Super Heavy Booster 22 rolled from the Starbase production site to Pad 2 overnight, setting up the static fire campaign that’s one of the last big ground tests before Starship Flight 15.
Today’s roundup: SpaceX, Tesla news from the past day, with links to full write-ups.
The same thruster-equipped Roadster Tesla showed at its Texas unveiling will sit in the Petersen Automotive Museum’s lobby in Los Angeles from Saturday, October 24 through Tuesday, October 27.
Tesla’s Austin Robotaxi geofence now reaches Circuit of the Americas, and ride requests run until 1 AM, just as the US Grand Prix arrives.
Bloomberg reports SpaceX is in talks, including with Crown Castle, to secure at least 80,000 US cell sites for a terrestrial network that could make Starlink Mobile a fourth national carrier.
SpaceX’s $40 billion debt raise, led by Apollo and Goldman Sachs, is being finalized at about 8.3% on its riskiest slice and around 7.75% on a chip-backed tranche, Semafor reports.
Today’s roundup: Tesla, SpaceX, Red Hat news from the past day, with links to full write-ups.
Red Hat opened its Asia Pacific AI Centre of Excellence in Singapore, backed by the Economic Development Board, and signed an MoU with Singapore’s Defence Science and Technology Agency.
The FCC approved SpaceX’s acquisition of three unpaired AWS-3 uplink licenses from Tristar License Group, covering 62 counties in eight states, for Starlink Mobile.
Politico reports SpaceX declined to bid on three National Security Space Launch missions and no other provider bid either, as SpaceX shifts from Falcon 9 to Starship.
