Elon Musk posted on October 7 that, going forward, SpaceX will use the best back-end model for each Grok Bot task, naming Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5, Midjourney, Suno and other leading APIs, "whatever is most likely to give you the best outcome." Anthropic already rents SpaceX compute; the post gave no routing rules, pricing or timeline.

Bloomberg reported on October 6 that NASA moon base program manager Carlos García-Galán said the agency is close to announcing bulk launch buys, possibly four or five rockets paired with commercial landers, for its roughly $30 billion Moon Base. SpaceX is reportedly limiting dedicated Falcon bookings beyond 2028; NASA has not announced the buys.

On October 6 Starlink’s space-safety update said it encountered about 650 unique maneuvering third-party satellites in 2026, with only about half sharing ephemeris, and saw about 164,000 conjunctions within four hours of an unannounced maneuver over six months.

On October 6 SpaceX VP Michael Nicolls said Starmind needs clusters of about 10 satellites in tight formation with about 10 Tbps between them, toward up to 1 million sats. That is SpaceX’s first formation-flying talk, framed as a hybrid of larger ~250 kW satellites and close-formation 10-sat clusters, with Mach33 math at sub-750 m proximity.

The Financial Times reported on October 6 that SpaceX is looking to raise about $40 billion to buy Nvidia chips in an Apollo-led debt package, roughly $10 billion in bank loans and $30 billion in investment-grade debt. Cheaper GPU-backed debt avoids diluting equity on a sum near 40% of SpaceX's war chest; SpaceX has not confirmed.

On October 6 the FCC granted-in-part SpaceX’s application for a new 15,000-satellite direct-to-device constellation at 326–335 km, with U.S. SCS/MSS on EchoStar spectrum and direct-to-cell abroad. U.S. operational authority waits until Step Two of the EchoStar deal closes; half the sats are due by October 7, 2032.

SpaceX's Starship barge You'll Thank Me Later, under tow by Signet Warhorse I, docked at the Port of Brownsville on October 5 after leaving Port Canaveral about six days earlier. Watchers say a Starlink V3 speedloader rolled to the port overnight, reportedly the first Starlink loading gear seen heading to Florida; no Super Heavy was ready to load.

SpaceX subsidiary Coastal Connect Services asked Florida regulators to approve a 32.4-mile gas pipeline to fuel Starship launches at Cape Canaveral, Reuters and Bloomberg reported on October 5. The unit told PSC staff each launch needs hundreds of LNG truckloads; staff recommended approving the 16-inch Brevard County line before an October 6 vote.

Anthropic is reportedly seeking to go public as soon as mid-November, Bloomberg reported on October 1, citing people familiar with the matter. The company could begin formal IPO marketing the week of November 9, putting it in line to start trading before Thanksgiving, though the people said the timeline could still shift.

Elon Musk said on October 1 that each SpaceX Star Mind spacecraft will have over 250 kW of solar power. In a reply to a quote post, he added he is cautiously optimistic SpaceX's version of the VR72 compute rack can run at close to 250 kW average power, with peak about 10% higher, and that it would apply to ground-based systems too.

Starlink introduced a Starlink for Communities program on October 1, per its website and a Sawyer Merritt post. A host sets up a Starlink Kit and neighbors buy hour, day, week or month passes. Hosts earn from every connection while Starlink handles payments and access. Payout rates and pass prices were not published.

SpaceX launched the NROL-97 mission on Falcon Heavy from Launch Complex 39A in Florida at 11:54 p.m. ET on October 1. It was the National Reconnaissance Office's first launch on a Falcon Heavy following 22 Falcon 9 missions for the agency. Both side boosters landed at Landing Zones 1 and 2. The payload is classified.

The FCC voted on September 30 to exclude the space activities it regulates from National Environmental Policy Act reviews, treating launch, deployment and spacecraft operations as not major federal actions. It also adopted an order to make more than 1,000 MHz of spectrum available for satellite services in the 12.7–13.25 GHz and 42–42.5 GHz bands.