Starfall rides. Compute locks. Shares go direct.
A capsule comes home on its second flight while the cloud runs out of compute.
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The Ælon Daily feed.
Daily signals across SpaceX, Tesla, xAI and Grok, Starlink, Neuralink, X, and the multiplanetary economy.
One stack flew. One stack docked. One stack spent.
Sunday's through-line: Tesla and SpaceX shared thrusters on a car that left the ground, Dragon closed a years-long power upgrade, and the week's story was the seams between the companies disappearing.
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Roadster flew. Dragon docked. The stack connected.
Thrusters on a Roadster, the last solar arrays on the Station, Ship 40 upright in a Megabay, and a Bot that spent real money with a company guarantee behind it.
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Roadster flies. Dragon docks. Cars fly.
The new Roadster drove upside down, flipped in the air and jumped a line of cars on SpaceX thrusters. Tesla clocked 0-60 in 0.81 seconds. CRS-35 docked with the final solar arrays.
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Roadster debuts. Dragon docks. Bot spends.
Elon calls tonight's Roadster demo a candidate for the greatest product demo of all time. CRS-35 docks at the Station around 11 a.m. ET with the final solar arrays. Grok Bot booked a real flight.
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CRS-35 flew. Ship 40 stands. Roadster is tomorrow.
Dragon launched for the Station and the booster landed at LZ-40. Ship 40 stands vertical at Starbase with the first flown heatshield data. The Roadster demo is one day away.
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Starlink up. CRS-35 on the pad. Bot remembers.
Falcon 9 put 27 Starlink satellites into orbit from California. CRS-35 is on the Florida pad for this morning. Grok Bot added memory transfer. Roadster is two days away.
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SDA flew. Grok Bot is in the Cybercab.
Falcon 9 launched the fourth Tranche 1 mission and stuck the landing. Grok Bot is now live in Cybercabs. Austin fleet passed 300 vehicles. Roadster is three days out.
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Starlink buys the spectrum. Carrier status unlocked.
SpaceX acquires nationwide low-band spectrum. Starlink Mobile aims to become a major US carrier. Crew-12 splashdown confirmed. Elon sees SpaceX worth orders of magnitude more than Earth’s economy.
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$40B for chips. Crew-12 comes home.
SpaceX is in talks for $40B to buy Nvidia chips. Crew-12 Dragon is headed for splashdown. SDA slips to Oct 10. Starlink adds Bangladesh mobile and Royal Air Maroc.
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StarMind. AI compute leaves Earth.
SpaceX outlines StarMind: AI compute satellites launching next year, filing for up to 1 million. Starlink runs ~1,000 collision-avoidance moves a day. Powershare Home Backup is live for Model 3/Y.
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Trillionaire again. SpaceX is the driver.
Musk is back over $1 trillion after SpaceX and Tesla rallied. Morgan Stanley called SpaceX cheap. SDA Tranche 1 slips to Thursday. Starlink offers 50% off near Starbase.
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Tomorrow morning
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