 1Password vault, inline forms and inline drafts for email and Slack. Grok @Bot is SpaceXAI's assistant that lives inside X, where anyone can summon it from posts and direct messages to answer questions, draft text...

Airtel Uganda has launched Airtel Starlink, a satellite connectivity service designed to keep phones connected outside the reach of traditional cell towers. Announced in a post on X on September 24, the service is available to customers who opt in through the MyAirtel App, with 30 days free until October 23. The carrier describes Airtel...

Google will launch a prototype satellite carrying its AI chips into orbit next week aboard a SpaceX Transporter-18 rideshare mission, marking the first in-space test of its Project Suncatcher moonshot to build AI data centers in orbit. Announced last year, Project Suncatcher is a long-term research effort exploring whether low Earth orbit could support scalable...

Belgian road-safety group Johanna.be says Tesla's Full Self-Driving software exceeded speed limits throughout much of its three-day test program around Brussels, violating local rules in 55% of the 30 km/h road segments it examined. The group tested FSD Supervised across roughly 400 kilometres of Belgian roads in July, with a focus on 30 km/h zones,...

Tesla says it has now delivered 15,000 vehicles in Ireland, reaching the milestone roughly a decade after entering the market, with new registrations running 21% ahead of last year. The company said Wednesday that it has registered more than 2,729 vehicles in Ireland so far in 2026, already nearing the 2,769 vehicles it delivered for...

Elon Musk says SpaceX will reach "pole position" in AI within about six months if its current pace of development continues, pushing back against a critic who claimed the company had already fallen behind in the AI race. The exchange took place Thursday morning after Musk said he was "cautiously optimistic" that SpaceX will have...

An overnight fire at Exatel's Starlink uplink station in Wola Krobowska, Poland, was an act of sabotage, digital minister Krzysztof Gawkowski said Thursday. Speaking to TVP Info, the minister said the fire was intended to disrupt a station he described as vital to the security and continuity of internet services in Ukraine, according to Politico...

Elon Musk called Chinese President Xi Jinping a "great leader" in interviews with Chinese state media Wednesday, one day before he is expected to join tech executives at a White House state dinner for Xi and President Donald Trump. Speaking to CGTN, Musk said China had "prospered immensely" under Xi's tenure, adding that he had...