A Falcon 9 lifted off from California at 12:39 a.m. PT on Saturday with 21 Space Development Agency satellites, five days after the same mission was stopped by an auto abort in the final second of its countdown. The rocket flew from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base. SpaceX says it...

Tesla has a new mandatory tutorial for Tesla Assisted Driving, the European name for FSD Supervised, and the city it's driving through appears to be Berlin, where owners still can't switch the system on. Every owner has to sit through it. Tesla's Dutch support page lists four steps to turn the system on: tap Controls,...

Cybercab riders who ask Grok for their own Grok Bots are getting turned away for now, but a senior Tesla AI engineer says an upcoming software update will close that gap, and that he has been testing the fix every day. The complaint came from Tesla creator Dirty Tesla, who posted Thursday afternoon that "You...

Panama’s +Móvil has switched on Starlink Mobile satellite texting for free for all of its customers after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake hit the country on Friday, letting people send SMS from places where the cell network has gone quiet. Update: Starlink has gone a step further for people hit by the quake. On Friday evening...

Tesla has opened a new 8-stall Supercharger in Iași, Romania, and says the site was chosen by its own customers through the company's Supercharger voting program. The Tesla Charging account announced the site on X on Friday afternoon: "New Tesla Supercharger: Iași, Romania (8 stalls)Voting Winner Site 🏆 If there's a place where you've always...

Brazil's telecom regulator, ANATEL, has voted to approve Starlink Mobile's full 2 GHz access in the country, Starlink said on Friday afternoon. That opens mid-band spectrum for SpaceX's satellite-to-phone service in what is already Starlink's second-largest market. Starlink announced the decision on X at 2:49 p.m. PT: ANATEL just scored a huge win for the...

A Model Y on display at Tesla’s Chennai location. Image: Tesla India/X Tesla India has announced a new Experience Centre at Skymark One in Sector 98, Noida, its third sales location in the Delhi area. The company shared the news in a statement on October 9. The Noida site joins Tesla’s Experience Centre at Aerocity...

Venezuela's national telecom regulator Conatel said Friday it has legally authorized Starlink to operate across the country, granting SpaceX's local entity a general license and seven Ku-band spectrum concessions. In a statement published on its site, Conatel said its board approved Habilitación General HGTS-00639 and seven general concessions in the Ku band for SPACEX VZ,...

Image: @omg_fsd/X Tesla's official X account is hinting that a wider Cybercab release is coming. On Friday morning it posted "Floodgates are opening" on top of an owner's photo that shows four gold Cybercabs driving through Texas traffic together. The photo comes from Zach, who posts as @omg_fsd. He shared it Thursday evening with a...

Image: SpaceXAI SpaceXAI is giving Grok Bot its own email inboxes, with the official @bot account on X saying Friday morning that the feature is rolling out to users today and that you can claim one just by asking your Bot. The post went up at 10:16 a.m. PT and kept it short: “Rolling out...

[caption id="attachment_74122" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] A Starlink Mini dish on a home rooftop. Credit: Starlink/X[/caption] Elon Musk posted a mock open letter on X on Friday addressed to "Prime Minister Ambani," apologizing for not realizing he is "the real boss of India" and asking him to let Starlink compete in the country. Musk published the letter...

[caption id="attachment_74118" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Starship in orbit during Flight 14, its first orbital flight. Credit: SpaceX/X[/caption] Elon Musk said on X on Friday that a SpaceX valuation above $1,000 trillion is now among the company's possible outcomes, a scenario he says he previously didn't think was possible. Musk made the comment in a reply at...

[caption id="attachment_74109" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] A Powerwall 3 stands in a water-filled aquarium in Tesla Japan's flood demo. Credit: Tesla Japan/X[/caption] Tesla Japan has posted a video of a Powerwall 3 home battery standing in a water-filled aquarium to show off its flood rating, and Elon Musk reposted the clip to his followers on Friday morning....

[caption id="attachment_74106" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Giga Shanghai workers mark Tesla's 9 millionth vehicle in December 2025. Credit: Tesla Asia/X[/caption] Tesla's Giga Shanghai wholesaled 95,366 Model 3 and Model Y vehicles in September, its best month of 2026 so far, according to data released Friday by the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA). That's up 5% from 90,812...

[caption id="attachment_74103" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] The Starlink Wi-Fi switch on the flight deck of an airliner flying with the service. Credit: Starlink/X[/caption] Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said Friday that his airline's decision to pass on Starlink wasn't personal, telling CNBC's Squawk Box there's "no tit-for-tat" with Elon Musk and that he's a Starlink fan...