Ars Technica
SpaceX wants to launch 456 Starships a year from Texas, Rocket Lab's Neutron slips to 2027, and a startup wants to sell you sunlight via 50,000 mirrors. What could go wrong?
The Verge
Tesla's long-promised Roadster finally flew, drove upside down, and hit 60mph in under a second - still no price, still no release date, still no car you can buy.
BBC World
SpaceX's 100mph Starlink speed cap disrupts Ukrainian drone missions, because nothing says 'support Ukraine' like a speed limit during a missile barrage.
TechCrunch
Musk calls Ambani India's 'real boss' as Starlink's launch stalls, Tesla sells 699 cars, and everyone waits for the same security assessment.
TechCrunch
Xona Space Systems is launching six satellites to offer a commercial GPS alternative with centimeter-level precision, because apparently free government signals just aren't cutting it.
NASA
NASA and SpaceX are launching 6,300 pounds of supplies, solar panels, and experiments to cure Alzheimer's, because multitasking is a thing.
SpaceNews
SpaceNews rolls out the red carpet for its 2026 Icon Awards finalists, because nothing says 'cosmic achievement' like a Dec. 1 gala in D.C. - and an Oct. 31 early bird deadline.
TechCrunch
Google's first orbital TPU is now in space, but its own white paper says Starship needs 1,800 launches in a decade - a rate it has never come close to - before orbital data centers make sense.
The Verge
Sam Altman says OpenAI won't IPO until it can make confident safety claims, a sentence with no deadline attached and one very recent hacking incident behind it.
Ars Technica
SpaceX aims to finally put Starship in orbit on September 22, because the 13 previous attempts were just a warm-up.
SpaceNews
SpaceX ditched the unicorn label via IPO, but a growing herd of private space firms still flaunts $1 billion-plus valuations, because orbit is the new status symbol.
TechCrunch
Tesla says the second-gen Roadster will be unveiled October 1, only eight years after it was announced, with production still 12-18 months away.
Ars Technica
Satellite servicing company Astroscale bets on a rocket that just reached orbit for the first time, because apparently that's what passes for 'proven' these days.
Ars Technica
Europe's space sector finally gets a CEO who admits the continent is embarrassingly behind - and has the audacity to do something about it.
TechCrunch
Why build ultra-clean rooms on Earth when you can just borrow a rocket that's already going up and coming back?
TechCrunch
The Exploration Company raises a record $450 million to build a reusable European space launcher, because apparently one SpaceX monopoly wasn't enough.
Ars Technica
Rockets are blowing up, not launching, or finally launching on time - plus a NASA telescope that got to space without drama.
The Guardian Europe
A SpaceX rocket part punches a hole in the moon, and an aerospace professor calls it a receipt for our hubris, not a light show.
TechCrunch
Musk's plan to cast gas turbine blades in-house could speed up AI's power supply - but at what cost to public health and the environment?
The Guardian
NASA's $4.3B Roman telescope finally launches after surviving Trump's budget cuts, ready to find exoplanets and dark matter - if Florida weather cooperates.
The Good Times
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