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Topic: SpaceX

Launching a rocket to space now costs 95% less than it did 65 yrs ago—and could get cheaper

A University of Cambridge study published in PNAS Nexus tracked more than 4,400 launches to explain why costs keep falling. SpaceX’s Starship could make them drop even more.

China’s reusable rocket didn’t land on its legs. It was caught in a net

Not only is this the first time a carrier rocket has been caught using the net system, it is also the first time China has recovered a rocket booster.

Plans to launch 1.7 million more satellites could be fatal to astronomy, says study

The study was published in Astronomy & Astrophysics in June by a researcher who has been working on ways to reduce the impact of satellites on astronomy.

The corporate sleight of hand behind X’s journey into SpaceX

Instead of returning X to public markets on its own merits, Elon Musk folded it into xAI and then SpaceX. The move raises questions about valuation, disclosure and the governance of founder-led corporate ecosystems.

Elon Musk effigy at Times Square says ‘Grok makes AI child porn’

SpaceX, a company worth 1.77 trillion dollars, revealed last month that it planned on going public under the ticker symbol SPCX.

Elon Musk is now a trillionaire. His wealth grew at a rate of over $1 million per minute

SpaceX announced its Nasdaq debut on Thursday in what is being described as the largest initial public offering in history, with shares set to begin trading on Friday.

Elon Musk’s Starlink says India freeze reports are ‘misleading’, talks with govt ongoing

Lauren Dreyer, VP of Business Ops at Starlink, posts on X that the organisation remains engaged in active and productive discussions with the Indian government.

SpaceX IPO can make Elon Musk a trillionaire. It reveals new info on the ‘secretive’ company

The 277-page prospectus, filed under ticker SPCX, reveals a massive corporate transition that combines space logistics with substantial artificial intelligence assets.

Starship V3 is the largest rocket ever built. Elon Musk is gearing up for SpaceX IPO

With the IPO likely next month, investors have their eyes on how Starship performs this time and what it means for SpaceX’s future ambitions.

Why OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceXAI are testing NVIDIA’s new Vera CPU

The next generations of AI are being built to work independently without human intervention. To do so, AI needs hardware that can keep up, too. This is where Vera steps in.

On Camera

PoK is fighting to escape the freedom Pakistan has imposed on it

What began as an assertion of citizenship has become the latest chapter in a struggle that stretches back to the Poonch rebellion of 1947.

Despite PM Modi’s appeal to cut fertiliser use, farmers show no sign of scaling back—Parliament data

Combined sales of urea, DAP, MOP and complex fertilisers rose 25 percent in April even as Modi asked farmers to cut chemical fertiliser use by up to half to save soil and foreign exchange

In Delhi, an emotional farewell to former Army chief Gen VN Sharma with full state honours

The three service chiefs paid tributes, along with several former Army chiefs. Friends & fellow soldiers remember him as a 'natural charmer'.

India’s Gen Z has opened a breach, for BJP to fill or Opposition to widen

The young people broke the self-imposed silence among the elite not to speak a word critical of the Modi government, except to whisper on the sidelines, looking left, right and behind.