Tracking the companies building the path to Mars: SpaceX, Starship, Tesla, xAI and more.

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Joined October 2026
🚨 ELON MUSK AND HIS MOM SHARE A SWEET MOMENT Elon Musk and his mother Maye Musk exchanged “I love you” and shared a big hug on stage. Maye said she was excited for her Mother’s Day gift. Elon joked that he hoped it wasn’t Dogecoin. She confirmed that it was, and they both laughed.
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ELON MUSK ON THE FUTURE OF WORK Elon Musk said there will come a point where no job is needed. You can still have a job if you want one for personal satisfaction. But AI will be able to do everything.
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ELON MUSK ON HIS EARLY TWITTER DAYS Elon Musk said he had one of the very first Twitter accounts when the platform had less than 10,000 users. People were tweeting about their Starbucks lattes and he thought it was the silliest thing ever, so he deleted his account. Someone else took the username and started tweeting crazy things in his name. Friends told him he should use Twitter to get his own message out. So he decided if someone was going to tweet crazy stuff in his name, he would do it himself. He admitted his early tweets were already pretty wild and the level of insanity hasn’t changed much since then. He just uses it for fun.
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🚨 ELON MUSK SAYS NEXT BIG AI LEAP WILL COME FROM THE PHYSICAL WORLD Elon Musk just explained where the real breakthrough in superintelligence will happen. It will not come from software alone. The next major leap will come from the physical world. SpaceX and Tesla have massive amounts of real-world engineering data that can make AI truly exceptional at solving actual physical problems. While Anthropic has made AI great at software engineering, no one has yet mastered AI excellence in the physical world. Elon and his companies are perfectly positioned to lead this next revolution.
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🚨 U.S. AIR FORCE TO EQUIP ENTIRE FLEET OF 222 C-17 JETS WITH SPACEX STARSHIELD SpaceX’s Starshield is expanding rapidly into the U.S. military. Boeing has already installed it on 9 C-17 Globemaster aircraft at Port San Antonio. Two contracts worth $13.5 million will add 19 more jets by March 2027. The plan is to equip the full fleet of 222 cargo aircraft. This gives America’s military secure high-performance satellite communications when it matters most. Elon Musk and SpaceX continue strengthening U.S. defense capabilities.
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🚨 STARSHIP IS JUST 2 TO 3 YEARS AWAY FROM HOURLY FLIGHTS Elon Musk just dropped a huge update on Starship's future. Starship is 2 to 3 years away from flying like an airliner with hourly launches. The Super Heavy booster for Flight 15 just completed its full-duration 33-engine static fire. This level of rapid reusability is exactly what will make Starship the backbone of humanity's multiplanetary future. Elon and SpaceX are moving incredibly fast.
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ELON MUSK’S ADVICE TO ENGINEERS Elon Musk said if you study engineering and learn how to design new things, starting a company becomes much easier than most people think. He advised finding like-minded people, building a strong prototype as fast as you can, and getting the funding to make it real. And if your first try fails, just try again. You’re not going to starve. What’s the worst that could happen?
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🚨 ELON MUSK SPEAKS OUT STRONGLY AGAINST WAR Elon Musk has always been a strong opponent of armed conflict. Lots of people dying for basically almost no changes in land. Young boys who don't know each other killing each other on behalf of old men who do know each other. There are lots of sons not coming back to their parents. Most of them don't even hate the other side. Elon sees the human cost clearly and calls it out for what it is.
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GROK BOT JUST GOT A BIG SPEED UPGRADE Grok Bot received a major performance boost. Computer tasks now run about 3 times faster on average. Replies come in less than half the previous time. Voice calls got better memory and smoother flow. It also added direct access to X Chat messages and the ability to tag @bot. The whole agent platform keeps getting cleaner, smarter, and more useful every day.
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🚨 ELON MUSK ON MAKING LIFE MULTIPLANETARY Elon Musk believes we should use 1% of our total effort to make life multiplanetary. He said 99% of our focus should stay on Earth but it makes sense to work on building a self sustaining city on Mars. One reason is to protect against unknown disasters or extinction events like what happened to the dinosaurs. The other is the pure excitement and inspiration it would bring to humanity.
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🚨 STARLINK V3 BRINGS 100 TIMES MORE BANDWIDTH Elon Musk confirmed Starlink V3 will deliver roughly 100 times more bandwidth than the current V2 system. Each V3 satellite provides about 1 Tbps of downlink, around 10 times a V2. Uplink reaches about 160 Gbps. V3 satellites have already started launching. One Starship can add roughly 60 Tbps of new capacity. The lower orbit should also cut latency. The goal is faster and more reliable internet for millions more people.
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🚨 ELON MUSK SAYS UKRAINE NEEDS A NEW LEADER TO STOP THE KILLING Elon Musk warned about this years ago. He was right then and he is right now. The flower of Ukrainian and Russian youth is being lost to this war. It is time to end the slaughter and put a new leader in place who will actually pursue peace.
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ELON MUSK ON WHY HE BARELY PLAYED GTA Elon Musk said he only played a little bit of GTA because he did not like that you basically have to kill police to progress in the game. He explained he just does not want to do that. Killing the NPCs is not his thing.
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TESLA STARTS BUILDING OPTIMUS AT FREMONT Tesla has begun making production quality Optimus robots on its high volume line in Fremont, California. They converted the old Model S and X assembly area in just 46 days. The line is designed for up to 1 million units a year once fully ramped. Elon wants 20,000 robots per week within about a year. Customer deliveries are expected toward the end of 2027 while Tesla keeps improving the design and AI.
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ELON MUSK ON CATCHING THE BOOSTER Elon Musk said people thought he was crazy when he first proposed catching the Starship booster with the tower arms. He explained it is better to move the mass to the ground side, so they removed the legs from the booster and let the tower catch it instead. He admitted it sounds insane, but he thinks they will get it right after a few attempts. He also described the difficulty of stacking the booster and ship with precision in high winds at Starbase.
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ELON MUSK CALLS FOR PEACE Elon Musk keeps pushing the same clear message: the killing must stop. He has no respect for the warmongers and war profiteers who want the conflict to continue forever. He said it is time for the slaughter of young men to end and for peace to begin.
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NEURALINK VISION IMPLANTS COMING SOON Elon Musk said Neuralink will do its first vision implants in the next 6 to 12 months. Even if someone is completely blind from birth, they can write directly to the visual cortex so the person can see. Long term, it could give high resolution vision plus the ability to see in infrared, ultraviolet, and radar. Basically superpowers.
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🚨 ELON MUSK HATES POLITICS BUT STEPPED IN ANYWAY I actually don't like politics at all. I hate politics. I just like building stuff. I like making products people love, and that's what I normally like doing. When a builder who hates politics is forced to step into the political arena, you know the stakes for the future of civilization couldn’t be higher. Elon would rather focus on rockets, cars, and AI, but the threats to freedom and innovation left him no choice. This is the kind of leader the world needs right now.
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🚨 AER LINGUS NOW OFFERS STARLINK WI-FI ON ALL U.S. ROUTES Aer Lingus has equipped its entire A321LR, A321XLR, and A330-300 fleets with Starlink. Passengers flying across the Atlantic now get free high-speed internet to stream, work, and stay connected the whole flight. Starlink keeps rolling out fast as more airlines realize it is the best in-flight connectivity option available. Elon Musk and SpaceX are making reliable high-speed internet in the sky the new standard.
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PETER DIAMANDIS GETS GROK TO ROAST ELON MUSK Peter Diamandis asked Grok to roast him first and said it did an amazing job. Then he asked Grok to roast Elon and spit out his coffee from how funny it was. Elon Musk replied with a perfect line. Just keep telling it to be more vulgar until it's like mother of God. This is the fun side of Elon and Grok that shows how real and entertaining the whole thing is.
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