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World & Business
AFpost, citing a Zelenskyy adviser, says SpaceX imposed the surprise restriction on terminals used by Ukrainian drone operators.
World & Business
Reuters reports Ukraine says SpaceX's limits disrupt military missions; Starlink terminals are vital for guiding longer-range drone strikes.
Technology
Reuters reports a Ukrainian adviser said military-grade Starlink was limited above 160 km/h; a military unit reported canceled missions.
Science
Space.com reports it was Falcon 9’s first Starlink mission since September 19.
Science
Space.com said the mission would send more than 3 tons of cargo toward the station.
Science
NASASpaceflight reported liftoff from Vandenberg's SLC-4E, followed by stage separation and a booster touchdown at LZ-4E.
Science
A post says the Starship was being unloaded October 9, after landing in the Indian Ocean in July.
World & Business
CNBC reports SpaceX agreed to buy a nationwide spectrum portfolio as it pushes Starlink deeper into U.S. telecommunications.
Technology
A post relaying SpaceX's announcement says 800 MHz spectrum could improve indoor coverage; the agreement still needs FCC approval.
Science
NASA said live coverage would continue as Crew-12 and its SpaceX Dragon spacecraft were retrieved from the Pacific.
Science
NASASpaceflight called the North Stand test its second-longest firing, behind only a run-to-failure test.
AI
Elon Musk said Grok Bot will use “the best back end model for any given task,” naming Claude Opus 5.5, MidJourney, Suno and other APIs in a future-facing plan rather than a confirmed live rollout.
Technology
In a supplied X post, BGR said both engines are used for SpaceX launch missions but highlighted differences between how they operate and how they can be reused.
World & Business
The Financial Times describes the debt deal as a sign of vast spending on chips and other AI infrastructure.
Technology
BGR said SpaceX’s launch total keeps climbing beyond the astronaut missions and Starship tests that draw most of the attention, including a booster it said recently flew for a 37th time.
Technology
A BGR post on X says SpaceX still has plenty of work for a rocket Elon Musk wants to retire, and suggests that plan may take years to play out.
Technology
Supplied post captures show Zeteo relaying Alex Gibney’s claim that Musk was an early Tesla investor, not its founder, while a reply argues that framing should not be extended to SpaceX.
Technology
Reuters reports the planned name change follows Trump’s push to call AI “super intelligence”; Musk gave no timeline.
Science
Supplied social posts claim SpaceX logged four booster landings in under 13 hours, describe a roughly 33-day Falcon Heavy booster turnaround, and say Crew-13 reached the station 7 hours 55 minutes after liftoff.
Science
SpaceX said Falcon 9 had an auto abort just prior to T-0 during Monday morning’s launch attempt for the Space Development Agency’s fourth Tranche 1 data transport mission from California. The company said the vehicle and payload were in good health and were resetting for another attempt no earlier than Oct. 6.
Technology
Space.com reports the four astronauts docked in under eight hours; a user claimed the Starlink Mini price cut.
Science
SpaceX said Falcon Heavy launched the NROL-97 mission from Kennedy Space Center at 11:54 p.m. ET on Oct. 1, with the mission page separately listing 03:53 GMT+0 on Oct. 2. SpaceX said both side boosters landed at Cape Canaveral, while prelaunch public listings described the center core as expended.
Technology
SpaceX launched NROL-97 at 11:54 p.m. ET on Oct. 1 from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Spaceflight Now described it as a classified mission for the National Reconnaissance Office, and both SpaceX and Spaceflight Now said it was the NRO’s first mission aboard Falcon Heavy.
Science
A teacher says students watching a live SpaceX crewed launch were especially surprised by the booster landing.
Technology
NASA's SpaceX Crew-13 mission launched Oct 1 from Cape Canaveral carrying commander Jessica Watkins, pilot Luke Delaney, CSA's Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos' Sergey Teteryatnikov. Targeted for ~7-hour launch-to-docking to ISS.
Science
NASA said Crew-13’s Dragon reached the International Space Station at 7:05 p.m. EDT on Oct. 1, 2026, after a 7-hour, 55-minute launch-to-docking interval that the agency said was the fastest for a U.S. spacecraft in ISS history.
Technology
CNBC reported that SpaceX's Transporter-18 mission was set to carry Planet Labs satellites, including a solar-powered prototype equipped with Google's tensor processing units.
Science
Spaceflight Now’s launch coverage said the Falcon 9 used booster B1082 on its 25th flight, and NASASpaceflight posted that the booster touched down back at Vandenberg’s LZ-4.
Technology
Starlink shared views from one of the satellites and thanked SpaceX for the ride.
Science
SpaceX shared video of the Super Heavy liftoff and said 33 Raptor 3 engines powered it.
SpaceX
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