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SpaceX says Ship 42 finished a full six-engine static fire and a single-engine deorbit-burn test, so both Flight 15 stages are done on the stand ahead of a two-stage catch attempt. Florida, meanwhile, pauses Falcon 9 for six weeks to get Pad 39A ready for Starship.

SpaceX told the FAA it expects to fly 10,000 launches a year on its own and that outdated airspace rules are the bottleneck. Musk says that number is just Starbase Louisiana, which is designed for about 30 launches and reentries a day.

Anthropic's S-1 says it agreed to spend up to $120.5 billion on SpaceX compute through 2029, about $3.1 billion a month once all capacity arrives in December. The same day, SpaceX filed the details of its $40 billion Vera Rubin GPU lease with an Apollo-managed entity.

Elon Musk says SpaceX has closed $40 billion of debt to buy GPUs, mostly callable debt for chips arriving in Q1 and Q2 2027. He credits Starlink and launch revenue for keeping lenders on board while, in his words, more than 200 neoclouds face 'guppy-level death and consolidation.'

At its Artemis Acceleration briefing on Oct. 23, NASA released the first images of Cabin 1, the crew cabin of SpaceX's Starship lunar lander, plus a milestone list running to a 2028 landing. Officials said the tanker count should land nearer the high single digits.

SpaceX Super Intelligence launched its Partner Network for companies building and deploying Grok. More than 130 companies joined early access, including Bain, Nvidia, Databricks, Snowflake, MongoDB and NTT DATA, and Tech Mahindra signed a separate Grok Build deal.

Musk says Tesla and SpaceX have each formed special committees of independent directors to weigh a merger. He likes the idea, but no terms are agreed and Tesla would need 50% of all shares.

Flight 15 will try to catch both Starship stages next month, weekly flights are targeted for the first half of 2027, Starlink hit 13.6 million users and SpaceX guided $33-37 billion in Q1 2027 revenue.

Elon Musk says he'll give one of his SpaceX shares to every kid in America next year. At Friday's close, that's about $10.5 billion, and he says it's only the first of many.

Gwynne Shotwell reportedly followed Tesla on X, and execs at both companies followed each other. Here's what analysts and prediction markets say about a Tesla-SpaceX merger.